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| Botanic Garden and Herbarium Being Created in Santa Ana Canyon Yorba Linda Star April 5 1929 page 1 |
| Mrs. Bryant Again Entertains Lemon Men's Club at Field Day Meeting The California Citrograph June 1933 |
| Local Ranch is Sanctuary for Flora of State Yorba Linda Star April 20 1934 page 1 |
| Pasture Fire on Bryant Ranch Burns 9 Hours, 160 Acres Yorba Linda Star June 17 1938 page 1 |
| Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Developing into Institution for Serious Scientific Research Yorba Linda Star April 28 1939 page 5 |
| County Home Makers Today Make Tour of Botanic Gardens Yorba Linda Star May 5 1939 page 1 |
| Big Grass Fire Covers 400 Acres of Bryant Ranch Yorba Linda Star September 20 1940 page 1 |
| Fire Sweeps S.A. Canyon and Hills; North Edge Y.L. Singed Yorba Linda Star November 12 1943 |
| A Short History of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden by Philip A. Munz, Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden of the Native Plants of California May 1947 |
| Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Gardens to be Open to Public Yorba Linda Star March 26 1948 page 1 |
| Botanical Garden Opens to Public Yorba Linda Star March 25 1949 page 1 |
| Botanic Garden to Open to Visitors Yorba Linda Star March 17 1950 page 1 |
| Bryant Ranch Tentative Tract Map Approved Following Council Discussion on Area Roads Yorba Linda Star October 7 1978 page 1 |
| Controversial Bryant Ranch as Yet Remains Untouched Yorba Linda Star March 23 1979 page 3 |
| Historic Home Subject of City Excursion Yorba Linda Star February 29 1984 page 1 |
| Bryant Ranch Property: A Look at Its Past Yorba Linda Star March 7 1984 page 3 |
| Susanna Bryant Leaves Botanic Legacy Yorba Linda Star March 14 1984 page 6 |
| Bryant Ranch Project Enters First Phase Yorba Linda Star January 30 1985 page 5 |
| Bryant Ranch Slated to be Museum Yorba Linda Star January 7 1987 page 1 |
| Yorba Ranch Building to be Salvaged Yorba Linda Star February 4 1987 page 1 |
| Bryant Ranch House Museum Opens Yorba Linda Star February 26 1988 page 3 |
| Ranch House has a History Yorba Linda Star December 14 1995 page 8 |
| Bryant Ranch House to Vie for National Registry Yorba Linda Star October 17 1996 page 1 |
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Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Developing into Institution for Serious Scientific ResearchYorba Linda Star April 28 1939 page 5
Among the things Orange county newspaper men learned at the luncheon given them Saturday by Mrs. Susanna Bixby Bryant at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden is that for some time it has been improper to refer to the garden and the great colonial Spanish house, which stands on the shoulder of a hill above the Santa Ana canyon and overlooking the garden, as the property of Mrs. Bryant.
The botanic gardens of the native plants of California consists of about 200 acres, including bottom land, hill sides and hill tops surrounding the mansion-which at the rancho is referred to as the Administration building. This property, together with and endowment set up also by Mrs. Bryant, has been turned over to a legal entity known as the Garden Foundation-which is controlled by a board of five members. They are Allen L. Chickering of San Francisco, Mrs. Bryant, Stuart O'Melveny, Irving M. Walker and Earnest A. Bryant, Jr. Certain portions of the great house have never been reserved by Mrs. Bryant for her own use during her lifetime, but thereafter use of house and garden, as well as ownership, passes absolutely to the foundation.
Already an important feature of the institution is housed in the Administration building. This is the herbarium that contains over 22,000 pressed plant specimen and many supplementary collections of seeds, cones and wood samples.
Thus there is in an advanced stage of development an endowed institution with a serious scientific purpose, almost within a stone's throw of this community.
Soon there will also be housed in the Administration building a library of approximately 2000 botanical books and many periodicals, maps, photographs, and bulletins.
A major activity of the institution is fieldwork in California. A staff of trained botanists devotes a considerable part of each year to the making of field notes in various parts of the state, collecting specimen and obtaining seeds, roots, bulbs or other propagating material which is set out in the nursery, another important part of this institution.
A recent addition to the institution is an assembly hall where visitors may see flower shows and hear lectures, some illustrated with colored lanternslides. Last Saturday a considerable delegation of teachers of life sciences from high schools and other educational institutions from a large part of Southern California visited in the garden and attended the lecture.
Plantings in the garden numbered into the thousands each year. In the dozen years since it was founded by Mrs. Bryant the garden has grown to include over half of all the species of trees, and shrubs native to California, as well as scores of the finest perennials and annuals.
How thoroughly the place is dedicated to native flora one understands when he realizes there isn't a square yard of bluegrass or other kind of lawn about the great house. Research failed to disclose a lawnmower on the place.
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