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Bell Shops logo ca. 1930s Zayre store in Addison, Illinois ca. 1980s. Zayre (/ z ɛər /) was a chain of discount stores that operated in the eastern half of the United States from 1956 to 1990. The company's headquarters were in Framingham, Massachusetts.
The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre (156 ha) botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.
Name Image Affiliation City Coordinates Anderson Japanese Gardens: Rockford: Bethalto Arboretum Bethalto: Cantigny: Wheaton: Century Park Arboretum Vernon Hills
Designed by noted Chicago architect Harry Weese, the Sterling Morton Library [18] was constructed in 1963 and named after Sterling Morton, son of founder Joy Morton. [19] It holds more than 30,000 books and magazines , as well as tens of thousands of non-book items including prints , original art, letters, photographs, landscape plans and drawings.
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The free public show is every year during Labor Day weekend at the Chicago Botanic Garden. [8] [7] [9] The monthly newsletter has been called Fungus Friends since 1993, but was published before then without a title. [3] The newsletter is where the details for the locations for the forays are listed.
After a frost, store these in their pots, keeping the soil barely moist. Or trim off the stems, dig up the bulbs, and wrap in peat moss, storing at temperatures around 40 to 50 degrees. These include:
The Chicago Botanic Garden became well known for its impact on landscape architecture. [2] The botanic garden was built from an unpleasant source of land in Glencoe, Illinois . "The site covers over 300 acres, featuring a series of island gardens with an administration and visitor education center on the largest island."