Word: arboretum
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Acres under Glass. William Penn granted the tract (in 1702) to one George Peirce, whose descendants imported bricks from England to build a small manor, later sheltered runaway slaves. In 1906, when Du Pont bought the 950-acre estate, "Peirce's Park" was already a pretty arboretum. Du Pont money transformed it into an American Versailles. Du Pont spent $500,000 for fountains, built $2 million worth of greenhouses to put three acres under glass. Admiring the water gardens of Italy's Villa Gamberaia near Florence, he copied them at Longwood-adding lakes and canals...
Opponents of University's plan to consolidate is botanical facilities by moving parts of the Arnold Arboretum to Cambridge will continue their battle. Last week they met defeat in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Technical grounds...
...petitioners, supported by the Association for the Arnold arboretum, had brought suit against the state Attorney-General, contesting his decision not to prosecute the University for alleged breach of public trust. Chief Justice Stanley E. Qua of the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the Court has no legal right to review the decisions of the State's Attorney-General...
...Association's legal recourses seem to be exhausted. Under Massachusetts law there are only two alternatives for an inquiry into the actions of the University as trustee of the Arnold Arboretum. Either the Attorney-General can bring suit against Harvard for breach of public trust in removing Arboretum materials, or the University can apply to the courts for instructions concerning the legality of its actions...
...Association, which includes Grenville Clark '03, Henry F. duPont '03, and John S. Ames '01, felt such a shift to be detrimental to the Arboretum. Before the actual transfers, it therefore sought approval from Fingold to stop the University's action. Figold, as Attorney-General, is the legal enforcer of public, as opposed to private, trusts...