Word: gardenful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possible that contributors to the Harvard Botanic Garden since July will request that their money be returned, according to information received yesterday...
...Hamblin, assistant professor in the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture, and discharged Director of the Botanic Garden said yesterday that he had been assured that some such requests will be made, and the president of one of Boston's Garden Clubs, when reached by telephone late yesterday, said that such action was being seriously considered by her group, but that as yet no definite steps had been taken...
...Garden, which is situated at the corner of Garden and Linnaean Streets, Cambridge, was established in 1807 by a number of public-spirited gentlemen who endowed a professorship of Natural History. The seven acres which form the present Garden were laid out in 1807 by Professor William Daudrige Peck, with the formal lines of smaller Loudon establishments being used as a model. After the death of Professor Peck the Garden passed under the charge of Thomas Nuttall as Curator, and later of Thaddeus William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income...
...Garden contains at present over 10,000 species of hardy herbs growing in the beds. In addition to these, the greenhouses contain many plants which require great heat, most of them tropical varieties...
...Gray Herbarium is situated in the Botanic Garden, on a corner of the property. The collection there was founded and largely developed by the late Asa Gray, and given by him to the University...