Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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David Sturrock, of Lanark, Scotland, former director of the Hershey Agricultural School, Cuba, has been appointed Superintendent of the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University at Soledad, Cuba. He will succeed Robert M. Grey, Superintendent since 1925, who has resigned after thirty years of service at the Institution...
Alfred Rehder, Curator of the Herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Loder Rhododendron Cup for 1936 by the Royal Horticultural Society of London. This cup has been awarded annually since 1921, but only three times has it gone outside of England...
Professor Rehder has been with the Arboretum for 35 years, and has spent much time abroad collecting new and interesting specimens for the Harvard collection...
...Since 1933, the losses from winter damage have been greater than ever before in the history of the Arboretum," Professor Ames reported. "And many plants once regarded as perfectly hardy in the climate of Boston are now known to be unable to withstand an exceptionally cold winter...
Another cold weather problem, the explanation of why it is that plants growing under apparently similar conditions and close together respond differently to the effects of a severely cold winter, has been solved at the Arboretum, Professor Ames said. Temperatures were recorded from autumn until spring at selected points in the Arboretum and it was found that variations of as much as twelve degrees Fahenheit occurred in adjacent at the same hour, showing clearly why plants growing in these various spots were differently affected by the weather...