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the world-wide economic depression the property was lost to the 
owners, and apparently the project, which started out with so much 
promise, has been abandoned. 
CHICAGO (2) 
(Borantc GARDEN ‘OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) 
Department of Botany, Chicago University 
An Associated Press dispatch, in 1934 announced that the Uni- 
versity of Chicago had “ set aside a tract of land for the establish- 
ment of a botanic garden at some future date.’ Official informa- 
tion received from the University Department of Botany, states 
that the University “has no botanic garden properly so-called, 
nor do we term the experimental plots a botanic garden. 
CHICAGO (3) 
PILCHER ARBORETUM 
(In Marquette Park) 
LISLE 
Morton ARBORETUM 
Lisle, Du Page County, Illinois 
Established: Fall, 1921. Administration Building in memory of 
Mr. Joy Morton, founder, completed November, 1935. Area: 
419 acres. 
Directors: 
Mrs. Joseph M. Cudahy, Chairman of Board 
C, E. Godshalk ( ?- ) 
Admission: Free, daily, ‘aoe sunrise to sunset. Source of in- 
come: Endowment ($300,000) made by the late Joy Morton, 
founder. Library: 2000 volumes. Herbarium: 10,000 specimens. 
The Arboretum (with Fruticetum) is situated on State Highway 
No. 53, in Du Page County, approximately 25 miles west of the 
Chicago Loop, 1 mile north of Lisle, and 3 miles south of Glen 
Ellyn. Arrangement: . Systematic, geographic, horticultural. 
See for landscape effect are chiefly. along the boundaries of 
the Arboretum and borders of streams, lakes and drives. In the 
forestry plantings are large groups of trees valuable for forestry 
purposes, whose economic and practical value is being tested. Pub- 
lication: Bulletin of Popular Information. 
