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Emily Dickinsons

Garden:The Poetry of Flowers

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In 2010, from April to June in The Bronx, New York

City, the New York Botanical Garden featured a

very large exhibit in their huge greenhouse calledthe Haupt Conservatory.

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The exhibit was a recreation of Emily

Dickinsons garden from her home in

Amherst, Massachusetts in the 1800s.

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The museum workers who were in charge

of the exhibit researched Emily Dickinsons

poems, journals, and letters, along with the

letters of her friends and family and anylogs of their seed purchases to try to

include everything that would have been in

the garden that Emily loved to work in so

much.

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This is the entrance to the Haupt

Conservatory. Inside this green house

was a lush and beautiful garden filled tothe brim with the flowers and plants of

Emily Dickinsons garden.

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To give visitors a real feel for what it was

like at Emily Dickinsons garden, they had

replicas (copies) of the side of EmilyDickinsons house, called The

Homestead.

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This is a replica of the side of Emily Dickinsonsbrothers house, called Evergreen. Her brother

was her neighbor.

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The name of the exhibit was called The Poetry of

Flowers because when Emily Dickinson was alive,

many people used flowers as a way to send amessage. Each flower had its own meaning.

Therefore, the flowers had their own language.

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Here are some of the flowers from theexhibit and what they mean.

Most meanings are according to the book

The Language of Flowers.

Some are from other floral and flower

sources.

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Spider Plant

Adroitness

skillful performance or ability without difficulty

I would send you all Spider Plants for you

adroitness in creating poetry.

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Corn

Riches

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Hydrangea

A boaster

The student who bragged about her four square

skills found a hydrangea on her desk.

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Yellow Lily

Falsehood

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Tiger Lily

For once may pride befriend me

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Iris

Flame

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Morning Glory

Affectation

an exaggerated display

He slipped on the tiny patch of snow and

waved his arms all around as if he were going

to fall with much affectation.

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Sweet Pea

delicate pleasure

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Begonia

Dark Thoughts

I bet the begonia is the house flower for

the Slytherins.

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White Lily

Youthful innocence

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Hollyhocks

Fecundity

fertile, fruitful, or creative imagination

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Ox-Eye Daisy

a joke

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Delphinium

attachment

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Jasmine

amiability

friendly, easy to get along with

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Liatris

I will try again

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Primrose

Early youth or Sadness

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Larkspur

An open heart

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Mallow

Mildness

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Rose (unique)

Call me not beautiful

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Photograph portraits of the Dickinson

family, from left to right, top to bottom:

her father (Edward), Emily as a baby,her sister (Lavinia), her brother (Austin).

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There was also a display of some items

kept at the Homestead in Amherst, which is

now a museum you can visit from spring tofall.

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A portrait painting of the three Dickinson

children. Emily is the one with the red hair.

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