Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arnold Arboretum, a vast Harvard-administered horticultural garden in Jamaica Plain off Route 1, may be partially destroyed if the city of Boston persists in its plans to build a 30 acre consolidated high school in the area, the CRIMSON learned yesterday...
...city and state governments are currently involved in a controversy over the six acre Bussey Institute land which adjoins the Arboretum. If Boston gets the Bussey land, some two dozen acres of the Arboretum would be in danger. Although Harvard administers the Arboretum, the land is owned by the City...
Harvard authorities are officially "concerned" over the danger to the Arboretum, but they stress that the title to the Arboretum property, and thus the decision on it, rests with the City. University officials added, "Many Harvard alumni would be tremendously upset by any encroachment on the Arboretum land...
...last week's Massachusetts show, compactness was the key word. Small gardens that take less money and less work were featured. Harvard's Arnold Arboretum brought in an educational exhibit of miniature evergreens and shrubs; on view were dwarf pines, holly, juniper, azaleas, rhododendrons, all of which have been trained to grow slowly and lowly. But some old favorites were holding their own nicely. Said George Taloumias. Horticultural Society spokesman: "African violets are still the No. 1 house plant, as far as I can make...
After Fingold refused to file an Information against the University, the Arboretum ease went before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts on charges that Fingold had acted on faulty legal principles in refusing to press a suit. The "friends" asked the Supreme Court to force Fingold to reconsider his decision...