Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...careful inspection and analysis by staff members of the Arnold Arboretum has established the identity of the trees along Memorial Drive that are to be moved for underpasses as "a hybrid of long standing between an American and Eurasian species of Platanus...
Peter S. Green, horticultural taxonomist at the Arnold Arboretum, said that he suspected the trees to be hybrids of the native American sycamore (also known as the buttonwood) and the Mediterranean species of plane tree. If they are, he said, "London plane would be a better name for them...
Donald Wyman, horticulturist at the Arboretum, said that the scientific name of the trees was platinus acera foils, and claimed that they could justifiably be referred to as sycamores. London plane trees and sycamores are "pretty nearly identical, anyway," he observed...
Although laymen use "sycamore" and "London plane" to refer to the same plant, it is "a real botanical question just what these trees are," Lorin I. Nevling, Jr., associate curator of the Arboretum, declared. Many people in New England call trees like those on Memorial Drive plane trees, he said, simply because the trees' bark comes off in long sheets and leaves a smooth surface...
...closer to the scientific quests of Darwin than to unqualified love for small dogs and flowers. Now the U.S.'s first exhibition of Daubigny, some 82 oils, prints, and drawings, is on view at an out-of-the-way but ambitious institution, the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh...