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itial endowment to Harvard University provided that a part of the 
Bussey farm, already owned by the University, be set aside as the 
site of an arboretum, and that such an institution be established. 
This was accomplished in 1872. Ten years later arrangements 
were consummated with the City of Boston whereby the property 
was deeded to the city and then leased by the Arboretum for $1.00 
per year for a term of 999 years, with provision for renewal for 
another 999 years. Under this arrangement the Arboretum be- 
came a part of the Boston park system and the City of Boston 
became responsible for the construction and maintenance of boun- 
dary fences, drives, walks, and benches, granted certain water 
rights, and provided for police protection. 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily, from ae to sun- 
set. Source of income: Interest from enclowment ($2,964,548.84) ; 
special contributions. Library: out 43,500 bound volumes ; 
12,100 pamphlets; 17,850 photographs. a erbarium: About 500,- 
000 specimens, representing the HO plants (only) of the world; 
Carpological collection 8400; od collection 4000. Conser va- 
tories: As the arboretum includes ear woody plants, hardy in the 
climate of Jamaica Plain (near Boston), there are no plant houses 
except those necessary for propagation work and research in plant 
pathology and pocuc Bev In part systematic, in part 
for landscape effec 
1. Arboretum. ae by the authorities (in 1934) to contain 
the largest number of species of woody plants assembled in any 
one place in America. (More than 6500 species and varieties of 
trees, shrubs, and vines representing about 339 genera.) 
2. Fruticetum. The Shrub Collection “is arranged in beds ten 
feet wide, with a total length of 7765 feet, and separated by grass 
covered paths five feet wide. In these beds the shrubs are planted 
in a single row and in botanical sequence, all the species of a 
genus being thus brought together. In this collection only those 
genera are included in which all the species are shrubs, while those 
genera which contain trees and shrubs, like Cornus, Syringa, Vi- 
burnum, Rhamnus, Rhus, Evonymus, Rhododendron, etc., are 
planted in other parts of the Arboretum and as near as possible 
to the other genera of their natural families. 
“The object of this special Shrub Collection is to enable stu- 
dents, landscape-gardeners, and nurserymen to compare readily 
the different shrubs which are available for planting in the North- 
