From the Library: Palm House, March 1942

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March 16, 2011

Moving palm trees in the Conservatory

The rearranging of palm trees underway in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory—sixty-nine years ago this month. A little right…a little left…perfect! From The New York Botanical Garden’s archival photographs, in the collections of The LuEsther T. Mertz Library.

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