Daily Archives: May 29, 2019

Saturday, June 15, 6:45 pm – Vermont’s Contribution to New England’s Rare Flora

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The New England Botanical Club is sponsoring an Away Weekend in Vermont June 14 – 16, and on Saturday, June 15, welcomes Bob Popp of the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, a botanist from Barre, Vermont, speaking on Vermont’s Contribution to New England’s Rare Flora. Bob’s talk will focus on the rare plants in the Champlain Valley. The lecture will be held at the Vermont Grange Center, 308 West Street in Brookfield, Vermont. Several workshops and field trips are planned for the weekend. The registration fee will cover accommodations at the Center, plus meals and activities. Reduced student rates and scholarships are available. For more information contact Matthew Charpentier at mpcharpentier93@gmail.com.

Registration deadline is June 7. The complete weekend program schedule is available at http://www.rhodora.org/meetings/notices/June2019-Away-Vermont-Schedule.pdf

Tuesday, June 25, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – The Art of Botanical Prose

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All writers must contend with translation. A poet translates the movement of a dancing figure into a brief couplet, and an essayist translates the noise and commotion of the city where she/he lives into a single paragraph. The three-dimensional world filters into text, and when done especially well, the realm of literature and art readers often forget that translation has even occurred.

In this June 25 Arnold Arboretum talk, beginning at 7 p in the Hunnewell Building, Jonathan Damery, the associate editor for Arnoldia, will provide a readerly tour through horticultural and botanical reference books, encouraging readers to see the artistic endeavor within even the most exhaustive of botanical descriptions.

$5 for Arboretum members, $10 for nonmembers. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.