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Collections
Management and Education |
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Research opportunities abound at the Horticulture Services
Division. HSD manages the Archives of American Gardens,
a garden artifact collection, and a collection of orchids.
Interested parties are encouraged to contact HSD for more
information about accessing these materials. Funding
is available for undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate
study at HSD through the internship program and the Enid A.
Haupt Fellowship. Volunteers are always welcome. |
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Horticulture Services Division will consider undergraduate,
graduate students and recent post-graduate for placement as
interns in its various units.
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Garden
Club of America Award |
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The Garden Club of America (GCA) offers a $2,000
award which supplements the Archives of American Gardens'
internship stipend provided by the Horticulture Services Division.
However, you must apply for this award by submitting a Garden
Club of America application on-line. The deadline
for the application GCA Award is February 1.
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Over the years, volunteers have played an important role in
the success of our Division. We would like to take this opportunity
to invite you to apply as a volunteer. |
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This fellowship, made possible by a generous endowment from
philanthropist Enid A. Haupt, is designed to encourage the
study of, and professions in, the field of horticulture.
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Archives
of American Gardens
The Archives of American Gardens (AAG)offers landscape designers,
historians, researchers, and garden enthusiasts access to
a collection of over 80,000 photographic images and records
documenting historic and contemporary American gardens. |
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Horticultural
Artifact Collection
Now numbering over 1,600 items, the Horticulture Services
Division's Garden Furnishings and Horticultural Artifacts
Collection spans the period from 1835 to 1955. Hundreds of
pieces are exhibited in the Smithsonian gardens and interior
plant displays in the Smithsonian museums surrounding the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. |
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Orchid
Collection
Horticulture Services Division strives to cultivate an extremely
diverse array of orchids from all over the world. With close
to 10,000 plants in the collection, new acquisitions are selected
carefully each year based on their display quality, educational
value, beauty, rarity and how they complement the present
collection. |
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Other resources can be found at the Botany and
Horticulture Branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries
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