THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM 35 



turn offers is to leave the main drives for the grass covered paths 

 which lead to the smaller groups. With map at hand, it is an 

 easy matter to locate any general group of trees and shrubs. Yet 

 many of the foreign plants now on trial do not appear. Coming 

 down Bussey Hill, for example; at this point there is a fine collec- 

 tion of Chinese shrubs and close by the celebrated Cedars of 

 Lebanon. 



The gates of the Arboretum are open from sunrise until sunset. 

 Everybody is free to enter. You can spend an hour or a day there, 

 with profit and with pleasure. Take your luncheon and eat it on 

 the grass under the waving trees if you care to do so. Follow the 

 grassy paths; they lead to unexpected beauties. You will find 

 every tree and shrub tagged with its right name. Take a note 

 book along and jot down the names of such plants as you would like 

 in your own garden. If you want any special information, stop 

 at the Administration building near the Jamaica Plain entrance, 

 and it will be given you. 



This building was erected for the Arboretum by the late Horatio 

 Hollis Hunnewell, whose garden and pinetum at Wellesley are 

 known to all students of trees. Here are thirty-two thousand 

 bound volumes, together with many pamphlets, constituting a 

 library of incomparable value. The herbarium is believed to be 

 the richest and most complete collection of material representing 

 the coniferous plants of the world which has ever been made. It 

 contains also a collection of the woods of North America. The 

 dried specimens are stored in fireproof metal cabinets, and all are 

 so carefully indexed that any one among the hundreds of thousands 

 can be located in less than one minute. 



In one corner of the upper floor of the Administration building 

 is the office of Professor Charles S. Sargent, the first and only 

 director of the Arboretum, and the man most responsible for its 

 development. It was Professor Sargent who nursed the institution 

 through its early days of stress and trouble. Nothing but his 

 enthusiasm could have withstood the depressing public indifference 

 and the lack of expert cooperation. It was a big task to lay the 

 foundations of an institution which is to last two thousand years 

 and so on forever. His wisdom and foresight have made it what 

 it is todav. His monument has been erected while he yet lives. 



