{"links":{"self":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Botany+--+Florida","last":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog.json?f%5Baccess_subjects%5D%5B%5D=Botany+--+Florida\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":6,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. 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It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida."],"label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog/f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":[{"id":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","title_ssm":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn"],"title_tesim":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn"],"ead_ssi":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","unitdate_ssm":["1855-1934"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["1855-1934"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC099","/repositories/4/resources/42"],"text":["SC099","/repositories/4/resources/42","Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934","Naples (Fla.)","Estero (Fla.)","Tropical Plants","Plants, Ornamental -- Florida","Horticulture -- Florida","Gardens -- Florida","Gardening -- Florida","Botany -- Florida","Birds -- North America","Botany","Bromeliaceae","Plant hybridization","Photographic prints","botanical illustrations","The entire collection is open for research.","Henry H. Nehrling (1853-1929), a native of Wisconsin, whose interest in birds and natural history led him to become known as \"the Audubon of Wisconsin.\" It was his interest in exotic flora; however, that brought him to Florida, first of all for part-time experiments, and later as a full time resident. In the 1880s, Nehrling purchased acreage near the village of Gotha, in Central Florida, and began experimenting with tropical and subtropical plants. A few years later, in 1904, having vacated his position as director of the Public Museum of Milwaukee, Nehrling moved permanently to Florida. His garden there became a popular destination for many of Florida's early visitors and settlers. Soon Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and David Fairchild, among others, had all found their way to Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. The garden became Florida's first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the United States Department of Agriculture. Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.","\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. The community itself was founded by a man as Cyrus Teed (1839-1908) who took the name \"Koresh\" in 1869. Sometime in that year, Teed believed he had been visited by a divine spirit who told him that he was the messiah. In his new incarnation, developed a variety of offbeat religious and scientific ideas that he called Koreshanity. Among the other things, he denounced the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, and later on the beaches of West Florida, made measurements and calculations that \"proved\" his theory that human beings live on the inside of our planet, not the outside. Along with that theory - called Cellular Cosmogony - Koreshanity preached alchemy, reincarnation, immortality, celibacy, communism and a few other radical ideas. At its peak, 1905-1908, his community of followers at Estero numbered about 250. One of the interests of the Koreshan Community was in plants and horticulture. The colony's newspaper, The American Eagle, began publishing extensively in the field of tropical plants and gardenning, and Henry Nehrling became a regular contributor throughout the 1920s.","\nDue to financial problems, Henry Nehrling returned to Gotha where he died on November 22, 1929 and was buried in Woodlawn cemetary near Gotha. His garden in Naples was preserved as the Jungle Larry's Caribbean Gardens and some efforts have been made to preserve his Palm Cottage Gardens in Gotha.\nNehrling always wrote about his interests; he wrote articles on birds for the Nuttall Ornithological Club in Texas. In 1922, he began writing columns for The American Eagle, a weekly newspaper published in Estero, Florida. His first book Orchids in South Florida was published in 1890 and was followed a year later by Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (North American Bird Life). Two volumes of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty were published in 1893 and 1896 respectively. His next work, Die Amaryllis oder Rittersterne (Hippeastrum) (The Amaryllis), was published in 1908.","Collection processed by Suphi Burak Ogreten; finding aid prepared by Suphi Burak Ogreten.","Materials were arranged in chronological order and then placed in pH neutral folders and boxes. Damaged, fragile and high use items were placed in polyester sleeves.","Michael A. Spencer donated collections on Henry Nehrling to the University of Central Florida Libraries in 2006. The finding aid can be found  here .","The University of Central Florida Libraries purchased materials related to Henry Nehrling from the Mickler estate in 1999. The finding can be found  here .","Nehrling wrote several books that may be found by searching the UCF Libraries  online catalog .","Other materials about Henry Nehrling are held in repositories at  Rollins College ,  Winter Park Public Library ,  Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Library ,  Orange County Regional History Center  and the Koreshan Collection.","Early 1920s, Betty Nehrling returned to New York for a visit while Henry made a visit to the Koreshan Community. With his financial condition deteriorating, Nehrling decided to extend his time in South Florida. It is during this period of time, 1923-1929, that the bulk of the correspondence takes place. Seventeen of the letters are in Henry Nehrling's hand. They offer his wife an ever-hopeful view of his endeavors. Often addressing her as \"my dearest sweetheart,\" or its German equivalent. Henry Nehrling mentions that he has recently planted 50,000 caladiums, or that he had received an order for caladiums from Kenya. Collection also contains a few letters mention about visits from the Edisons, Colliers, or David Fairchild. Meanwhile, the letters from Betty plead for funds and make mention of problems in paying creditors. Other correspondence tells a similar tale. Clayton C. Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.","\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.","\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:","\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.","\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.","\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. Nehrling.\"","Unpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.","These materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.","UCF Special Collections","Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell","Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929","English"],"unitid_tesim":["SC099","/repositories/4/resources/42"],"normalized_date_ssm":["1855-1934"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934"],"collection_title_tesim":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934"],"collection_ssim":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. 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Nehrling (1853-1929), a native of Wisconsin, whose interest in birds and natural history led him to become known as \"the Audubon of Wisconsin.\" It was his interest in exotic flora; however, that brought him to Florida, first of all for part-time experiments, and later as a full time resident. In the 1880s, Nehrling purchased acreage near the village of Gotha, in Central Florida, and began experimenting with tropical and subtropical plants. A few years later, in 1904, having vacated his position as director of the Public Museum of Milwaukee, Nehrling moved permanently to Florida. His garden there became a popular destination for many of Florida's early visitors and settlers. Soon Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and David Fairchild, among others, had all found their way to Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. The garden became Florida's first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the United States Department of Agriculture. Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. The community itself was founded by a man as Cyrus Teed (1839-1908) who took the name \"Koresh\" in 1869. Sometime in that year, Teed believed he had been visited by a divine spirit who told him that he was the messiah. In his new incarnation, developed a variety of offbeat religious and scientific ideas that he called Koreshanity. Among the other things, he denounced the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, and later on the beaches of West Florida, made measurements and calculations that \"proved\" his theory that human beings live on the inside of our planet, not the outside. Along with that theory - called Cellular Cosmogony - Koreshanity preached alchemy, reincarnation, immortality, celibacy, communism and a few other radical ideas. At its peak, 1905-1908, his community of followers at Estero numbered about 250. One of the interests of the Koreshan Community was in plants and horticulture. 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Soon Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and David Fairchild, among others, had all found their way to Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. The garden became Florida's first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the United States Department of Agriculture. Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.","\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. The community itself was founded by a man as Cyrus Teed (1839-1908) who took the name \"Koresh\" in 1869. Sometime in that year, Teed believed he had been visited by a divine spirit who told him that he was the messiah. In his new incarnation, developed a variety of offbeat religious and scientific ideas that he called Koreshanity. Among the other things, he denounced the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, and later on the beaches of West Florida, made measurements and calculations that \"proved\" his theory that human beings live on the inside of our planet, not the outside. Along with that theory - called Cellular Cosmogony - Koreshanity preached alchemy, reincarnation, immortality, celibacy, communism and a few other radical ideas. At its peak, 1905-1908, his community of followers at Estero numbered about 250. One of the interests of the Koreshan Community was in plants and horticulture. The colony's newspaper, The American Eagle, began publishing extensively in the field of tropical plants and gardenning, and Henry Nehrling became a regular contributor throughout the 1920s.","\nDue to financial problems, Henry Nehrling returned to Gotha where he died on November 22, 1929 and was buried in Woodlawn cemetary near Gotha. His garden in Naples was preserved as the Jungle Larry's Caribbean Gardens and some efforts have been made to preserve his Palm Cottage Gardens in Gotha.\nNehrling always wrote about his interests; he wrote articles on birds for the Nuttall Ornithological Club in Texas. In 1922, he began writing columns for The American Eagle, a weekly newspaper published in Estero, Florida. His first book Orchids in South Florida was published in 1890 and was followed a year later by Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (North American Bird Life). Two volumes of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty were published in 1893 and 1896 respectively. His next work, Die Amaryllis oder Rittersterne (Hippeastrum) (The Amaryllis), was published in 1908."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. 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The finding aid can be found \u003cextref href=\"http://purl.flvc.org/UCF/EAD/CFM2006-08a\"\u003ehere\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eThe University of Central Florida Libraries purchased materials related to Henry Nehrling from the Mickler estate in 1999. The finding can be found \u003cextref href=\"http://purl.flvc.org/UCF/EAD/CFM1999-03\"\u003ehere\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eNehrling wrote several books that may be found by searching the UCF Libraries \u003cextref href=\"https://library.ucf.edu\"\u003eonline catalog\u003c/extref\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003eOther materials about Henry Nehrling are held in repositories at \u003cextref href=\"http://www.rollins.edu/olin/archives/index.html\"\u003eRollins College\u003c/extref\u003e, \u003cextref href=\"https://mywppl.wppl.org/?section=search\u0026amp;term=henry+nehrling\"\u003eWinter Park Public Library\u003c/extref\u003e, \u003cextref href=\"http://www.fairchildgarden.org\"\u003eFairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Library\u003c/extref\u003e, \u003cextref href=\"https://www.thehistorycenter.org/collections/research-collections/\"\u003eOrange County Regional History Center\u003c/extref\u003e and the Koreshan Collection.\u003c/p\u003e"],"relatedmaterial_heading_ssm":["Related Materials"],"relatedmaterial_tesim":["Michael A. Spencer donated collections on Henry Nehrling to the University of Central Florida Libraries in 2006. The finding aid can be found  here .","The University of Central Florida Libraries purchased materials related to Henry Nehrling from the Mickler estate in 1999. The finding can be found  here .","Nehrling wrote several books that may be found by searching the UCF Libraries  online catalog .","Other materials about Henry Nehrling are held in repositories at  Rollins College ,  Winter Park Public Library ,  Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Library ,  Orange County Regional History Center  and the Koreshan Collection."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eEarly 1920s, Betty Nehrling returned to New York for a visit while Henry made a visit to the Koreshan Community. With his financial condition deteriorating, Nehrling decided to extend his time in South Florida. It is during this period of time, 1923-1929, that the bulk of the correspondence takes place. Seventeen of the letters are in Henry Nehrling's hand. They offer his wife an ever-hopeful view of his endeavors. Often addressing her as \"my dearest sweetheart,\" or its German equivalent. Henry Nehrling mentions that he has recently planted 50,000 caladiums, or that he had received an order for caladiums from Kenya. Collection also contains a few letters mention about visits from the Edisons, Colliers, or David Fairchild. Meanwhile, the letters from Betty plead for funds and make mention of problems in paying creditors. Other correspondence tells a similar tale. Clayton C. Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. 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Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.","\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.","\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:","\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.","\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.","\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. Nehrling.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eUnpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Unpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_8ecbcb42d12fc77d1d26dcb4a36c15a6\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThese materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["These materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida."],"names_ssim":["UCF Special Collections","Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell","Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"corpname_ssim":["UCF Special Collections"],"names_coll_ssim":["Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"persname_ssim":["Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell","Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":155,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"_version_":1874662710008872960,"_root_":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","timestamp":"2026-08-27T08:01:18.453Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","title_ssm":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. 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Nehrling (1853-1929), a native of Wisconsin, whose interest in birds and natural history led him to become known as \"the Audubon of Wisconsin.\" It was his interest in exotic flora; however, that brought him to Florida, first of all for part-time experiments, and later as a full time resident. In the 1880s, Nehrling purchased acreage near the village of Gotha, in Central Florida, and began experimenting with tropical and subtropical plants. A few years later, in 1904, having vacated his position as director of the Public Museum of Milwaukee, Nehrling moved permanently to Florida. His garden there became a popular destination for many of Florida's early visitors and settlers. Soon Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and David Fairchild, among others, had all found their way to Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. The garden became Florida's first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the United States Department of Agriculture. Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.","\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. The community itself was founded by a man as Cyrus Teed (1839-1908) who took the name \"Koresh\" in 1869. Sometime in that year, Teed believed he had been visited by a divine spirit who told him that he was the messiah. In his new incarnation, developed a variety of offbeat religious and scientific ideas that he called Koreshanity. Among the other things, he denounced the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, and later on the beaches of West Florida, made measurements and calculations that \"proved\" his theory that human beings live on the inside of our planet, not the outside. Along with that theory - called Cellular Cosmogony - Koreshanity preached alchemy, reincarnation, immortality, celibacy, communism and a few other radical ideas. At its peak, 1905-1908, his community of followers at Estero numbered about 250. One of the interests of the Koreshan Community was in plants and horticulture. The colony's newspaper, The American Eagle, began publishing extensively in the field of tropical plants and gardenning, and Henry Nehrling became a regular contributor throughout the 1920s.","\nDue to financial problems, Henry Nehrling returned to Gotha where he died on November 22, 1929 and was buried in Woodlawn cemetary near Gotha. His garden in Naples was preserved as the Jungle Larry's Caribbean Gardens and some efforts have been made to preserve his Palm Cottage Gardens in Gotha.\nNehrling always wrote about his interests; he wrote articles on birds for the Nuttall Ornithological Club in Texas. In 1922, he began writing columns for The American Eagle, a weekly newspaper published in Estero, Florida. His first book Orchids in South Florida was published in 1890 and was followed a year later by Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (North American Bird Life). Two volumes of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty were published in 1893 and 1896 respectively. His next work, Die Amaryllis oder Rittersterne (Hippeastrum) (The Amaryllis), was published in 1908.","Collection processed by Suphi Burak Ogreten; finding aid prepared by Suphi Burak Ogreten.","Materials were arranged in chronological order and then placed in pH neutral folders and boxes. Damaged, fragile and high use items were placed in polyester sleeves.","Michael A. Spencer donated collections on Henry Nehrling to the University of Central Florida Libraries in 2006. The finding aid can be found  here .","The University of Central Florida Libraries purchased materials related to Henry Nehrling from the Mickler estate in 1999. The finding can be found  here .","Nehrling wrote several books that may be found by searching the UCF Libraries  online catalog .","Other materials about Henry Nehrling are held in repositories at  Rollins College ,  Winter Park Public Library ,  Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Library ,  Orange County Regional History Center  and the Koreshan Collection.","Early 1920s, Betty Nehrling returned to New York for a visit while Henry made a visit to the Koreshan Community. With his financial condition deteriorating, Nehrling decided to extend his time in South Florida. It is during this period of time, 1923-1929, that the bulk of the correspondence takes place. Seventeen of the letters are in Henry Nehrling's hand. They offer his wife an ever-hopeful view of his endeavors. Often addressing her as \"my dearest sweetheart,\" or its German equivalent. Henry Nehrling mentions that he has recently planted 50,000 caladiums, or that he had received an order for caladiums from Kenya. Collection also contains a few letters mention about visits from the Edisons, Colliers, or David Fairchild. Meanwhile, the letters from Betty plead for funds and make mention of problems in paying creditors. Other correspondence tells a similar tale. Clayton C. Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.","\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.","\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:","\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.","\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.","\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. Nehrling.\"","Unpublished records are protected by copyright. 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Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. 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Soon Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Edison and David Fairchild, among others, had all found their way to Nehrling's Palm Cottage Gardens. The garden became Florida's first experimental botanical garden, where Dr. Nehrling tested over 3,000 new and rare plants for the United States Department of Agriculture. Of these, 3,000 new plants were introduced into Florida's landscape, including caladiums, hybrid amaryllis, and gloriosa lilies. These plants became the foundation to Florida's thriving nursery industry.\nFollowing the death of his first wife, Sophia, in 1911, Nehrling met Betty Pooler Mitchell during a visit to the small, mostly German-speaking village of DeKalb, in northwestern New York. The two were married in the town on June 7, 1916. Unfortunately for the newlyweds, the Florida winter of 1916-17 was one of the worst on record. Some locations in Florida recorded more than two weeks of temperatures below freezing and and as low as 16 degrees for a sustained period. The results at Palm Cottage Gardens were devastating.","\nDuring the next few years of rebuilding, Nehrling evidently incurred substantial debts. It was also during this period that he began submitting articles to The American Eagle, the newspaper of a communal colony near Fort Myers. The community itself was founded by a man as Cyrus Teed (1839-1908) who took the name \"Koresh\" in 1869. Sometime in that year, Teed believed he had been visited by a divine spirit who told him that he was the messiah. In his new incarnation, developed a variety of offbeat religious and scientific ideas that he called Koreshanity. Among the other things, he denounced the idea that the Earth revolved around the sun, and later on the beaches of West Florida, made measurements and calculations that \"proved\" his theory that human beings live on the inside of our planet, not the outside. Along with that theory - called Cellular Cosmogony - Koreshanity preached alchemy, reincarnation, immortality, celibacy, communism and a few other radical ideas. At its peak, 1905-1908, his community of followers at Estero numbered about 250. One of the interests of the Koreshan Community was in plants and horticulture. The colony's newspaper, The American Eagle, began publishing extensively in the field of tropical plants and gardenning, and Henry Nehrling became a regular contributor throughout the 1920s.","\nDue to financial problems, Henry Nehrling returned to Gotha where he died on November 22, 1929 and was buried in Woodlawn cemetary near Gotha. His garden in Naples was preserved as the Jungle Larry's Caribbean Gardens and some efforts have been made to preserve his Palm Cottage Gardens in Gotha.\nNehrling always wrote about his interests; he wrote articles on birds for the Nuttall Ornithological Club in Texas. In 1922, he began writing columns for The American Eagle, a weekly newspaper published in Estero, Florida. His first book Orchids in South Florida was published in 1890 and was followed a year later by Die Nordamerikanische Vogelwelt (North American Bird Life). Two volumes of Our Native Birds of Song and Beauty were published in 1893 and 1896 respectively. His next work, Die Amaryllis oder Rittersterne (Hippeastrum) (The Amaryllis), was published in 1908."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eArchival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. 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Seventeen of the letters are in Henry Nehrling's hand. They offer his wife an ever-hopeful view of his endeavors. Often addressing her as \"my dearest sweetheart,\" or its German equivalent. Henry Nehrling mentions that he has recently planted 50,000 caladiums, or that he had received an order for caladiums from Kenya. Collection also contains a few letters mention about visits from the Edisons, Colliers, or David Fairchild. Meanwhile, the letters from Betty plead for funds and make mention of problems in paying creditors. Other correspondence tells a similar tale. Clayton C. Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. Nehrling.\"\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Contents"],"scopecontent_tesim":["Early 1920s, Betty Nehrling returned to New York for a visit while Henry made a visit to the Koreshan Community. With his financial condition deteriorating, Nehrling decided to extend his time in South Florida. It is during this period of time, 1923-1929, that the bulk of the correspondence takes place. Seventeen of the letters are in Henry Nehrling's hand. They offer his wife an ever-hopeful view of his endeavors. Often addressing her as \"my dearest sweetheart,\" or its German equivalent. Henry Nehrling mentions that he has recently planted 50,000 caladiums, or that he had received an order for caladiums from Kenya. Collection also contains a few letters mention about visits from the Edisons, Colliers, or David Fairchild. Meanwhile, the letters from Betty plead for funds and make mention of problems in paying creditors. Other correspondence tells a similar tale. Clayton C. Townes, a mayor of Cleveland, Ohio and a financial backer of the gardens, writes to Betty Nehrling that when he visited Henry near Naples, he found him living in conditions \"not fit for a human being.\" A bank statement from June of 1928 included in the collection shows a balance of just 4 cents.","\nOther highlights in the collection include a portrait of Henry Nehrling (1915), a photograph labeled \"Dr. Nehrling at Naples after 10 weeks of typhoid and pneumonia\", a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell (Undated) mounted on board, and two copies of a group photograph taken in Miami of John Kunkel Small, H. H. Hume, Henry Nehrling, David Fairchild, and Theodore L. Mead, at the time Nehrling was presented with the Frank N. Meyer Medal for Plant Genetic Resources. A twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from the guest book belonging to \"Mrs. H. Nehrling / Palm Cottage Gardens\" (1925- ca. 1934). Number of the photographs in this album also record the freeze damage in 1916-17. Coincidentally, David Fairchild visited Nehrling in late March of 1917. At least ten of the photographs here were taken by Fairchild and bear typewritten descriptions of what he saw during his visit to the Gardens that winter.\nThe importance of this particular collection is that it provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.","\nThese papers are divided into four series by type of document:","\nSeries I: Writings, 1914-1929, consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence between Henry Nehrling and and his second wife Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling. Series also includes letters between individuals other than Nerhling, which were collected by Nehrling family.","\nSeries II: Business and Personal Documents, 1913-1932, consists of financial affairs of the Nehrling gardens in Gotha, Florida. Series holds correspondence and financial papers such as insurance bills, tax receipts, bank checks, and a lease agreement.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1907-1934, Twenty-three pages of a photograph album called My Memory Book contains photographs, newsclippings, and three leaves from a guest book at Palm Cottage Gardens. Collection also includes postcards, a self-portrait of Betty Pooler Mitchell and a photograph of caladiums in Henry Nehrling's garden in Gotha, Florida.","\nSeries IV: Publications, 1855-1896, contains two books from Henry Nehrling's personal library; Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean (1855) and volume II of Our native birds of song and beauty (1896); inscribed by the author to his second wife, \"Betty P. Nehrling from H. Nehrling.\""],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eUnpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Conditions Governing Use"],"userestrict_tesim":["Unpublished records are protected by copyright. Permission to publish quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder."],"abstract_html_tesm":["\u003cabstract id=\"aspace_8ecbcb42d12fc77d1d26dcb4a36c15a6\" label=\"Abstract\"\u003eThese materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida.\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["These materials were in the possession of Betty Pooler Mitchell Nehrling, Henry Nehrling's second wife. Dr. Henry Nehrling was a horticulturist famous for his gardens in Gotha and Naples, Florida. The collection consists of letters, documents, photographs, postcards and monographs which provides insight into the familial and financial affairs of the Nehrling Gardens. It also offers a look at Henry Nehrling during the tumultuous years of Florida's boom and bust, and a glimpse of his failing physical and mental state while he sought refuge in a quiet communal colony in Southwest Florida."],"names_ssim":["UCF Special Collections","Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell","Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"corpname_ssim":["UCF Special Collections"],"names_coll_ssim":["Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"persname_ssim":["Nehrling, Betty Pooler Mitchell","Nehrling, Henry, 1853-1929"],"language_ssim":["English"],"descrules_ssm":["Describing Archives: A Content Standard"],"total_component_count_is":155,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"_version_":1874662710008872960,"_root_":"f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21","timestamp":"2026-08-27T08:01:18.453Z"}]}}],"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog/f984bfff1dbbe8c89c998d21"}},{"id":"a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Circa 1920's-1979","creator":{"id":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog/a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be#creator","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":["Groves, Grant"],"label":"Creator"}},"abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog/a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":["Grant Groves, owner of Color Zone Tropicals, Inc. in Winter Garden Florida, collected materials on Mulford B. Foster. He was a botanist, horticulturist, and a lifelong naturalist, also known as \"Father of the Bromeliad\", born in 1888 in Elmer, New Jersey and passed away at the age of 89 in Orange County, Florida. Collection includes Foster's black \u0026amp; white sketches, color drawings, oil paintings, three-fold screen art work, news clippings, publications, photographs, slides, negatives, correspondence, and blueprints of Foster's house called \"Bromel - La.\""],"label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://flvc.lyrasistechnology.org/catalog/a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":[{"id":"a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be","title_ssm":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection"],"title_tesim":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection"],"ead_ssi":"a33cb88ff8cc6c0b350c22be","unitdate_ssm":["Circa 1920's-1979"],"unitdate_inclusive_ssm":["Circa 1920's-1979"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["SC.103","/repositories/4/resources/192"],"text":["SC.103","/repositories/4/resources/192","Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Circa 1920's-1979","Architecture -- Design and plans -- Florida","Botany -- Florida","Drawing","botanical illustrations","The entire collection is open for research.","Collection is arranged in three parts: Personal files, arts, and photographs:","Mulford Bateman Foster, \"the father of Bromeliads\", was born on December 25, 1888 in Elmer, New Jersey. His interest in botany began at early ages by exploring wild plants in New Jersey. With the help of his mother, Fannie Bateman, he set up his first garden around the family home. In 1905, he graduated from Elmer High School and attended Philadelphia business school. Upon graduation in 1910, he started working as an Associate Editor for Elmer Times. In the early 1920's Foster moved from New Jersey to Florida to work as a landscape architect. He got married to Racine Foster who was also interested in tropical plants and traveled multiple times to Brazil with him in search of rare plants. Following years, he established his own business called the Tropical Arts Nursery. Mr. Foster considered to be Orlando's first landscape architect. As a naturalist explorer, botanist, hybridizer, and plant collector, he traveled most of the United States, as well as other countries in the Americas and discovered over two hundred new species such as cacti, palms, aroids, amaryllis, and bromeliads.","\nMulford wrote a book called \"Brazil - Orchid of the Tropics\" and account his plant-collecting travels in Brazil. He also published articles in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society, the Smithsonian Annual Report, and the National Geographic Magazine. He was also heavily involved in the International Bromeliad Society edited bi-monthly bulletin for twelve years. He received the Herbert Medal for work in promoting amaryllis in 1951. He also received the Reasoner Trophy for outstanding contributions to the ornamental horticulture industry. He was a great artist worked mainly in oil paintings. His work has been exhibited in Orlando, Miami, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He passed away at the age of 89 at his house on Lakeville Road in northwest Orange County, Florida on August 28, 1978. His home was surrounded over four hundred varieties of rare plants which includes the largest collection of living bromeliads in the world.","Processed by Suphi Burak Ogreten; finding aid prepared by Suphi Burak Ogreten.","Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934","The Bromeliad Society International (BSI) Archive, 1942-2012","Michael A. Spencer Bromeliad Research Collection, 1754-2014","Series I: Personal Files, Circa 1920's-1979, Undated, includes three pages of blueprints of a house Mulford and Racine Foster built in the late 1950's in Orange County, Florida on a 12 acres of land close to Lake Apopka. The house also known as \"Bromel - La\" had two greenhouses used to hybrid bromeliads during the twenty years that they owned the land; correspondence between June F. Fry \u0026 Bernard N. and Mulford \u0026 Racine Foster regarding to fulfill the orders before the freeze. Another letter describes June's doctors and hospital visits in regard to her infections in sinuses and throat. On another occasion, June talks about selling her house and moving from Maryland to California; news clippings from Elmer News where Mulford's father, Samuel P. Foster, contributed articles on a weekly basis; brief plant notes for Tillandsia Dasylirifolia, Tillandsia Grandis, and Tillandsia Butzii; a book called \"Catalogue, 3rd International Exhibition of Botanical Art \u0026 Illustration, 12 November 1972 to 30 March 1973\" contains Mulford Foster's short biography and a painting \"Bromelia balansae\"; a little booklet called \"Color Mediums\" published by Talens \u0026 Sons, Ltd., provides information on artists' oil colours and identifies most durable binding materials; and two \"Royal Portraits \u0026 Testimony\" blue folders which lacks materials inside.","\nSeries II: Arts, 1935-1966, Undated, Mulford B. Foster created various art pieces over the course of his long career as a botanist including black and white sketches, miniature canvas art pieces, christmas card designs, color sketches, oil paintings (framed) and (unframed), and portfolio folders. Collection also includes portable three-panel wood folding screen hand painted by Mulford B. Foster. The large screen is made of solid wood with walnut-color finish with floral design on each panel.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1946-1970, Undated, Mulford B. Foster and other members of the Bromeliad Society gathered during a banquet on June 6, 1970 in Los Angeles, California to celebrate the 20th year of the Bromeliad Society and took pictures to document the event. Series also includes several notable photographs such as Bert Foster's house during the Christmas 1958; Mulford B. Foster discovers \"Dyckia Fosteriana\" in habitat rocky ledge of Brazil in 1939 on his stops around South America; Foster's visit to Putumayo, Colombia documenting various plants \"Welfia regia – Wendly\", \"Bellarista\", \"Wettinia aff. Maynensis\", and \"Attalea funifera—Mart\"; and three slides taken by Oather Van Hyning during Pineapple dinner at Bromel - La in 1970 together with Althea Van Hyning, Julian Nally, Maggie Nally, Mulford B. Foster, and Racine Foster. Also significant is a collection of photographs of upper class society homes in Florida during the 19th and 20th century. Both small and large photographic images have not been identified. Images are documenting architectural interior and exterior designs of various homes including landscape, gardens, front and rear entrance, interior furnishing, patio fountain, pool, porch, living room, and library room. A few photographs are hand-colored by Mulford B. Foster.","Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.","Grant Groves, owner of Color Zone Tropicals, Inc. in Winter Garden Florida, collected materials on Mulford B. Foster. He was a botanist, horticulturist, and a lifelong naturalist, also known as \"Father of the Bromeliad\", born in 1888 in Elmer, New Jersey and passed away at the age of 89 in Orange County, Florida. Collection includes Foster's black \u0026 white sketches, color drawings, oil paintings, three-fold screen art work, news clippings, publications, photographs, slides, negatives, correspondence, and blueprints of Foster's house called \"Bromel - La.\"","UCF Special Collections","Groves, Grant","Foster, Mulford B. (Mulford Bateman), 1888-1978","Foster, Racine, 1910-1991","English"],"unitid_tesim":["SC.103","/repositories/4/resources/192"],"normalized_date_ssm":["Circa 1920's-1979"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Circa 1920's-1979"],"collection_title_tesim":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Circa 1920's-1979"],"collection_ssim":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. 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His interest in botany began at early ages by exploring wild plants in New Jersey. With the help of his mother, Fannie Bateman, he set up his first garden around the family home. In 1905, he graduated from Elmer High School and attended Philadelphia business school. Upon graduation in 1910, he started working as an Associate Editor for Elmer Times. In the early 1920's Foster moved from New Jersey to Florida to work as a landscape architect. He got married to Racine Foster who was also interested in tropical plants and traveled multiple times to Brazil with him in search of rare plants. Following years, he established his own business called the Tropical Arts Nursery. Mr. Foster considered to be Orlando's first landscape architect. As a naturalist explorer, botanist, hybridizer, and plant collector, he traveled most of the United States, as well as other countries in the Americas and discovered over two hundred new species such as cacti, palms, aroids, amaryllis, and bromeliads.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nMulford wrote a book called \"Brazil - Orchid of the Tropics\" and account his plant-collecting travels in Brazil. He also published articles in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society, the Smithsonian Annual Report, and the National Geographic Magazine. He was also heavily involved in the International Bromeliad Society edited bi-monthly bulletin for twelve years. He received the Herbert Medal for work in promoting amaryllis in 1951. He also received the Reasoner Trophy for outstanding contributions to the ornamental horticulture industry. He was a great artist worked mainly in oil paintings. His work has been exhibited in Orlando, Miami, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He passed away at the age of 89 at his house on Lakeville Road in northwest Orange County, Florida on August 28, 1978. His home was surrounded over four hundred varieties of rare plants which includes the largest collection of living bromeliads in the world.\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical or Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["Mulford Bateman Foster, \"the father of Bromeliads\", was born on December 25, 1888 in Elmer, New Jersey. His interest in botany began at early ages by exploring wild plants in New Jersey. With the help of his mother, Fannie Bateman, he set up his first garden around the family home. In 1905, he graduated from Elmer High School and attended Philadelphia business school. Upon graduation in 1910, he started working as an Associate Editor for Elmer Times. In the early 1920's Foster moved from New Jersey to Florida to work as a landscape architect. He got married to Racine Foster who was also interested in tropical plants and traveled multiple times to Brazil with him in search of rare plants. Following years, he established his own business called the Tropical Arts Nursery. Mr. Foster considered to be Orlando's first landscape architect. As a naturalist explorer, botanist, hybridizer, and plant collector, he traveled most of the United States, as well as other countries in the Americas and discovered over two hundred new species such as cacti, palms, aroids, amaryllis, and bromeliads.","\nMulford wrote a book called \"Brazil - Orchid of the Tropics\" and account his plant-collecting travels in Brazil. He also published articles in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society, the Smithsonian Annual Report, and the National Geographic Magazine. He was also heavily involved in the International Bromeliad Society edited bi-monthly bulletin for twelve years. He received the Herbert Medal for work in promoting amaryllis in 1951. He also received the Reasoner Trophy for outstanding contributions to the ornamental horticulture industry. He was a great artist worked mainly in oil paintings. His work has been exhibited in Orlando, Miami, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He passed away at the age of 89 at his house on Lakeville Road in northwest Orange County, Florida on August 28, 1978. His home was surrounded over four hundred varieties of rare plants which includes the largest collection of living bromeliads in the world."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGrant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. 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Another letter describes June's doctors and hospital visits in regard to her infections in sinuses and throat. On another occasion, June talks about selling her house and moving from Maryland to California; news clippings from Elmer News where Mulford's father, Samuel P. Foster, contributed articles on a weekly basis; brief plant notes for Tillandsia Dasylirifolia, Tillandsia Grandis, and Tillandsia Butzii; a book called \"Catalogue, 3rd International Exhibition of Botanical Art \u0026amp; Illustration, 12 November 1972 to 30 March 1973\" contains Mulford Foster's short biography and a painting \"Bromelia balansae\"; a little booklet called \"Color Mediums\" published by Talens \u0026amp; Sons, Ltd., provides information on artists' oil colours and identifies most durable binding materials; and two \"Royal Portraits \u0026amp; Testimony\" blue folders which lacks materials inside.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries II: Arts, 1935-1966, Undated, Mulford B. 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Foster, contributed articles on a weekly basis; brief plant notes for Tillandsia Dasylirifolia, Tillandsia Grandis, and Tillandsia Butzii; a book called \"Catalogue, 3rd International Exhibition of Botanical Art \u0026 Illustration, 12 November 1972 to 30 March 1973\" contains Mulford Foster's short biography and a painting \"Bromelia balansae\"; a little booklet called \"Color Mediums\" published by Talens \u0026 Sons, Ltd., provides information on artists' oil colours and identifies most durable binding materials; and two \"Royal Portraits \u0026 Testimony\" blue folders which lacks materials inside.","\nSeries II: Arts, 1935-1966, Undated, Mulford B. Foster created various art pieces over the course of his long career as a botanist including black and white sketches, miniature canvas art pieces, christmas card designs, color sketches, oil paintings (framed) and (unframed), and portfolio folders. Collection also includes portable three-panel wood folding screen hand painted by Mulford B. Foster. The large screen is made of solid wood with walnut-color finish with floral design on each panel.","\nSeries III: Photographs, 1946-1970, Undated, Mulford B. Foster and other members of the Bromeliad Society gathered during a banquet on June 6, 1970 in Los Angeles, California to celebrate the 20th year of the Bromeliad Society and took pictures to document the event. Series also includes several notable photographs such as Bert Foster's house during the Christmas 1958; Mulford B. Foster discovers \"Dyckia Fosteriana\" in habitat rocky ledge of Brazil in 1939 on his stops around South America; Foster's visit to Putumayo, Colombia documenting various plants \"Welfia regia – Wendly\", \"Bellarista\", \"Wettinia aff. 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Collection includes Foster's black \u0026amp; white sketches, color drawings, oil paintings, three-fold screen art work, news clippings, publications, photographs, slides, negatives, correspondence, and blueprints of Foster's house called \"Bromel - La.\"\u003c/abstract\u003e"],"abstract_tesim":["Grant Groves, owner of Color Zone Tropicals, Inc. in Winter Garden Florida, collected materials on Mulford B. Foster. He was a botanist, horticulturist, and a lifelong naturalist, also known as \"Father of the Bromeliad\", born in 1888 in Elmer, New Jersey and passed away at the age of 89 in Orange County, Florida. Collection includes Foster's black \u0026 white sketches, color drawings, oil paintings, three-fold screen art work, news clippings, publications, photographs, slides, negatives, correspondence, and blueprints of Foster's house called \"Bromel - La.\""],"names_ssim":["UCF Special Collections","Groves, Grant","Foster, Mulford B. 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Upon graduation in 1910, he started working as an Associate Editor for Elmer Times. In the early 1920's Foster moved from New Jersey to Florida to work as a landscape architect. He got married to Racine Foster who was also interested in tropical plants and traveled multiple times to Brazil with him in search of rare plants. Following years, he established his own business called the Tropical Arts Nursery. Mr. Foster considered to be Orlando's first landscape architect. As a naturalist explorer, botanist, hybridizer, and plant collector, he traveled most of the United States, as well as other countries in the Americas and discovered over two hundred new species such as cacti, palms, aroids, amaryllis, and bromeliads.","\nMulford wrote a book called \"Brazil - Orchid of the Tropics\" and account his plant-collecting travels in Brazil. He also published articles in the Journal of the Bromeliad Society, the Smithsonian Annual Report, and the National Geographic Magazine. He was also heavily involved in the International Bromeliad Society edited bi-monthly bulletin for twelve years. He received the Herbert Medal for work in promoting amaryllis in 1951. He also received the Reasoner Trophy for outstanding contributions to the ornamental horticulture industry. He was a great artist worked mainly in oil paintings. His work has been exhibited in Orlando, Miami, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He passed away at the age of 89 at his house on Lakeville Road in northwest Orange County, Florida on August 28, 1978. His home was surrounded over four hundred varieties of rare plants which includes the largest collection of living bromeliads in the world.","Processed by Suphi Burak Ogreten; finding aid prepared by Suphi Burak Ogreten.","Archival Collection of Dr. Henry H. Nehrling from the Collection of Michael D. Kahn, 1855-1934","The Bromeliad Society International (BSI) Archive, 1942-2012","Michael A. 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He also received the Reasoner Trophy for outstanding contributions to the ornamental horticulture industry. He was a great artist worked mainly in oil paintings. His work has been exhibited in Orlando, Miami, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. He passed away at the age of 89 at his house on Lakeville Road in northwest Orange County, Florida on August 28, 1978. His home was surrounded over four hundred varieties of rare plants which includes the largest collection of living bromeliads in the world."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eGrant Groves Collection on Mulford B. Foster Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Grant Groves Collection on Mulford B. 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Another letter describes June's doctors and hospital visits in regard to her infections in sinuses and throat. On another occasion, June talks about selling her house and moving from Maryland to California; news clippings from Elmer News where Mulford's father, Samuel P. Foster, contributed articles on a weekly basis; brief plant notes for Tillandsia Dasylirifolia, Tillandsia Grandis, and Tillandsia Butzii; a book called \"Catalogue, 3rd International Exhibition of Botanical Art \u0026amp; Illustration, 12 November 1972 to 30 March 1973\" contains Mulford Foster's short biography and a painting \"Bromelia balansae\"; a little booklet called \"Color Mediums\" published by Talens \u0026amp; Sons, Ltd., provides information on artists' oil colours and identifies most durable binding materials; and two \"Royal Portraits \u0026amp; Testimony\" blue folders which lacks materials inside.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nSeries II: Arts, 1935-1966, Undated, Mulford B. 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He died on 4th May 1936. The Mead Gardens in Winter Park, Florida are dedicated to his memory."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eMichael A. Spencer Collection on Theodore Mead, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Michael A. Spencer Collection on Theodore Mead, Special Collections and University Archives, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida."],"processinfo_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eProcessed by Judith Beale; finding aid prepared by Judith Beale.\t \u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMaterials were placed in pH neutral folders and boxes and fragile items were sleeved in polyester. 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After 35 years of continuous service, Dr. Taylor retired from the University of Central Florida, where he taught a variety of biology courses including, general zoology, invertebrate zoology, ornithology, biodiversity, Florida natural history, local flora, and Florida wildflowers. Upon retirement in 2004, Dr. Taylor was named Professor Emeritus of UCF.","\nIn 1999, Taylor received the University Award Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the highest recognition given by UCF for undergraduate instruction. Many of Taylor's students are actively employed with federal, state, and county environmental agencies and in numerous teaching institutions throughout the U.S. There are several students who have had successful careers and are now retired. Since 2008, Taylor serves as a board member of the Florida Wildflower Foundation.","\nIn 2000, he received the Green Palmetto Award in education from the Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS) and in May 2006 the society presented him the Mentor Award, the highest recognition given by FNPS to an individual member. In February 2000, the Naples Native Plant Society and Naples Botanical Gardens recognized Taylor with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Elucidating the Flora of Florida.","\nTaylor is sought after to give presentations, lead field trips on wildflower identification, and conduct workshops, three held on Florida grasses at UCF's main campus. 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After 35 years of continuous service, Dr. Taylor retired from the University of Central Florida, where he taught a variety of biology courses including, general zoology, invertebrate zoology, ornithology, biodiversity, Florida natural history, local flora, and Florida wildflowers. Upon retirement in 2004, Dr. Taylor was named Professor Emeritus of UCF.\u003c/p\u003e\n","\u003cp\u003e\nIn 1999, Taylor received the University Award Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the highest recognition given by UCF for undergraduate instruction. Many of Taylor's students are actively employed with federal, state, and county environmental agencies and in numerous teaching institutions throughout the U.S. There are several students who have had successful careers and are now retired. 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Currently, he and two colleagues, Charlie Williams and Dr. Eliane Norman are retracing the entire 11-year (1785-1796) stay of Michaux in America.","\nIn 2009, Taylor's A Guide to Florida Grasses was published by the University Press of Florida. Dr. Taylor's most recent book Florida Wildflowers: A Comprehensive Guide was released in April 2013 by the University Press of Florida.","\nDr. Taylor and Karin, wife and companion of 44 years, have traveled widely throughout Florida, having visited all counties and nearly all Florida State Parks seeking Florida's rich and diverse flora and fauna, as well as Florida's past history. 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After 35 years of continuous service, Dr. Taylor retired from the University of Central Florida, where he taught a variety of biology courses including, general zoology, invertebrate zoology, ornithology, biodiversity, Florida natural history, local flora, and Florida wildflowers. Upon retirement in 2004, Dr. Taylor was named Professor Emeritus of UCF.","\nIn 1999, Taylor received the University Award Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the highest recognition given by UCF for undergraduate instruction. Many of Taylor's students are actively employed with federal, state, and county environmental agencies and in numerous teaching institutions throughout the U.S. There are several students who have had successful careers and are now retired. 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