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Pittsburgh 40°24′46.44″N 80°10′19.92″W / 40.4129000°N 80.1722000°W / 40.4129000; -80.1722000 Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum
The Pittsburgh Botanic Garden is a botanical garden spanning the Pittsburgh suburbs of Collier Township and North Fayette Township, United States. [2] Covering a total of 460 acres , it is one of the largest American botanical gardens by area. [ 3 ]
Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden set in Schenley Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a City of Pittsburgh historic landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [4] The gardens were founded in 1893 by steel and real-estate magnate Henry Phipps Jr. as
United States National Arboretum Herbarium United States National Arboretum: 800,000 NA District of Columbia: Washington: University of North Carolina Herbarium University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. North Carolina Botanical Garden. 750,000 NCU North Carolina: Chapel Hill: Oregon State University Herbarium Oregon State University: 700,000 OSC
The United States National Arboretum is an arboretum in northeast Washington, D.C., operated by the United States Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service. It was established in 1927 by an act of Congress [ 1 ] after a campaign by USDA Chief Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville .
Pittsburgh Rose Society listing about Renziehausen Park Rose Garden and Arboretum McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center - local history museum in the park 40°20′24″N 79°49′27″W / 40.3401°N 79.8241°W / 40.3401; -79
The oldest surviving botanical garden in the United States is Bartram's Garden in Pennsylvania. [1] [2] This list is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the United States. [3] [4] [5] The total number of botanical gardens recorded in the United States depends on the criteria used, and is in the range from 296 ...
In 1944, descendant Laura Tyler bequeathed the property, in memorial to her husband John J. Tyler, to be a nonprofit arboretum. [3] [4] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] Today, Tyler Arboretum attracts 70,000 visitors a year to its 650-acre campus and boasts 17 miles of pathways and hiking trails.