Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gardeners in Jamaica Plain are protesting the proposed construction of a new education center for Harvard's Arnold Arboretum which could displace the nine-year-old South Street Community Garden...
...acre garden is part of a parcel of land next to the Arboretum owned by the State Laboratory for Disease Control. It contains more than 3,000 plots cultivated by local residents and lab employees, according to garden coordinators...
...land is considered a prime location for the Arboretum's new education center--part of a five-year improvement plan for the plant research center--because it is across the street from the Orange Line Forest Hills T station...
...Arboretum does decide to build on the plot, it would either lease the land or purchase it outright from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the garden would have to be moved...
...Tredici notes, however, that most of the people who come to the Arboretum ignore the anti-climbing warnings...