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A Garden Opens Up the View: A Poem by Charles Santiago

Pine Ridge Preserve TrailBok Tower GardensLake Wales, Florida Mr. Bok, I’m here, again,To walk in heaven, all anew;For, it is true–for Earthly man,A garden opens up the viewTo realms beyond …

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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 3 of 8-part blog series

This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …

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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 2 of 8-part blog series

This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …

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The Autobiography of Tsujita: Part 1 of a 10-part blog series

This digital transcription is a small portion of Usaburo Tsujita’s autobiography describing his time at Bok Tower Gardens in 1955 and is part of the Nellie Lee Bok archive. The …

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A Butterfly Back from the Brink of Extinction

The beautiful Atala butterfly (Eumaeus atala Poey) is now here in the Gardens, thanks to our prolific coontie palm (Zamia integrifolia) population and Thomas Hecker, director of Horticulture at Peace …

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Catching Up With Conservation: Cooley’s Water-willow

On July 12th, 2023, through a partnership with the Rare Plant Conservation Program (RPCP), the Florida Forest Service (FFS), and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a population augmentation of …

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Americanization

Successward: The Question of Marriage (Chapter 9)

Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. Necessarily the question of marriage to a young man is an important one—perhaps the most important that is given him to solve …

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Catching Up With Conservation: Collecting Spreading Pinweed Seeds

Under an agreement with the Center for Plant Conservation, the Rare Plant Conservation Program has been tasked to collect seeds of the endangered spreading pinweed, Lechea divaricata, from one population …

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Americanization

Successward: His Attitude Towards Women (Chapter 8)

Successward is the 1895 book written by Edward Bok. The attitude which a young man assumes toward women is one of the surest index-fingers to his character, and nothing stamps him …

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