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A Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa), styled by Dan Robinson and in training since 1966, evokes
the rigors of a tree’s life in the American west.
Government entities also added to the museum’s North American collection.
The U.S. Forest Service commemorated its 75th anniversary by giving a
Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa) to the museum in 1980. The Ponderosa Pine
grows widely in the American west and is the state tree of Montana. The gift to
the museum was collected and styled by Dan Robinson, a west coast bonsai
artist. In training since 1966, its dynamic shape evokes the adverse weather
conditions these trees typically experience in the wild.
Vaughn Banting (1947–2008) was a student of John Naka and an ardent
museum supporter. A native of Saskatchewan, Canada, he moved with his
family to New Orleans, Louisiana, where they operated a plant nursery. Banting
wanted to embark on a career in ornamental horticulture and landscape

architecture but his studies were interrupted by service in the Vietnam War, for
which he was awarded a Purple Heart. He returned to civilian life in Louisiana
and his love of bonsai, and worked with Yuji Yoshimura.
Among his contributions to the museum was a Bald-cypress (Taxodium
distichum). The Bald-cypress is a deciduous conifer, meaning it loses its feathery
needles for the winter. As an immature tree, Bald-cypresses have a Christmas
tree-like shape, but as they age they shed their lower branches and their crowns
spread, creating an unmistakable flat-top silhouette familiar to anyone who has
visited the swamps of America’s southeastern states. Banting’s bonsai version