Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There's always been a view that the community garden would probably be have to be relocated [if the site was chosen]," Director of the Arnold Arboretum Bob E. Cook '68 said yesterday...
...gardener, I don't see a suitable site on [the state lab's] land," Murn said. The buildings of the lab and tall trees of the Arboretum will block a great deal of sunlight; and even though the Lab will do soil preparation before the move, Murn said he believes the new site will be inferior...
Furthermore, he said, "[the Arboretum has] another site [for the visitors' center] available that they have yet to consider at all if anything, it's better...
...Cook disagrees. He said that the land in question does not have ready access to the Arboretum and "there are all sorts of environmental considerations because [that site] is a wetland. It would probably be very hard to get permits...
...Harvard administered Arboretum, which is also part of the Boston Park System, is not the only organization interested in expanding onto a neighbor's land. The state Lab is also interested in using an Arboretum building for visitor training and living space...