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LISLE 
Morton ARBORETUM 
Lisle, Du Page County 
Established: Development begun, Fall, 1921; Founded, December 
14, 1922. Administration Building in memory of Mr. Joy 
Morton, founder, completed November, 1935. Area: 735 acres. 
Director (Superintendent): C. E. Godshalk (1921- Ni 
Admission: Free, daily, from sunrise to sunset. Source of in- 
rton, 
founder. Library: 2000 volumes. Herbarium: 10,000 specimens. 
The Arboretum (with Fruticetum) is situated on State Highway 
in Du Page County, approximately 25 miles west of the 
Chicag ‘ Loop, 1 mile north of Lisle, and 3 miles south of Glen 
Ellyn Plantations: Systematic, geographic, horticultural. ae 
for landscape effect are chiefly along the boundaries of the O- 
retum and borders of streams, lalkes, and drives. In the forestry 
plantings are large groups of trees valuable for forestry purpose 
whose economic and practical value is being tested. Puphcanen: 
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HUNTINGTON 
Lortw BoTaANic GARDEN AND ARBORETUM 
Huntington College 
Founded: Fall of 1935. Dedicated: June 12, 1937. Area: Gar- 
den, 3.5 acres; Arboretum, 40 acres. 
Director: Fred Aron Loew (1937- ye 
Open free daily. Plantations: Largely systematic, with more 
than 450 species. It is planned to devote one section entirely to 
native grasses. Arboretum now well wooded with many of the 
trees and shrubs native to the region. “ Others will be planted 
until it is complete. . . . The development of this garden and arbo- 
retum which is the only project of its kind in the state, is the work 
of Fred A. Loew, now professor of botany, and has been named 
after him.” (Sctence 86: 99. 30 July, 1937.) The dedication 
address was given by Dr. Ernst A. Bessey, professor of botany, 
Michigan State College, and from 1911 to 1914 director of the 
Beal Botanic Garden, East Lansing. 
