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NYC – Bronx – New York Botanical Garden – 2007 Holiday Train Show – Luna Park Arch & Ticket Booth
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The 17th Annual Holiday Train Show, on display in the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory from November 23, 2007 to January 13, 2007, presents a winter wonderland twinkling lights and sixteen model trains, including the Union Pacific, New York Central, and Great Northern Railway, zipping along over bridges and on 1,000 feet of winding tracks past scaled replicas of New York landmarks made by award-winning designer Paul Busse and his team of landscape designers and botanical architects at Applied Imagination in Alexandria, Lentucky. Orange slices, cinnamon sticks, poppy pods, pine cones, twigs and other plant parts make a festive brew as the materials used to create the more than 140 architectural reproductions. Returning favorites like the Empire State Building, the Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral were joined by 2007′s new additions–Ellis Island and the George Washington Bridge.
Luna Park, the brainchild of Elmer "Skip" Dundy and Frederic Thompson, was a 22-acre amusement park in Coney Island, illuminated by thousands of lights, at the turn of the 20th century. A pair of fires in 1944 severely damaged the park and it never reopened.
from 1903 to 1944.
The Garden’s recreation of the park shines with thousands of tiny seeds. The Ticket Booth and Arch use cinammon sticks, grapevine tendrils, gourds, eucalytpus root, and basket jute. The Central Tower is adorned with tree branch slices, star-anise, walnut shells, dried orange slices, rose petals and various seeds and gourds.
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The New York Botanical Garden, spanning some 250 acres of Bronx Park, was founded in 1891 on part of the grounds of the Belmont Estate, formerly owned by the tobacco magnate Pierre Lorillard, after a fund-raising campaign led by Columbia University botanist Nathaniel Lord Britton, who was inspired to emulate the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. It contains 48 different gardens and plant collections.
Cypress Gardens – Botanical Garden
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A scene in the Botanical Garden of Cypress Gardens. Two cedar of Lebanon trees are at top right, and crotons at bottom left.
Brooklyn botanical gardens
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the falling leaves of the Cherry trees at the brooklyn botanical gardens
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Jardim Botânico de Curitiba / Curitiba’s Botanical Garden
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O Jardim Botânico de Curitiba ou Jardim Botânico Francisca Maria Garfunkel Richbieter é um dos principais pontos turísticos da cidade de Curitiba, capital do estado brasileiro de Paraná. Localiza-se no bairro Jardim Botânico. Em 2007 foi o monumento mais votado numa eleição para escolha das Sete Maravilhas do Brasil, promovido pelo site Mapa-Mundi.
Inaugurado em 5 de outubro de 1991, o jardim contém inúmeros exemplares vegetais do Brasil e de outros países, espalhados por alamedas e estufas de ferro e vidro, a principal delas inspirada no Palácio de Cristal de Londres.
O projeto é do arquiteto Abrão Assad, que também planejou o Museu Botânico, com auditório, centro de pesquisas, espaço para biblioteca especializada e sala de exposições temporárias e permanentes. Atualmente o Museu Botânico de Curitiba tem o quarto maior herbário do país.
Atrás dessa estufa está situado o Espaço Cultural Frans Krajberg, com a exposição permanente "A Revolta", de obras do artista polonês naturalizado brasileiro Frans Krajcberg. O nome "A Revolta" expressa o sentimento do artista com relação à destruição sem limites provocada pelo homem nas florestas brasileiras. Nessa galeria estão expostas 110 obras de grande porte, todas elas feitas a partir de restos de árvores queimadas ou derrubadas de forma ilegal. Há também exposição de fotos tiradas pelo próprio escultor, venda de livros relacionados ao artista e a possibilidade de visitas monitoradas. A principal finalidade do espaço é, de acordo com Krajcberg, a conscientização ambiental.
Todo o Jardim Botânico possui uma área total de 278 mil metros quadrados, incluindo o bosque com mata atlântica preservada. Localiza-se na rua Ostoja Roguski (Primeira Perimetral dos Bairros) – Bairro Jardim Botânico.
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The Jardim Botânico de Curitiba, in Portuguese, or the Botanical Garden of Curitiba, in English, is also known as the "Jardim Botânico Fanchette Rischbieter". This is a park located in the city of Curitiba, the capital of the state of Paraná, and the biggest city in southern Brazil. It is the major tourist attraction of the city, and it houses part of the campus of the Federal University of Paraná. The international identification code is CURIT.
Opened in 1991, Curitiba’s trademark botanical garden was created in the style of French gardens. Once the portal of entry, may be seen extensive gardens in the French style in the midst of fountains, waterfalls and lakes, and the main greenhouse of 458 square meters, which shelters in its interior, copies plants characteristic of tropical regions. It rolls out its carpet of flowers to the visitors right at the entrance. This occupies 240.000 m² in area. The principal greenhouse, in an art nouveau style with a modern metallic structure, resembles the the mid-19th century Crystal Palace in London. The Botanic Museum, which provides a national reference collection of native flora, attracts researchers from all over the world. It includes many botanic species from the moist Atlantic Forests of eastern Brazil.
The native forest is filled with paths for strolling. Behind the greenhouse is the Museum of Franz Krajcberg, the Polish Brazilian artist who took up the cause of environmental conservation; with 1,320 square meters of area, divided into multimedia classrooms, an auditorium with 60 seats and lounge with several exhibitions of works donated by visual artist, represented by sculptures and reliefs, as well as photographs, videos, publications and educational materials.
In the other side is the Botanical Museum, a wooden building which entrance using a bridge made of wood also. Actually, the Botanical Museum of Curitiba has the fourth largest herbarium in the country. In front of the construction there is a pond with carp, turtles, teal, herons, etc, and offers a lake, an auditorium, a library, an expositions area, a theatre, tennis courts and a cycle track.
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From the Desert Botanical Gardens Exhibit of Dale Chiluli Glass in Nature
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