Word: arboretum
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...arboretum's land--265 acres that are three blocks from the T's Arborway stop on the green line--is owned by the city of Boston but is leased by Harvard for the nominal fee of $1 per year. The property houses more than 7,000 kinds of trees, shrubs and other plants...
...arboretum has increasingly stressed hands-on education since it began working with Boston-area schools in 1983, when 450 school children came to the arboretum for special classes. Since then the number of children visiting annually has increased to more than...
Although the arboretum sponsors professional symposiums each year and runs mini-courses for adults, which have attracted more than 5,000 people annually during the past three years, programs for grade school students have remained its main educational focus...
Cook, who oversaw the development of a plant science curriculum for elementary school children while at Cornell Plantations, came to Harvard after directing Cornell's arboretum and botanical gardens. The curriculum he helped develop is now used in schools throughout New York State...
While Cook says that fundraising will be one of his priorities, he emphasizes that he he has no immediate plans to initiate a fund drive. The arboretum currently has an annual operating budget of $2.8 million--70 percent of which comes from its endowment--and depends for the remainder upon both public and private grants, income from education programs, membership fees and donations and revenues from the arboretum shop...