Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor C. S. Sargent, of the Arnold Arboretum, editor of "Garden and Forest," is editing the miscellaneous scientific papers of Asa Gray. The first volume, which will appear in the spring, will contain the late professor's reviews of works in botany and related subjects between...
...summer course of the Botanical Department is well supplying a longfelt need, and the new quarters of this department will render it even more efficient. Owing to the delay of the Park Commissioners in building roads, the Arnold Arboretum was delayed the past summer in its work of planting trees...
...Francisco, overlooking the head of the bay and not far from Menlo Park, the country home of several prominent Californians. It occupies the rolling slopes of the low hills of one of the interior coast ranges. In addition to the immediate surroundings of the university, the plan embraces an arboretum in which it is proposed to gather the arboreal vegetation of California and of other regions of the world with similar climates, and an artificially planned forest of several acres which will serve as a model to planters on the Pacific coast. The arboretum will doubtless become to the university...
...comprises about 200 acres of a varied character. The soil on the hillside is mostly gravel, while in the meadows it is very rich and moist. Hay is raised on part of the farm, and given to cattle which are taken to board. The part comprised in the Arnold Arboretum is devoted to the planting of trees and shrubs which number over two thousand varieties. There is no one collection in the world which contains so many varieties. Their arrangement is also excellent. In one row we can trace the apple as it first existed in Central Asia up through...
...attractive; for the student, while still in the country, has also the benefit of lectures, courses of study, and libraries in Boston and Cambridge. If there was not a large endowment fund the institution could not exist. This year there are five instructors besides the Director of the Arnold Arboretum, and only three or four students. Such a state of things can well be accounted for by the fact that the institution is yet young, and has had little time to become known. When its advantages are fully appreciated, however, there is no doubt that it will be patronized...