Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...pressing in America than in England, the demands have been more and more for specialists in either the business or the technical, scientific aspects of lumbering. By the present plans, joining one division of the School with the Business School and the other with the Bussey Institute and Arnold Arboretum, these demands are recognized, and the interests of forest conservation are at the same time better served...
Assistant Professor J. G. Jack will conduct a special Field Class at the Arnold Arboretum on Saturdays during the spring and early summer, to assist those who wish to gain a more intimate knowledge of the native and foreign trees and shrubs which grow in New England. The instruction will be given in informal outdoor talks, and no technical knowledge or special preparation is required...
Beginning Saturday, and continuing until June 28, the class will meet regularly at 10 o'clock in the morning in the Arboretum, at the Forest Hills entrance. Two hours will be devoted to each meeting. The course will be open to both men and women, upon the payment of a fee of $5, in advance...
...plan is to give such courses where the facilities are best. The University has really remarkable facilities for studies in the practical side of forestry management, logging and the like, at Petersham; while the facilities for studying entomology, pathology, and biology at the Bussey Institution and the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain are practically in unlimited. Next to the Kew Gardens in England the Arnold Arboretum, is the best equipped of its kind in the world, and the Bussey Institution is the best of its kind in this country...
...Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum will give an illustrated lecture on "Forests in China" before the Forestry Club in Pierce 110 this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. Wilson's life work has been devoted to enriching the tree and shrub-life of the country. He has made several expeditions to China, exploring the unknown forests of the interior in quest of new specimens, and he has succeeded in obtaining many valuable species which are likely to prove of commercial benefit to New England. Recently Mr. Wilson was presented with the Victorian Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society of Great...