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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.
The Baird Auditorium is a multi-purpose 530-seat venue located on the ground floor of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.. History [ edit ]
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 ...
The National Capitol Columns are a monument in Washington, D.C.'s National Arboretum. It is an arrangement of twenty-two Corinthian columns that were a part of the United States Capitol from 1828 to 1958, placed amid 20 acres (8.1 ha) of open meadow, known as the Ellipse Meadow.
The Arboretum was established in 1910 by Dr. Walter Bartlett, a general practitioner from Belle Plaine, who purchased pastureland to create his own arboretum. In the 1930s the arboretum became an approved test site for the United States Department of Agriculture which provided plants and trees from around the world for hardiness tests.
The United Brick Corporation Brick Complex, also known as the New York Avenue Brickworks, is a historic industrial site. It is located on the 2800 block of New York Avenue, NE in Washington, D.C. on the grounds of the United States National Arboretum. The site sits on federal land, and access by the public is restricted.
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
National Arboretum may refer to National Arboretum Canberra in Australia; National Memorial Arboretum at Alrewas, UK; Westonbirt Arboretum, formal name "Westonbirt, The National Arboretum", near Tetbury, Gloucestershire, UK; United States National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. Type of an environment protected area with a national status in Ukraine