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Our 21st Annual
BOYS & GIRLS AGES 6-17
AIR-CONDITIONED
NEW
SHOWS
FOR
2016!
ALL CHILDREN’S THEATRE
PERFORMING ARTS
DAY CAMPS
2-Two Week Sessions • 8am - 5pm • Monday-Friday
WATCHUNG ARTS CENTER
at the WATCHUNG CIRCLE
ADDITIONAL CAMPSITES IN CLINTON, METUCHEN AND PARSIPPANY
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Supervised by Certified Teachers
Singing, Dancing, Acting,
Scenery Design,
Public Performance(s), Cast Party
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(973) 335-5328
JERSEY
ARTS
DRAMA/ACTING CAMP
August 1 - August 12
BROADWAY KIDS CAMP
August 15 - August 26
What symbolizes the beauty of
spring more than flowers? There
are many botanical gardens and
arboretums throughout New Jersey
where you can take in the beauty
of nature and leave with the spirit
of spring inside you. Following are
a sampling of nearby gardens
worth experiencing:
Leonard J. Buck Gardens
Far Hills
New Jersey’s premier rock gardens
displaying ecological and beautiful
alpine and wooded gardens on 33
acres.
Colonial Park Arboretum
and Gardens, East Millstone
144 acres of labeled specimen
trees, shrubs. Featuring a Sensory
Garden for the visually impaired, a
5-acre garden of flowers and grass-
es plus a formal rose garden dis-
playing more than 3,000 roses.
Cross Estate Gardens
Bernardsville
Formal and native gardens, plants,
trees and ornamental grasses.
Frelinghuyson Arboretum
Morristown
Native and exotic plants abound in
these 127-acre informal gardens.
Its buildings and grounds offer a
glimpse into Morristown’s late
Victorian era.
Garden for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, Iselin
Sensory garden with Braille signs.
Separate sections for summer,
primrose, rose, spring, rock, peren-
nials and annuals. A Circle of
Senses garden features plants all at
waist level.
Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills
Located at the Greenwood Estate,
adjacent to Short Hills Park, a con-
temporary garden with a nod to
the Arts and Crafts and classical
approaches to design. 28 acres of
winding paths take visitors through
Italianate garden terraces, grottoes,
ornamental trees and shrubs, and
wildflower meadows.
Reeves-Reed Arboretum
Summit
A living museum featuring historic
buildings and 13.5 acres of pastoral
lawns, wooded trails and historic
gardens.
Rutgers Gardens
New Brunswick
180-acre public garden on the RU
campus with a wide variety of
trees, shrubs and flowers.
Rudolf W. van der Goot Rose
Garden, Somerset
144-acre arboretum, including a
fragrance and sensory garden, and
a perennial garden with 285 vari-
eties of roses.
Wagner Farm Arboretum
Warren
Trees, shrubs and flowers set in the
beauty of Warren, including a but-
terfly garden.
Willow Wood Arboretum
Chester
130 acres with 3,500 native and
exotic plants and trees. Adjacent to
the Bamboo Brook Outdoor
Education Center.
FLOWER POWER
Exploring Gardens
in the Garden State
By: Jill Stolz
Flowers always make people better, happier,
and more helpful. They are sunshine, food
and medicine for the soul.
– Luther Burbank
Earth laughs in flowers
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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