Bennington Flower Show

From: Richard Lutz <rflutz at sover.net> on 1997.11.22 at 23:53:43(1650) The New England Tropical Conservatory and the Southwest Vermont Career Development Center will be hosting a Tropical Flower Show March 20 and 21, 1998 in Bennington Vermont. This year the show will feature Aroids. If you would like to be an exhibitor please contact Dick Lutz at rflutz@sover.net . Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical Garden has supplied us with approximately 200 aroid species for the show. These plants will eventually become part of the collection in the New England Tropical Conservatory.

From: Don Burns <burns at mobot.org> on 1997.11.23 at 04:23:32(1654) Richard, Does the NETC have a web site? Tom Croat mentioned you in a note to me several days ago, and I looked for a web site, but no cigar. That Tom is supplying you with these plants is a big compliment. Good luck with your new aroid collection! Don +More Don Burns Plantation, FL USA Zone 10b

From: rflutz at sover.net (Richard F. Lutz) on 1997.11.23 at 22:36:27(1655) Don At the present time the NETC does not have a web site. Their collection is being housed in the local Vo -tech greenhouse of which I am the Horticulture instructor. We had Tom Visit us last year at our first tropical flower show. This year we are putting an exhibit in the New England FLower Show. They get 175,000 people a year to visit that show. We will also have the plants in our second annual show March 21. The NETC is currently going through a site ananlysis and will present it to the Zoning commission in January. We how to have the first stages of our 35 million dollar conservatory under way in 4 years. This spring the first of the research houses should be going up if all goes well. The executive director of the NETC has been a collector for Tom in the past. They have done a lot of collaborative things together in the past. Dick Lutz

From: sacorreia at juno.com (Sylvia A Correia) on 1998.02.13 at 02:56:28(1915) Greetings: Where is the New England Tropical Conservatory going to be and please tell me nore about it. How long has the Tropical Flower Show been in existence? Sylvia Correia +More sacorreia@juno.com zone 6-southeastern CT,USA On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 17:53:46 -0600 Richard Lutz writes: >The New England Tropical Conservatory and the Southwest >Vermont Career Development Center will be hosting a Tropical >Flower Show March 20 and 21, 1998 in Bennington Vermont. >This year the show will feature Aroids. If you would like >to be an exhibitor please contact Dick Lutz at >rflutz@sover.net . Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical >Garden has supplied us with approximately 200 aroid species >for the show. These plants will eventually become part of >the collection in the New England Tropical Conservatory. > > _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

From: Tom Croat <croat at mobot.org> on 1998.02.13 at 14:45:42(1916) Dear Sylvia: I thought that the New England show was going to be held in Boston, not in Bennington but contact Dick Lutz, who's e-mail you have because he will know for sure. I believe that the NETC is merely going to contribute a display at this big annual show in Boston this year. I could be wrong. Let me know what you find out. Tom Croat +More > > Greetings: Where is the New England Tropical Conservatory going to be > and please tell me nore about it. How long has the Tropical Flower > Show been in existence? > > Sylvia Correia > sacorreia@juno.com > zone 6-southeastern CT,USA > > On Sat, 22 Nov 1997 17:53:46 -0600 Richard Lutz > writes: > >The New England Tropical Conservatory and the Southwest > >Vermont Career Development Center will be hosting a Tropical > >Flower Show March 20 and 21, 1998 in Bennington Vermont. > >This year the show will feature Aroids. If you would like > >to be an exhibitor please contact Dick Lutz at > >rflutz@sover.net . Tom Croat of the Missouri Botanical > >Garden has supplied us with approximately 200 aroid species > >for the show. These plants will eventually become part of > >the collection in the New England Tropical Conservatory. > > > > > > _____________________________________________________________________ > You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. > Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com > Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] > > > -- Thomas B. Croat, Ph.D. P.A. Schulz Curator of Botany Missouri Botanical Garden P.O. Box 299 St. Louis, MO 63166-0299 phone: 314-577-5163; fax 314-577-9596; email croat@mobot.org

From: rflutz at sover.net (Richard F. Lutz) on 1998.02.13 at 23:08:41(1917) Sylvia, This is the second year of the Tropical Flower Show. It is held at the Southwest Vermont Career Development Center in Bennington, Vermont. To get here take Route 9 west from Brattleboro Vermont, We are 40 miles from Brattleboro. In the Center of Bennington Route 9 intersects with Route 7. Take a right. At the next Stoplight take a right. Go past Bennington Potters and at the next light turn left. Take the first driveway on the right and the parking lot is on your right the Career Development Center is on your left. +More This year's show is featuring the aroid plants that were given to the New England Tropical Conservatory by the Missouri Botanical Garden. We also have the university of Vermont Plant Science Department here, Vermont Tech and Cobleskill college. The Capital district African Violet society will be here and the Buxton Branch of the American Begonia Society will be here. There will be vendors selling plants from around New England. Last year we had 400 highschool and elementary students and 500 paying adults at the show. WE will also have an exhibit in the New England Flower Show in Boston. The Conservatory is about 4 years away from initial construction. They are going to rent a greenhouse in Bennington this Spring and the collection will move from the school to the Conservatory then. It will eventually be on Route Nine west of Bennington Center. Dick Lutz

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