Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lengthy, bitter, and complex Arnold Arboretum case entered its final phase yesterday as arguments were heard in the Commonwealth's Supreme Judicial Court...
...with the 20th century, has a complete line of modern ceramic ware. But the firm still continues to make many of the wares that Josiah Wedgwood originally designed. Not a whit of the craftsmanship that makes Wedgwood endure has changed. A current exhibition at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh. Wis., brings together nearly 700 pieces of early Wedgwood, showing that the most fragile art has the most abiding colors (see opposite page...
...arboretum is a collection of trees and shrubs grown for educational purposes, an herbarium is a collection of dried plants...
...Arboretum vs. Herbarium...
...arboretum was one of four Massachusetts sites honored as National Landmarks. Another was the Asa Gray House, built in 1807 on Garden St. in Cambridge to house Harvard's famous botany professor. It was to Gray, a friend and supporter of Charles Darwin, that Darwin's theory of evolution was first outlined...