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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 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.
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
Canberra National Arboretum (foreground) with Telstra Tower in the distance. The National Arboretum Canberra is a 250-hectare (620-acre) arboretum in Canberra, the national capital of Australia, created after the area was burned out as a result of the Christmas 2001 [1] and 2003 Canberra bushfires: [2] The Himalayan Cedar forest lost about one third of its trees, and the commercial Radiata ...
The North Carolina Arboretum (434 acres (176 ha)) is an arboretum and botanical garden located within the Bent Creek Experimental Forest of the Pisgah National Forest at 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, southwest of Asheville, North Carolina near the Blue Ridge Parkway. [1] It is open daily except for Christmas Day.
English: Plat of grounds for the University of Michigan's botanical gardens, now known as the Nichols Arboretum, dated 1906. This map, drawn by O. C. Simonds & Company, includes handwritten notes, perhaps added at a later date.
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The Old Arboretum is a carefully designed landscape offering beautiful vistas, stately avenues, and a host of rare and exotic trees from across the globe dating back to the 1850s. Silk Wood is a very different experience: although it also contains many exotic plantings, at its heart is a traditional working woodland, dating back to the 13th ...