Word: arboretum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...yesterday, two weeks after its 121st birthday, the tree had become an Arboretum legend...
...Arboretum pruners had also been removing dead branches from the tree over the past 10 years, increasing its frailty, he said...
Just two years after the Arboretum was founded in 1872, this amurense arrived in Boston as a seed from the Imperial Botanic Garden in St. Petersburg, Russia...
Dubbed 143-A in its new home, indicating that it was the 143rd tree to join the arboretum, the cork tree was probably one of the very first trees planted on the grounds of the park...
Even cut down it may continue in this role, as part of Harvard's annual capital campaign. A potential plan is to create discs from the saved wood of the removed portions of the tree, which might be presented to financial donors to the Arboretum as an expression of gratitude, Del Tredici said...