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The 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 ]
The Larz Anderson Bonsai Collection at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts is one of the premier collections of bonsai in the United States and includes a Hinoki Cypress over 250 years old. [1] The Bonsai Pavilion where the trees are housed are part of the complex of buildings known as the Dana Greenhouses.
In 1872, when the trustees of the will of James Arnold transferred his estate to Harvard University, Arnold's gift was combined with 120 acres (0.5 km 2) of the former Bussey estate to create the Arnold Arboretum. [5] [10] [7] The arboretum's Bussey Hill and Bussey Brook (formerly Sawmill Brook), and the adjacent Bussey Street still bear his name.
The total number of botanical gardens recorded in the United States depends on the criteria used, and is in the range from 296 [6] to 1014. [3] The approximate number of living plant accessions recorded in these botanical gardens — 600,000. [6] The approximate number of taxa in these collections — 90,000 taxa or approximately 40,000 species ...
Rhododendron garden. Stone wall with gate. The Case Estates is a botanical garden located at 135 Wellesley Street, Weston, Massachusetts.Measuring 65 acres (260,000 m 2), the estates were at one time the active plant nurseries of the Arnold Arboretum.
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The James Pass Arboretum was established by the City of Syracuse, New York through the philanthropy of Adelaide Salisbury Pass and family with the guidance and cooperation of the State College of Forestry (now SUNY-ESF) to be a classic arboretum in the tradition of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, that is, a museum of woody plants designed for education and horticultural display.
Sargent's Pond is a man-made 3-acre (1.2 ha) pond on Sargent Road in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.The pond was created by Charles Sprague Sargent (best known as the first director of the Arnold Arboretum) in the late 1870s as a centerpiece of his family's extensive Holm Lea estate.