PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION/PLANTING FIELDS ARBORETUM, OYSTER BAY, NY WINTER/SPRING 2018 NEWSLETTER

The original 1906 mansion aT PlanTing Fields was desTroyed by Fire in march 1918 and was rePlaced by COE HALL Board oF TrusTees WE WARMLY WELCOME officers michael d. coe TWO NEW TRUSTEES Chairman lisa c. scully hal davidson Lisa C. Scully is the owner of the Locust Valley President Bookstore and is a graduate from St. George’s Peter Tiberio School, Newport, Rhode Island and Wheaton Treasurer College, Norton Massachusetts. She is a trustee of St. George’s School and in 2006 she was the John casaly recipient of the Howard B. Dean Award for Secretary volunteer service. Lisa’s professional experience includes working with Institutional Investor Magazine, International Media Partners, and Trustees Fortune Magazine. She was the editor of the local hannah burns community newspaper based in Locust Valley, carol m. canter The Leader, where she is currently a contributing mary ciullo writer. Lisa is married to David B. Scully, and robert Foschi when they are not catering to the needs of their margaret Frere six children, they enjoy spending time in Maine Thomas J. golon and the Adirondacks. constance haydock david r. holmes, Jr. roberT b. macKay, Phd mary macdonald Robert B. MacKay, PhD, is an author, historian, robert macKay and former director of the Society for the Jeffrey lee moore Preservation of Long Island Antiquities, now andrew F. nevin known as Preservation Long Island. Robert is a graduate of Boston University where he received lisa c. scully his Doctorate in American and New England stephen h. watters studies. In 2009, Robert was selected by The Julia weidinger Preservation League of New York State to receive a Jennifer a. wiggins Preservation award for individual Excellence in Historic Preservation, honoring his outstanding ex officio achievements that have helped to preserve Long henry b. Joyce Island’s cultural heritage. He is the author of Executive Director, several books including Long Island Country Houses Planting Fields Foundation and Their Architects, 1860-1940, Great Yachts of Long Island’s North Shore, Gardens of Eden: Long Island’s Early Twentieth-Century Planned Communities. Robert Vincent a. simeone is a resident of Cold Spring Harbor, New York. Director, Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park (Cover) 1910 photograph of the Byrne Mansion, Planting Fields Foundation archive collection. (Opposite) Cymbidium orchid in the Main Greenhouse.

2 FEATURED STORIES 6

COE HOME BURNED The 1906 house was designed by New York City architect Grosvenor Atterbury (1869- 1956) who, after Yale trained as an architect at Columbia University and in Paris. 10

SAMUEL YELLIN It is the ironwork at Coe Hall which is such a fine testament to Yellin's commitment to the very best traditions

ed FooTe of blacksmithing.

3 Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney with her bronze sculpture, Buffalo Bill – The Scout, about 1923, before it was shipped to Cody, WY.

4 message From The execuTiVe direcTor DEAR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS

I hope you have enjoyed visiting us over the last year, whether to experience the gardens and Coe Hall, or attend one of our concerts or lectures, or all of the above!

Last year, for the first time we celebrated Halloween at Coe Hall with both day-time and evening events. At night the rooms of Coe Hall appeared romantic and mysterious with eerie music throughout, and volunteer actors dressed in ghostly costumes. On the ground floor were special displays of Venitas and Momento Mori images from the past.

In June we will open the exhibition “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: Sculpture”. The artist is best known as the founder of New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art, yet she had a significant career as a sculptor, exhibiting throughout the United States and Europe, receiving major commissions and prizes. We will feature over thirty sculptures and drawings. This is the first exhibition of Whitney’s art since her death in 1942. William R. Coe knew Mrs. Whitney and was involved in the commission of the larger than life equestrian sculpture of Buffalo Bill in Cody, Wyoming.

With best wishes,

Henry B. Joyce Executive Director, Planting Fields Foundation

5 (Above) Planting Fields Foundation archive Collection, New York Times article, 1918. (Opposite top) 1906 House at Planting Fields from circular pool looking north. (Opposite bottom) Coe Hall in 2018 from circular pool looking north. 6 7 PLANTING FIELDS’ 1906 MANSION burned down in 1918

by henry b. Joyce

The house was designed by New York City architect Grosvenor Atterbury (1869-1956) who, after Yale trained as an architect at Columbia University and in Paris. Before setting up his own firm in 1895, he worked for McKim, Mead & White. Atterbury’s father, Charles, a lawyer, owned a summer house near Southampton, and so as a youngster, Grosvenor knew Long Island where, as an architect, he built much of his country house work.

Atterbury designed the Planting Fields house in 1906 for corporate lawyer, James Byrne, and his wife, Helen. The house was rented by Mr. and Mrs. Coe starting in 1910, and then purchased by them in 1913. The mansion was one of Atterbury’s largest and most picturesque designs. His country house work stems from both the Shingle and Arts and Crafts Styles with an element of Beaux-Arts planning. At Planting Fields the deep overhanging roof lines, over-baked ‘lammie’ brick and half-timbering recall old English vernacular buildings, but are used by Atterbury in the creation of a singularly American architectural expression. A friend (Above) Grosvenor atterbury (Opposite top) Living room in 1906 house looking south. of Atterbury’s, architect Aymar Embury II, noted that (Opposite bottom) Living room in 1906 house looking east Planting Fields was “so wonderfully charming in every towards entrance. way that no single viewpoint serves to bring out all of its delightful features”.

8 9 10 SAMUEL YELLIN meTalworK aT coe hall

by henry b. Joyce

Arts and Crafts Movement metalwork, door handles, locks, railing, and fire screens

The 1920 mansion at Planting Fields is often characterized as an expression of the Beaux-Arts style, which to a large extent it is; with its historicizing references, its axial plan centered on the front door and its lavish scale. But the house also owes a significant debt to the Arts and Crafts Movement with its passion for traditional hand-made elements of decoration including the finely carved stone sculpture on the exterior and extensive carved wood designs in several rooms.

Another less obvious feature of the Arts and Crafts Movement at Coe Hall is the prevalence of fine metalwork, door handles, locks, railing, and fire screens, many of which were made by the Yellin Metalworker Studio in Philadelphia. The studio’s founder was the extraordinarily talented Samuel Yellin (1884-1940). He was a Jewish immigrant from Poland, much of which in the late nineteenth century was part of the Russian Empire. Yellin’s father was a lawyer, and as a boy, Samuel attended an arts and crafts school where his drawing ability flourished, and aged eleven he was apprenticed to a Russian blacksmith. By the age of 17, he was a master smith.

(Above) Yellin at his arch street studio anvil around 1925, the year he received the Philadelphia Civic award. (Opposite) Wrought iron detail by the main staircase by the Yellin Metalworker studio.

11 12 In art circles in Russia, there was tremendous interest in the English Arts and Crafts Movement and innt William Morris’s passion for traditional craft techniques and designs. The Movement spread to Russia where many artists became focused on reviving ancient Russian inspired styles of design. These two trends in art and design had a profound and enduring influence on Yellin’s work in metal. Prior to coming to America in 1906, age twenty-two, Yellin traveled widely in Europe and in England to see art and architecture so that when he arrived here, he was already a highly skilled metalworker with a sophisticated knowledge of old and new art and design.

Once in Philadelphia, where his mother and sisters were already living, Yellin found a job teaching studio classes in wrought iron at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art. It was there that both his English language skills and his design skills developed and he became part of a community of artists and craftsmen. He also met architects who would later give him commissions for work. By 1909 he had set up his first forge, but at the time there was limited demand for high-quality decorative wrought iron, and what there was, generally came from England where there had been a flourishing tradition in fancy wrought iron production for over two hundred years. Examples are the (Top) samuel Yellin (right) at the anvil. (Bottom) detail from a fire screen at English-made Carshalton Gates Coe Hall. from about 1710, which are now at (Opposite) The Yellin firm’s fireplace Planting Fields. bench and fire screen in the Gallery.

13 From the beginning of his business career, Yellin established the importance of creating exact and elaborate drawings for the designs of his company’s forged work. In a photograph of Yellin and some staff in his studio (at left)—they are surrounded by drawings, plaster casts, and photographs. The image is a reminder that the Yellin firm’s production is rooted in the tradition of using sources from the past as ideas for his contemporary work. His firm’s drawings would also be used to show off his capabilities to potential clients, especially to architects who might incorporate his work into their projects.

A photo of Yellin from several years later shows him in his studio surrounded by his newly made artifacts and Windsor chairs which are emblematic of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Around him are metal light fixtures, made in his factory, and ancient arms and armor above the door. He amassed one of the finest collections of antique ironwork in the country which served as a study collection for his staff, and some of which he eventually gave to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

From about 1910 his Philadelphia friends gave him introductions to several New York architects and so his long and successful career was launched. In 1920 when he first (Top) Photograph of samuel Yellin (second from left) with his designers. (Bottom) samuel Yellin in his Philadelphia office. worked at Coe Hall for Walker &

14 Gillette, he had over fifty employees and about two hundred jobs. Ten years later at the height of his career and just before the Great Crash, he had more than 250 employees (within two years it had dropped to fifty again and continued to decline through the 1940s).

Several letters, bills and drawings about his work for W. R. Coe survive in various archival collections including the Foundation’s. But it is the finished work at Coe Hall which is such a fine testament to Yellin's commitment to the very best traditions of blacksmithing. His firm’s finest pieces here are the ornamental lock on the inner front doors, the banister rail for the main staircase, a fireplace bench and four fireplace screens. The front door (Top left) The Yellin firm’s design proposal for the den fire screen. lock appropriately features a relief (Above) 1920’s photo of the den fireplace with the Yellin firm’s bench and fire screen.

15 image of a guard and an animal head, perhaps a fox with its Den, in front of Yellin’s fire screen inscription, as though spoken by neck becoming the barley-twist iron which is still here in the collection. the figure, treads of the rail, and ending with an artfully entwined tail. The Yellin The Yellin firm produced ironwork “If I had y gift of tongue bench in the Gallery is an Arts and for fine buildings up and down the I would declare and do no wrong Crafts Movement form which East Coast, some of his best work is became ubiquitous between about at the Federal Reserve Building in Who y are y come by stealth 1880 and 1930 in fine English and Manhattan, and the firm worked for To impair my master’s wealth.” American houses. It seems to have a veritable “who’s who” of American been a favorite of the Coes since in industrialists; Vanderbilt at Eagle’s The staircases wrought iron rail was 1929 they commissioned another for Nest, on Long Island, Rockefeller in expertly made to wind its way up the the Den. The second one does not Pocantico Hills, Mellon in circular form of the stairs around its survive at Coe Hall, but an undated Pittsburgh, DuPont in Wilmington central column, starting with an photograph shows it in situ, in the and Eastman in Rochester.

(Above) entrance hall door lockbox by samuel Yellin’s firm. (Far Right) The Yellin firm’s staircase rail. (Right) detail of the staircase rail.

16 WEST GUEST BEDROOM reFurbished aT coe hall

(Above) The West Guest Bedroom newly restored in 2017. (Left) The West Guest Bedroom before restoration.

17 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Please visit our website at www.plantingfields.org for more information

APRIL

saT. & sun., aPriL 28 & 29, 2018 ARBOR DAY FAMILY FESTIVAL 11:00aM – 4:00PM rain or shine / $20 per vehicle The 2018 arbor day Family Festival features live music by the crowd’s favorites Peat moss and the Fertilizers, performances by the national circus Project, the muttville comix dog show, kid’s tree climb by wonderland Tree care, petting zoo, face painting, caricaturists, plant clinics, tree plantings MARCH with smokey the bear, Free self-guided CAMELLIA FESTIVAL visits of coe hall. The festival is a sundaY, MarCH 4TH, 2018 / 11:00am – 4:00pm collaborative effort between Planting entrance to the Park, Camellia House, Main Greenhouse and Fields Foundation and the new york Hay Barn is Free. state office of Parks, recreation and historic Preservation. $20 per car load; CAMELLIA HOUSE: Free aCTiViTies 11:00am – 4:00pm once inside the park all activities are enjoy live music with alan & hugo, brooklyn Flamenco guitarists & Quatrain Free! For more information contact barbershop Quartet throughout the day. Jennifer lavella at (516) 922-8678 or 12:00PM & 2:00PM: mike runkel discusses the camellias email [email protected] 1:00PM & 3:00PM: henry b. Joyce talks about the camellia house

MAIN GREENHOUSE: Free aCTiViTies 11:00am – 4:00pm escape the cold and enjoy steel drum music in the beautiful main greenhouse all day from 11:00am - 4:00pm with robert from steeldrummania!

HAY BARN: Free aCTiViTies 11:00am – 4:00pm children’s face painting with Fancy Faces by Kathy. interactive live family music with Paul helou.

COE HALL: ($10 enTranCe Fee inCLudes aLL aCTiViTies) 11:00am – 4:00pm members and children under 12 are free. enjoy a watercolor workshop for children with roberta erlagen, the mad hatter’s Tea Party & storytelling with Jonathan Kruk & andrea sadler featuring, and be amazed by robert austin’s magic in the great hall!

MAGIC OF ROBERT AUSTIN IN THE GREAT HALL: 1:00pm, 2:00 pm, & 3:00pm general seating, no reservations needed. see live animals disappear! robert will suspend someone in mid-air!

18 MAY sundaY, MaY 20, 2018 sundaY, MaY 27, 2018 MAY MUSIC AT COE HALL MAY MUSIC AT COE HALL Quatrain Barbershop Quartet Johnny Herbert, sundaY, MaY 6, 2018 1:00pm – 3:00pm / $5 admission fee, piano and ukelele MAY MUSIC AT COE HALL members and children under 12 are free 1:00pm – 3:00pm / $5 admission fee, Alan & Hugo, members and children under 12 are free Flamenco Guitarists Quatrain is a barbershop quartet formed by four new york guys who have been Johnny herbert is a graduate from usc 1:00pm – 3:00pm / $5 admission fee, singing together for more than 40 years. Thornton school of music in los members and children under 12 are free They have an extensive song list, most of angeles, Johnny has studied and Visit historic coe hall and relax in the which was written between 1890 and performed classical piano music for over great hall to listen to the amazing duo 1940. Their outfits are traditional 20 years and also plays the ukulele. calendar oF eVenTs of alan & hugo, brooklyn flamenco barbershop, and their smiles will light up Johnny can play and sing standards from guitarists. driving spanish rumba any event. Quatrain has performed at gershwin, Frank sinatra, stevie wonder, rhythms mixed with spicy latin grooves venues, such as carnegie hall, and the and the beatles. For more information create the soundscape for “salvo & rainbow room in new york city. For call max Fogel (516) 922-8668 or hugo.” inspired by world fusion— more information call max Fogel (516) 922- [email protected] drawing from Flamenco, spanish/ 8668 or [email protected] classical, latin and bossa nova, the band plays a mix of original and remixed songs from artists such as the gipsy Kings, buena Vista social club and ottmar liebert among others. For more information call max Fogel (516) 922- 8668 or [email protected] sundaY, MaY 13, 2018 MAY MUSIC AT COE HALL Jack Kohl, pianist 1:00pm – 3:00pm / $5 admission fee, members and children under 12 are free Jack Kohl is a pianist and author from the north shore of long island. he began piano studies with saTurdaY, MaY 26, 2018 (MeMoriaL daY Weekend) marie babiak of seaford. he FREE CONCERT IN THE PARK continued with Finn Acoustically Correct, a Tom Petty Tribute augensen; leonard 6:00pm – 7:30pm, Coe Hall Front Lawn / restrooms at Main Greenhouse eisner (Juilliard Pre-college division); bm Free / no Parking Fee / no reservations required under gerald robbins (Queens bring a chair, blanket, and an outdoor picnic to enjoy great upbeat music and the college/cuny); and mm and dma in beauty at Planting Fields and exterior of coe hall. coe hall is closed during the piano under w. John williams (university concert. restrooms are available at the main greenhouse. For more information of south carolina). he was president of contact Jennifer lavella at (516)922-8678 or [email protected] the northport running club (2007 - 2009) and continues to be one of its proud members. mr. Kohl is also a prominent presence in the musical JOIN, RENEW OR GIVE theater world, appearing as a music THE GIFT OF MEMBERSHIP! director and pianist for many broadway- members receive free and discounted admission to many of our credited actors and singers. For more year round events, exclusive invitations, and discounts at the information call max Fogel (516) 922- garden gift shop and local garden centers. 8668 or [email protected]

19 RECENT EVENTS

HAUNTED HALLOWEEN DAYS AND NIGHTS AT COE HALL

In October 2017, Coe Hall Halloween has been celebrated in the Even our volunteers embraced the opened its majestic doors United States for over one hundred Halloween spirit and wore costumes to visitors with a new event, years, since the time Coe Hall was to greet visitors. Haunted Halloween Days built. Traditional jack o’ lanterns and Nights at Coe Hall. were used to decorate the house as At night, the rooms of Coe Hall well as images from Gothic literature came alive with ghostly decorations, and a special display of Vanitas special effects, and live musical celebrating a time when the performances each evening. Visitors boundary between this world and explored the macabre mansion the Otherworld thins, reminding where they encountered ghoulish people of the transience of life, the spirits of the Otherworld. Visitors futility of pleasure and the certainty who dared to enter were guaranteed of death. a spine-tingling event.

During the day our guests enjoyed Mark your calendars for this year self-guided tours of Coe Hall to when the Foundation will be hosting enjoy all the Halloween decorations. another Haunted Halloween event.

Coe Hall staff and volunteers (left to right): kathy LaForgia, Madeline strasser, rose stein, elsa eisenberg, Carole kelly, Christine destantis, andrea Crivello.

20 Volunteer actors from alpha epsilon Phi sorority, Barnard College, nY.

21 RECENT EVENTS Continued from previous page deCk THe HaLLs

Cece Haydock and Margaret Frere andrew and amos nevin ann and stephen Watters robert and Margaret Foschi

stephen and Carol Canter

PFF Board President Hal davidson Guests on the dancefloor

Guests of scotts Miracle Gro kate doerge, allison aston Guests of aarP and Liz Walker swenson, co-chairs

22 HoLidaY FesTiVaL aT Coe HaLL HoLidaY Tree LiGHTinG

robin Fisher

23 RECENT EVENTS Continued from previous page

HoLidaY FesTiVaL aT Coe HaLL MusiC aT THe Mansion ConCerT

Paradise FesTiVaL

24 THANK YOU To our generous 2017 suPPorTers

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Thomas manahan ms. anita Freidman mr. richard Kessler mr. & mrs. mark manas mr. & mrs. marty Friedman mr. Jeffrey Keutmann ms. Janice marcin mr. & mrs. david Fuchs mrs. Joan Keville ms. christine mare ms. maria Fulton ms. masha Khazan mrs. eileen marino ms. sara Furman ms. luann Kidder mrs. irene markland ms. Kathleen gallagher ms. saundra Kimball mr. & mrs. Joseph marriott ms. rosemarie gallego ms. Jean King ms. nancy marshall & mr. & mrs. christoper garcia mr. & mrs. george Kirchmann mr. robert greenberg mr. Jim garrahan ms. svetlana Klakotskaia ms. susan martin greenman-Pedersen, inc. ms. marian hershey mr. & mrs. roddy Klotz mr. & mrs. emilio martinez mr. gary garson ms. Katherine herzog mr. & mrs. Fred Knapp ms. nancy massar mr. charles garufi ms. maryelene hickey ms. Jannette Knowles ms. susan materdomini mr. & mrs. Jack geagan mr. michael high mr. & mrs. robert Koehler ms. Theresa mathes mr. & mrs. 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Philip gund mr. Kenneth Jensen ms. dawn lind mr. & mrs. Jeffrey moore mr. & mrs. william guterding mr. & mrs. geoffrey Jervis ms. amanda linder mr. & mrs. Patrick moran mr. & mrs. al hammer ms. diana Jindra ms. margaret lindner mr. Keith morgan ms. gloria hammond dr. lawrence F. Jindra ms. Virginia lipuma mr. & mrs. John morrison mr. Tim hanson mr. & mrs. harold Johnson mr. James litke ms. Joan morson ms. lois harold mrs. Karen Johnson mr. bill little ms. deborah morson mr. & mrs. richard harris mr. & mrs. John Johnston new york state department of mr. & mrs. will morton ms. Joan harrison mr. & mrs. hoyle Jones environmental conservation ms. Victoria moses mr. & mrs. randolph harrison mr. & mrs. hugh Jones ms. Judith lloyd ms. m. Teresa motta mr. & mrs. Vincent hartley ms. sara Jones ms. marie lobosco mr. meir mowlem ms. Jessica harvey ms. christine Kadtke ms. mary lombardo mrs. eleanor muellers mr. James hauser mr. 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26 mr. & mrs. michael nicoll ms. celeste richards ms. Pamela smith mr. & mrs. william Titus mr. & mrs. ronald nielsen mr. charles richardson mr. & mrs. alexander smith minuteman Press international inc. ms. anita nigro mr. & mrs. Joseph rind ms. Pamela smith mr. gary Titus dr. & mrs. barry nobel ms. Karina rios ms. Kimberly smith ms. Jill Toby mr. scott norby mr. & mrs. stewart roberts mr. christopher smith ms. ellen Tollefsen mrs. Jocelyn nuttall ms. Joan robertson mr. barry smith mr. lam Tom mr. & mrs. william o'hanlon ms. deborah robotton mr. & mrs. baldy smith nisen sushi mr. & mrs. wright ohrstrom mr. & mrs. ray rodriguez ms. linda smith mr. & mrs. Peter Tomforde mr. & mrs. hugh o'Kane mr. & mrs. aaron rose dr. & mrs. lawrence snow mr. & mrs. Pascal Tone hugh o'Kane electric company, inc. ms. marilyn rose mr. & mrs. doug snyder John and catherine naudin Foundation mr. & mrs. John o'Kane m. h. rose interiors ltd. mr. robert sog mr. michael Toner mr. & mrs. michael o'Kane ms. rochelle rosenbloom ms. margaret Joan sola ms. christine Torinese ms. Julia o'Keeffe drs. matthew rosman ms. shelia solinsky mrs. betty Torre mr. stanley oleksiak mr. & mrs. cye ross ms. marilyn solomon mr. & mrs. michael Torti mr. John olin morris Kirschner Perpetual mr. michael solomowitz mr. & mrs. david Townsend ms. ricki olshan charitable Trust ms. nathalie solzberg mr. & mrs. norman Trabulus mr. & mrs. Frank olt mrs. sarane ross, President ms. maureen sonne mr. Joel Traugot mrs. christine o'neill The barker welfare Foundation mr. & mrs. norman sorenson dr. & mrs. alex Traykovski mr. & mrs. george o'neill ms. Judy rourke mrs. merle soulotis ms. Valerie Trentin The rockefeller Trust company mr. & mrs. bertram rowley mr. richard specht ms. irena Trzcialkowska mrs. louise o'rourke mr. george rowe mr. & mrs. alan spiegel mr. chris Tubertini mr. lawrence o'rourke The ambrose monell Foundation mr. & mrs. seymour spiegel ubm community connection Foundation mrs. barry osborn dr. gary rudolph ms. Karen spiegel dr. elliot udell mr. John ostendorf ms. marian rupp mr. barrie curtis spies mr. robert upbin mr. & mrs. gilbert ott mr. alan rust mr. & mrs. mark spiess ms. stephanie Valentine dr. diana Papademas-Kirckpatrick mr. hollis F. russell mr. Jeffrey spindler mrs. Kathleen Van Valkenburg ms. angelina Judy Paris william c. and Joyce c. o'neil mr. gerry spink ms. laura Varrichio & mr. Jack duffy mr. Kwang Park charitable Trust north country garden club of li inc. ms. suzanne Vasata s&i Property management, llc ms. nancy rutigliano mr. & mrs. Tom stacey mr. & mrs. 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28 ASIAN DECORATION AT COE HALL by andrea criVello

Beginning in the 17th Coe Hall has a fine example of an Two side chairs were recently re- century Asian inspired Asian black lacquer cabinet near upholstered with fabric selected artifacts became the Writing Room. The cabinet with chinoiserie scenes which increasingly sought features pictorial landscapes and compliment the cabinet and unites after in Europe. gilded metal fittings. Common the pieces. The reupholstery work themes of this style incorporate was completed by Suzanne Ponzini garden scenes, landscapes, and who has worked on several textile figures. restoration projects at Coe Hall.

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(From left to right) detail of black lacquer cabinet featuring a pagoda, detail of the side chair reupholstery in the chinoiserie style.

29 IN THE WOODS AT PLANTING FIELDS by lilly mcgurK

There is something quite tiny seeds that can only germinate specular about the wild pink and mature in the right habitat and ladyslipper, Cypripedium with the presence of a symbiotic fungus (mycorrhizal fungi). Many acaule (C.acaule), named for seeds lay dormant for years waiting its shoe-shaped blossoms. for the right soil conditions to It is a member of the orchid occur. This particular fungi aids genus, Cypripedium and is with the transfer of water, and native to woodland areas nutrients. In exchange the mature orchid will provide carbohydrates along the north shore of to the fungus through its roots. It Long Island. can take many years for a ladyslipper to flower as growth is The ladyslipper is a terrestrial slow, but once established they can herbaceous perennial that begins to live for many years. emerge here at Planting Fields mid to late May usually near pine trees Due to these particular soil or conifers. Pollination is a conditions that the ladyslipper challenge and requires the aid of requires it makes it almost the stoutly bumble bee who can impossible to replicate and push itself into the closed flower prevents it from becoming a blossoms and brush up against the suitable plant to cultivate in garden stamen picking up pollen. Once the landscapes. It is a distinct native plant has been successfully flower on Long Island and deserves Pink-flowered Ladyslipper orchid. pollinated it produces thousands of its place in the woods.

GIFT SHOP riTa mulhall, giFT shoP manager

New merchandise is on display in the something for everyone! Music boxes, Gift Shop from my recent trip to the floral tote bags and parakeet NY-Now winter market held at the keepsakes trinket boxes are just a few Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of our newly added items. this past February. With so many vendors present and a vast selection Members, don’t forget about of items to choose from I am sure your 10% discount on all that the Gift Shop will have Gift Shop purchases!

30 PLANTING FIELDS FOUNDATION STAFF

Henry B. Joyce Executive Director Tel: 516-922-0479 [email protected]

Andrea Crivello Curatorial Assistant Tel: 516-922-8684 [email protected] entrance to Coe Hall. Elsa Eisenberg Group Tour and Volunteer Coordinator Tel: 516-922-8670 WELCOME NEW STAFF MEMBERS [email protected]

Maximillian Fogel maximillian Fogel art, working on their “out of the Vault, 25 Fields Trip and Events Coordinator Field TriP and eVenT years of collecting”, “The moderns”, and Tel: 516-922-8668 [email protected] coordinaTor “Kenny scharf cosmic cave” exhibits. max is responsible for Laraine Giardina managing all of the Finance Manager children’s programming, riTa mulhall Tel: 516-922-8672 including the very popular giFT shoP manager [email protected] nature sunday’s summer rita graduated from program, as well as all the baruch college with a bba Jennifer Lavella school field trips in computer methodology Director of Marketing and Special Events throughout the year. in addition, max assists and spent the majority of Tel: 516-922-8678 with many of the special events and is the her career as a [email protected] creator of newly added “haunted halloween programmer analyst with Lilly McGurk nights at coe hall” where he designed the Pfizer, chase bank, and Director of Membership and Development rooms of coe hall to thrill everyone who morgan stanley. since retiring, she spends Tel: 516-922-8676 dared to enter. his goal is to make every much of her time volunteering and is currently [email protected] visitor’s experience an unforgettable one! a driver for Fish, a community program that he graduated from suny Plattsburg with a drives residents to their doctor’s Rita Mulhall bachelor’s degree in anthropology and is appointments, as an extraordinary minister of Gift Shop Manager currently earning his master’s degree in urban holy communion at our lady of Victory Tel: 516-922-2345 studies at cuny Queens college. he began church, and is also a member of the Floral [email protected] working in the museum field as a Preparator’s Park Junior woman’s club which holds Rosemarie Papayanopulos assistant at suny Plattsburgh’s art museum various fundraisers to provide scholarships to Librarian and as an intern at the battle of Plattsburgh local high schools, care packages to the Tel: 516-922-8631 museum. max also worked on two military, donations for Queens children’s archeological field schools during his studies hospital and hosts the annual Floral Park Evergreen is published by at Plattsburgh. christmas Tree lighting event. rita is married Planting Fields Foundation. to Peter, who is a new york city Fire copyright © 2018 Previously, he was the museum coordinator department chief. They have been residents at the sands Point Preserve, and was an art of Floral Park for the past 33 years where they handler for the nassau county museum of raised their three children. Planting Fields Foundation 1395 Planting Fields road P.o. box 660 oyster bay, ny 11771 www.plantingfields.org Mission sTaTeMenT Tel: 516-922-9210 Planting Fields Foundation collaborates with the new york Fax: 516-922-9226 state office of Parks, recreation and historic Preservation to preserve and interpret Planting Fields arboretum state historic Park as a premier long island gold coast estate and arboretum by providing educational and enriching experiences. 31 non-ProFiT orG. u.s. PosTaGe P.o. box 660, oysTer bay, ny 11771 Paid HunTinGTon, n.Y. PerMiT no. 14

Main Greenhouse in spring. © bill barash

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