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My name is ari novy. I am the executive director of the United States botanic garden. Our motto could be plants plans, plans, but our official mission is to demonstrate the importance of plants to the public and their value. Today we will take some time and i will show you a little bit about the Botanic Gardens and introduce you to the stars of the conservatory and those other wonderful plants we have here today. Right now we are standing in a room called the garden courts. I always liked to orient people to the garden court initially when we come in, and one of the most important elements are...

One of the most important elements are the two cycads we see here prominently displayed. They are incredibly important for us because they represent a part of our historical collection. U. S. Botanic garden came into existence in some ways as a Permanent Institution in 1842 when the u. S. Exploring expedition surveying but also returned from a fouryear voyage at the behest of congress, mainly doing some surveying, but they also take up all bunch of scientific artifacts including living plant specimens. When the expedition returned, they had about 150 fascinating tropical and subtropical plant ...

Funds were appropriated for a temporary greenhouse structure to house them while a permanent u. S. Botanic garden could be built. We still have a couple of plants that are direct descendents of those plants. The plants we just looked at the one on the left is one of the original wilts plants. Wilkes plants. It has become a relatively important tree species in terms of ornamental tree in the tropical parts of the United States, specifically in southern florida. Im going to use some terms about how we grow plants and maintain plant lines. Some are more technical and less technical. Vegetative pr...

And other parts of new england as if you can believe it they are preparing for more snow. Coming up at 4 30 today, well look at the challenges theyre facing this time around. In other news this evening, police say the person killed in an officer involved shooting may be connected to two armed robberies in that same area. Officers interrupted the suspect in the middle of his second Armed Robbery last night in the 1400 block of swann street near dupont circle. Police say the suspect pulled a gun and took off exchanging fire with the police. Officers found him suffering from what they believe was...

There are people in the community that simply dont trust them. He says that families slain by gunman wished they are stopped them and got their guns. When two cowards took target practice at Sergeant Robert wilson, i know we wished we had gotten those guns away from those people. And anyone that is not smart enough to at least ask him to stay is probably not smart enough to run the city of philadelphia. At a quickly called availability Anthony Williams had this response. Mayor nutter implemented stop and frisk and i will end it. And it needs change and the change starts now. Milton street had ...