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Trexler, John

John Wheaton Trexler held a degree in Ornamental Horticulture from Delaware Valley University, Doylestown, PA. He developed his extraordinary knowledge of plants and garden design from his seven years experience at Skylands Farm in Ringwood, NJ, the former estate of Clarence McKenzie Lewis, where he worked on the restoration of several gardens. Additionally, John spent six years at the Morris County Park Commission, Morristown, NJ, restoring Bamboo Brook, the residential garden of landscape architect, Martha Brookes Hutcheson. John's twenty-five years developing Tower Hill Botanic Garden are a distinct reflection of these remarkable gardens. John was named Founding Director of Tower Hill Botanic Garden and currently held the title of Executive Director Emeritus of the Worcester County Horticultural Society.

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Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years

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NO TYPE OF BUILDING—pyramid, skyscraper, palace—presents so many challenges as the design, construction and sustenance of a botanic garden. John Trexler’s Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years traces the metamorphosis of a venerable urban horticultural institution, the Worcester County Horticultural Society founded in 1842, into the ever-evolving Tower Hill Botanic Garden, which opened in 1986.

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