Of keen interest to highway robbers of the day was the company's heavy green treasure box stowed under the driver's seat, where gold bars, coins, financial papers, and the passengers' valuables were stored.
ON YOUR OWN A manicured green treasure in São Paulo's concrete sprawl, the JOCKEY CLUB offers daily horse racing from 2 p.m. to 7 30 p.m. Two patio restaurants sit in front of the finish line, and circulating attendants place bets for you.
"The New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx and Prospect Park in Brooklyn are two of our city's greatest green treasures," said Ms. White, the founding trustee of the foundation, which is named after her husband, who died in 2003.
"The beetle knows no bounds and has no natural enemies, and it now threatens some of the most magnificent living green treasures in New York City," Mr. Benepe said, mentioning the collection of American elms lining the park's Literary Walk, considered one of the country's finest.
At Dresden, he spearheaded the reopening of the historic Green Vault treasure chamber, which had been bombed in World War II; the rebuilding of the ruined royal palace, which is scheduled to be completed in 2013; and the renovation after flood damage of the 16th-century Albertinum, the fine arts museum.
It can be tempting to concentrate on the height-of-summer loveliness, ignoring the fruit, greens, buried treasure, salads and nuts from the other parts of the year.
As the world's rainforests shrink, we have one last place to study these magnificent green inhabitants and treasure their seeds, in the hopes of bringing them back one day.
The plot centers on a French national (Gerard Depardieu) who enters into an arranged marriage with a New York horticulturist (Andie MacDowell) to obtain the treasured green card that will allow him to work.
The piece of green they most treasured was the cover of the Irish passport.
For example, if you treasure your green and black lava lamp, then you could paint the walls green with black accents or have a 1970s theme.
Eugène Green is an international treasure: an American-born French film-maker who, like Manoel De Oliveira, absorbs the stylised, rarefied elegance of classical theatre and brings it to movies about the present day.
