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Indiana 
HUNTINGTON 
LOEW BoTANICAL GARDEN AND ARBORETUM 
Huntington College, Huntington 
Dedicated: June 12, 1937. Area: Garden, 3.5 acres; Arboretum, 
40 acres. 
Director: Fred A. Loew (1937). 
Open free daily. Plantations: Largely systematic, with more 
than 300 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 ante project of its kind in the state, is the work 
of Fred A. Loew, now professor of botany, and has been named 
after him.” (Science 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. 
INDIANAPOLIS (1) 
BoTaANiIc 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 
0 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. Clute, 
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 money estate would be the ideal site for a botanic garden 
and arboret 
A ieee architect has been employed to assist in the develop- 
ment of this garden. It is planned to perfect a strong citizen or- 
ganization to cooperate with the Park Board and provide con- 
