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Page 2 - By his will signed on the 22d of May, 1868, James Arnold, a merchant of New Bedford, Massachusetts, gave one and one-quarter of the twentyfour parts into which he divided his residuary estate "To George B. Emerson, John James Dixwell and Francis E. Parker Esqrs. of Boston in trust: to be by them applied for the promotion of Agricultural, or Horticultural improvements, or other Philosophical, or Philanthropic purposes at their discretion, and to provide for the continuance of this Trust hereafter...
Page 3 - Harvard College; and certainly not one of them was more ignorant of the subject than the man selected to carry out the provisions of this agreement. He found himself with a worn-out farm, partly covered with natural plantations of native trees nearly ruined by excessive pasturage, to be developed into a scientific garden with less than three thousand dollars a year available for the purpose. He was without equipment or the support and encouragement of the general public which then knew nothing about...
Page 7 - ... several individuals of important North American species have been planted close together in groups, and at a distance from the group an individual of the species is planted with sufficient space about it to insure a full development of branches. A representative of almost every genus stands near a drive so that visitors passing along the Arboretum roads and gravel paths can obtain an idea of the genera of trees hardy in Massachusetts and of their relation to each other. An attempt has been made...
Page 114 - ... freely given. The Arnold Arboretum is not a School of Forestry or of Landscape Gardening. It is a station for the study of trees as individuals in their scientific relations, economic properties and cultural requirements and possibilities. On the information gathered in museums like the Arnold Arboretum successful silviculture and landscape gardening are dependent, for silviculture is the cultivation on a large scale of the trees most valuable in a particular locality, and landscape gardening...
Page 7 - ... ARRANGEMENT OF THE LIVING PLANTS The trees which have been planted are arranged in botanical sequence in family groups, the genera of each family and the species of each genus being placed together, the arrangement beginning with the Magnolia Family at the Jamaica Plain Gate and ending with the Pinaceae at the Walter Street Gate. That they may show their habit under different conditions several individuals of important North American species have been planted close together in groups, and at...
Page 7 - ... the labels are lost. To a branch of every important plant in the Arboretum is attached a small metal label on which the name, origin and card catalogue number of the plant is stamped with raised letters. These labels are to preserve records and not for public use. For the instruction of visitors zinc labels six inches long and four inches wide painted brown with their Latin and English names and their native country in black letters are fastened with copper nails to the trunks of large trees...
Page 114 - ... are received by Professor JG Jack who for many years now has given field lessons during the spring and autumn months among the collections of trees. In the answers to the letters which come to the Arboretum, as to all museums, asking for information, help and instruction are freely given. The Arnold Arboretum is not a School of Forestry or of Landscape Gardening. It is a station for the study of trees as individuals in their scientific relations, economic properties and cultural requirements...
Page 8 - ... require deep soil and good drainage to enable them to grow to a large size and live to old age. The regions represented by the living collections are the cool temperate and colder parts of North America, Europe and Asia, including the higher altitudes of the Himalayas and other more southern mountains. No plants from the southern hemisphere, not even from the high Andes, southern Chile or the higher mountains of New Zealand have proved hardy in ths Arboretum.
Page 117 - ... genera in which trees and shrubs are described, is a large one. The collections of books and papers descriptive and cultural of various groups of plants like Conifers, Rosa, Rhododendron, Crataegus, Quercus, Salix, etc., are as nearly complete as it has been possible to make them. A complete collection of the works of Linnaeus is found in the Library; and it is believed that outside the walls of the British Museum there is not a more complete collection of the books relating to plants published...
Page 115 - ... (1911-22); the first three volumes of the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum (1919-22) ; and an illustrated Guide to the Arnold Arboretum (1911) with a second edition in 1921. The following are some of the works which have been prepared by the Director in this library but were not published by the Arboretum : Report on the Forests of North America, being the ninth volume of the Final Reports of the Tenth Census of the United States (1884...