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READING 
BoTANICAL GARDEN OF THE READING PusLic MusEUM AND 
ART GALLERY 
Established: 1926. Area: 29 acres, on Wyomissing River. 
Director: Levi Walter Mengel (1926— 
Sobrie of income: tiaeet of Reading School District. eee 
500 volumes. Herbarium: About 6000 specimens, chiefly plants 
of Eastern United States. Plantations: Systematic, geographic, 
economic, “ Bird paradise,” with feeding Hea Greenhouse of 
economic plants for school classes. Museum: Free daily, 10 a 
5 p.m.; Sundays, 2-5 p.m. Special cee “ school children. 
SELINGSGROVE 
Botanic GARDEN OF SUSQUEHANNA UNIVERSITY 
Announcement was made by letter of Feb. 11, 1921, that a 
Botanic Garden was about to be established at Susquehanna 
University. No reply to our questionnaire of 1938 
SWARTHMORE 
ARTHUR Hoyt Scotr HorticuLtrurAL FOUNDATION 
Swarthmore College 
Established: 1929. Area: 250 acres. 
Director: John Caspar Wister (1930- ye 
Serves as a public park. Open free at all times. Source of 
imcome: Endowment, Arthur Hoyt Scott Horticultural Founda- 
tion. Library: The botanical and horticultural books in the Col- 
lege Library. Herbarium: That of the Botanical Department of 
the College. Fruticetum, but shrubs not segregated. Plantations: 
Systematic and geographic. Publications: A preliminary report 
and occasional small pamphlets about flowering plants. ation: 
en is affiliated with Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, 
Pa. The chief emphasis of the Scott Foundation is upon collec- 
tions of living plants suitable a se nee culture by the average 
gardener in the climate of this ar 
TYLER ARBORETUM (PAINTERS’ ARBORETUM) 
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