[BSW] Bradford pears and Next BSW Meeting + Misc.

[Kathy Bilton]

REMEMBER ABOUT PARKING

Parking will no longer be available in the lot at the museum, so if you 
have been accustomed to parking there, you will need to make different 
arrangements.

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Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a 
nightmare. (In which some mentions are made of an early BSW president)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-we-turned-the-bradford-pear-into-a-monster/2018/09/14/f29c8f68-91b6-11e8-b769-e3fff17f0689_story.html?utm_term=.8030fc6d62be
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Tonight's MNPS program at 7:30 in the Kensington Library
Naked Mountain, The Delights and Challenges of Owning a Virginia Natural 
Area Preserve 
https://www.mdflora.org/event-3001466
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Fall plant show and sale this Friday, 9/29 and Saturday, 9/30 at the Lewis
Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond
https://www.lewisginter.org/event/fall-plant-sale/
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Next Botanical Society of Washington meeting:

Tuesday, October 2nd at 7 P.M.

Topic: A Floristic Survey of Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge Center for 
Environmental Stewardship, Purcellville, Loudoun County, Virginia

Speaker: Elizabeth McMurchie

Flier: http://botsoc.org/oct18.pdf