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...Arboretum is a popular destination for both tourists and Boston locals. Reggie W. Price described the landscape as "romantic, beautiful and exotic...
Unlike city recreational parks, the Arboretum is quite and peaceful, with ample sitting areas and quite refuges. While winter will bring the beauty of snow-graced tree branches, autumn offers comfortable weather and colorful trees and plants...
Tourists Paul W. and Alice E. Wood visited the Arboretum last weekend...
Within the past 20 years, Arboretum staff has joined in expeditions to the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, North Africa and regions of North America in search of plants for the Arboretum's collections. However, the staff concentrates mostly on collecting plants from the Boston region. Many of the accessions are the original plant introductions into North America from eastern Asia. All plants and trees are labeled...
...Arboretum also manages the University's Herbaria at 22 Divinity Ave. with about 1,268,000 specimens and a botanical library of 95,000 volumes and archival and photographic collections, which are research facilities not open to the public...