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such additional rules as have been or may from time to time be agreed 

 upon between the Park Commissioners and the College. But any of the 

 said rules may be altered or annulled by agreement between the Park 

 Commissioners and the College." 



By this agreement the location of the Arboretum was practically fixed 

 for at least one thousand years, for although the College may in the 

 future wish to move it to less valuable land it is not possible to conceive 

 that the City of Boston will ever consent to abandon the benefit it derives 

 from the use of the Arboretum as a public park. By this agreement the 

 Arboretum is relieved of the danger of taxation during the period of the 

 lease and obtains without expense the protection of the Boston police. 

 In return for these benefits the public is admitted to the free enjoyment 

 of a public garden maintained with the exception of the roads by the Uni- 

 versity. By this arrangement more than two-thirds of the north meadow 

 with the land on which the Administration Building now stands and the 

 hill behind it was added to the original area of the Arboretum, which also 

 gained an entrance from Walter Street and that part of the valley of the 

 Bussey Brook between Walter Street and the western boundary of the 

 Bussey Farm. In return the Arboretum gave up to the City the land now 

 occupied by the Arborway between the old northern boundary of the 

 north meadow and the Forest Hills entrance and the wooded slope east of 



the Arborway. 



A few trees along the boundaries had been planted before 1882, but 

 the City was slow in building the roads with their adjoining gravel paths, 

 and it was not possible to begin planting trees in systematic arrangement 

 until 1885, that is at the end of thirteen years devoted to preliminary 

 negotiations and the perfection of plans. 



It was soon found that the area which in 1882 was devoted to the 

 Arboretum was inadequate for the purpose, and that if even a small 

 part of the trees and shrubs which the College had arranged with Mr. 

 Arnold's Trustees was to be found in it more land was needed for the 

 purpose. Two estates on Centre Street with an area of about eight acres 

 between the original western boundary of the Bussey Farm at this point 

 and Walter Street were bought by the City for the Arboretum and the 

 buildings were removed from them. In 1894 the President and Fellows 

 of the College transferred their property west of Bussey Street, with an 

 area of seventy-five acres and known as Peter's Hill, to the Arboretum. 



The arrangement made in 1882 with the City of Boston for the ownership 

 and control of the original Arboretum was extended to the Peter's Hill 

 addition. In 1904 a few friends of the Arboretum bought for it a house 

 and about four thousand feet of land on Centre Street between Prince 

 and Orchard Streets, Jamaica Plain, near the entrance of that name. 

 The house is used as the home for the superintendent, and the grounds 

 attached to it as a nursery. For many years the propagation of plants 

 for the Arboretum had been carried on on a small piece of ground near 



