S27, 
The development of the Huron River site was begun in 1906, 
and in the Calendar for 1906-1907 Assistant Professor George 
Plummer Burns, of the Department of Botany, is listed as Di- 
rector of the Botanical Gardens. This position he held from 
1907 to 1910, being succeeded by Charles H. Otis as “ Curator’ of 
the Botanic Garden and Arboretum” (1910-1912). The De- 
partment of Botany continued the administration until 1915. The 
land was hilly and although admirably suited for permanent dis- 
play plantings of woody species and for landscape effects, it of- 
fered no sufficient flat area for a large greenhouse plant and ex- 
perimental fields, in which the Department of Botany was espe- 
cially interested. 
The University therefore purchased, in 1914, the initial twenty 
acres of the present site to the west of Packard Road on the line 
between Ann Arbor and Pittsfield townships. The botanists trans- 
ferred to the Packared Road site in 1915, leaving the land along 
the river subsequently known as the “ Nichols Arboretum” to 
be administered by the Department of Landscape Design. This 
arrangement is still (December, 1936) in effect. Dr. Henry Al- 
lan Gleason was the first Director of the Botanical Gardens on 
the Packark Road site. 
ANN ARBOR (2) 
NicHots ARBORETUM 
Established: About 1907. Area: About 90 acres. 
Director: Aubrey Tealdi (1936). Plans are under way to in- 
crease the area to 160 acres. 
BAG ME a AGRE IC 
LEILA ARBORETUM 
City Hall, Battle Creek, Michigan 
Established :1922. Area: 255 acres. 
Director: City Commissioner of Public Buildings and Grounds. 
Open free from sunrise to eae te urce of mcome: re ap- 
propriations. Plantations: System Lectures are given to 
school children at the Garden. oan ieee are loaned to the 
schools. 
