Word: aboretum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...garden were divided and separated from the parent, in all cases becoming eventually greater departments, through the energy of one or more devoted workers who gained their first inspiration at the Garden. Thus there grew from the seed at the Garden the Summer School, Gray Herbarium, Arnold Aboretum, Botanical Museum, Plant Physiology, and the teaching of botany, all long planted in more favorable locations and now well developed. The purposes now served by these departments were once centered at the Garden, and probably no other department of the University has been so prolific a source of offspring...