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INDIANAPOLIS (1) 
HotiipAy Botanic GARDEN AND ARBORETUM 
General Superintendent, Department of Public Parks 
Note: The following information was supplied under date of 
March 22, 1937, by Mr. A. C. Sallee, Gen’l. Supt. 
“ Several years ago the late John H. Holliday, founder of the 
Indianapolis News, presented his country estate, consisting of some 
80 acres, to the City of Indianapolis to be used for a public park. 
On account of the unprecedented business depression during the 
past few years and the uncertainty of raising taxes, this tract has 
not been developed as a city park. Recently Mr. Willard N. Clut te, 
the Indiana Nature Study Club, and members of the Indianapolis 
Council of Garden Clubs, which organization has cooperated with 
the Park Board in a campaign of city beautification, have agreed 
that the Holliday estate would be the ideal site for a botanic Boe 
and arboretum 
A landscape architect has been employed to assist in the develop- 
ment of this garden. It is planned to perfect a strong citizen or- 
endowment fund, and the employment of a “ Botany Director.” 
The following information was supplied under date of May 4, 
1938, by Mr. A. C. Sallee. 
The Holliday botanic garden and arboretum is still under de- 
velopment and will not be open to the public until the latter part 
of 1939. As planned, the garden will contain a collection of rare, 
curious, and otherwise interesting plants that will survive the win- 
ter in this climate; a conservatory, various special collections of 
herbs and wildflowers, as well as sand, water, bog, and rock plants, 
a library of books on botany and gardening, a reading room, and 
an auditorium for garden meetings, lectures, etc. 
uite a few rare specimens have been eee from the 
Butler botanic gardens to Holliday this spring and a large planting 
program is being outlined for the fall of 1938. Dr. Willard N. 
Clute & Butler University has been employed in an advisory 
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INDIANAPOLIS (2) 
BoTANICAL GARDEN OF BUTLER UNIVERSITY 
Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana 
Established: 1928. Area: 15 acres. 
Director: Willard N. Clute (1928— ) 
Serves as a public park. Open free every day, all day. Source 
