The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University | Arnold Arboretum
WEBA 281-acre preserve laid out by pioneering American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the Arboretum stewards one of the world’s most comprehensive and best documented collections of temperate woody plants.
Arnold Arboretum - Wikipedia
WEBThe Arnold Arboretum is a botanical research institution and free public park affiliated with Harvard University and located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in North America. [2]
Our History - Arnold Arboretum | Arnold Arboretum
WEBThe Arboretum was established in 1872 when the trustees of the will of James Arnold (1781-1868), a whaling merchant of New Bedford, Massachusetts, transferred a portion of Arnold’s estate to the President and Fellows of Harvard College.
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WEBThe seeds for many of the trees in the Arboretum’s landscape were collected on the other side of the world by Arboretum scientists. But for every tree grown from a seed collected on a remote mountainside in China, there is a tree …
Arnold Arboretum - U.S. National Park Service
WEBJul 7, 2020 · Harvard University’s historic and preeminent Arnold Arboretum, part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, is a scientific research station, a public park, and a tree museum.
Summertime at the Arnold Arboretum | Harvard Magazine
WEBWith 281 acres of thriving trees, flowers, and bushes from around the globe, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum is so much more than a walk in the park. The historic oasis was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted as part of Boston’s Emerald Necklace, and today still serves as the timeless refuge he envisioned. “Olmsted knew a thing or two about ...
Arnold Arboretum Turns 150 - Harvard Magazine
WEB“It smells like cake,” says the Arnold Arboretum’s keeper of the living collections, Michael Dosmann, standing beneath a nearly 150-year-old Japanese katsura tree. Its dark, curvy limbs are surrounded by a halo of delicate red leaves worthy of a pointillist painting.
The Arnold Arboretum - U.S. National Park Service
WEBJun 12, 2024 · A unique blend of beloved public landscape and respected research institution, the arboretum's 265 acres of rolling land include meadows, forest, and ponds. Its collection of over 15,000 trees, shrubs, and vines is one of the largest and best documented collections in world.
WEBase on the property and was named the trustee. Under the lease, Harvard, acting through the Arboretum, would conduct research, develop and curate the living collections, and maintain the buildings within the Arboretum, while the City would build and maintain the boundary walls, gates, and roadway system, provide security, and.
Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University | The Landscape …
WEBArnold Arboretum Arborway Entrance. Originally designed in collaboration by Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Sprague Sargent, the Arboretum’s current 281 acres provide a naturalistic setting for displaying plants in rolling lawns, wet meadows, forests, and ponds, as well as more structured landscapes, such as the Larz Anderson Bonsai ...