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...would be unrealistic" to expect Harvard to provide even temporary beefed-up security at the 265-acre Jamaica Plain botanical gardens. Arboretum director Peter Ashton explained last week. While Ashton said the University has agreed to provide non monetary "support," Harvard is not expected to help Boston in policing what had previously been described as the city's safest park...
...Peter Ashton, director of the Arboretum, said last week he hopes to initiate a park ranger program--at a cost of $50,000--to increase security because Boston police cannot adequately patrol the wooded sections of the complex...
...Ashton would not predict what effect the recent incidents will have or Arboretum attendance. "We don't get a lot of negative calls but there is always an undercurrent of rumor...
...Ashton said he considers the Arboretum one of the safest places in the city "There are certainly more incidents in an urban area of comparable size," he said...
Describing the stabbing as the most serious incident in daylight during his three and a halt year tenure, Ashton added. "I have great confidence that [the Arboretum] is really a safe place. It has a ground crew of 12, no other city park has so many people in the maintenance staff...