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1.1.10.S42e Plants of the Seattle Japanese Garden

Date statement: : 1960-2010
Summary:

 3 binders and 1 file box
Description:
 Maples of the Seattle Japanese Garden by Kathleen Smith: one binder.
Plants of the Seattle Japanese Garden by Kathleen Smith: 2 large binders, revised through 2010.

One file box containing folders and booklets:
Folder labelled "Plants of the Seattle Japanese Garden:
August 2020, Plants of the Japanese Garden, 40 pp., spiral bound book.
2010, Plants of the Japanese Garden updated by the Plant Committee of Unit 86 and bearing Seattle Parks logo.
2005, Plants of the Japanese Garden compiled by Kathleen Smith, bearing Seattle Parks logo.
2002, Plants of the Japanese Garden compiled by Kathleen Smith, bearing Seattle Parks logo and Japanese Garden Society logo.
2001, "Changes - Update Plant List to Version 2-20-2001," 2 pp.
2000, Plants of the Japanese Garden compiled by Kathleen Smith, bearing Seattle Parks logo and Japanese Garden Society logo. Loose inserts: "Donations in the Japanese Garden the Commemorate Individuals, compiled by Kathleen Smith/6-28-2000; "Changes - Update Plant List to Version 220-2000; "Changes: How to Update Plant Lists," 2 pp.; "Maple Tour in the Japanese Garden/with Kathleen Smith/October 2000," 3 pp.
1999, Plants of the Japanese Garden compiled by Kathleen Smith, bearing Seattle Parks logo and Japanese Garden Society logo.
1999, Alphabetical Plant List for the Japanese Garden updated through 1999.
1995, Guide to the Plants-1995: Seattle's Japanese Garden by Kathleen Smith.
1/1990, "Japanese Garden/Plants & Landscape Features," printed folder.
1984?, Japanese Garden Inventory.

Folder labelled: "SJG Plants 1960":
7/29-30/2021, "Cherry," emails from Kathy Lantz to Julie Coryel, 2 pp.; clipped with "Plant List" with pencil corrections; "Lida's Inventory of Plants and Trees used in the Japanese Garden within the University of Washington Arboretum. English version of his handwritten record," with pencil corrections, 4 pp.; plant list with Japanese title, with pencil corrections, 4 pp.; "Stone Lanterns," 1 p. plus a second uncorrected copy of Lida's inventory, 5 pp.
11/19/2004, "Trees of Japan," ink notes of conversation with Masa Mizuno, 2 pp.
11/1960, "Plant List," 'from N. Kitamura" in pencil, (2 copies, one with title in Japanese).
1/1960, N. Kitamura's plant list.

Folder labelled "Supplemental reference materials,"
 including "Kathleen Smith's Quest":
Green pocket folder containing:
4/10/2009, "Kathleen's Quest," (updated version), 6 pp. in plastic envelopes.
12/414, 2000, "Kathleen's Quest," 3 pp.
Loose items:
February-June 2020, 4 letters from Kathleen Smith to Julie Coryel.
4/9/1999, letter re: Japanese Garden tour from Smith to Coryel.
April 1996, "American Bamboo Society/Bamboo Species Source List No. 16," stapled booklet, 16 pp.

Folder labelled "Kathleen":
8/19/2016, "Tea Plant in Seattle Japanese Garden," email from Jeanne Peterson.
9/18/2004, "Amazing Plants/Kathleen Smith prepared this information for her tours in the fall of 2004," 3 pp.
August 2003, "Pines in the Japanese Garden," list of specimens for fall tour, 3 pp.
2/2003, "This list is intended to be used with the display board that shows these 12 Rhododendrons and Azaleas," 2 plasticized sheeets with cardboard backing.
10/24/2001, "Tree Color talk," handwritten notes.
7/5/2000, "Plants of the Japanese Garden" title page.
6/17/1997, letter to Julie from Kathleen.
n.d., "Japanese Garden in Washington Park Arboretum," 8x11" map printed on marbled paper.
n.d., "Japanese Garden/(incomplete list)," map and plant list in plastic.


Accession date: 2021-03-09 Last updated: 2024-05-07 11:12:52
Subjects: Seattle Japanese Garden

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