PUBLIC BOTANICAL GARDENS 
public. The library, commenced in 1873, now contains 31,000 bound 
volumes and 8,000 pamplets, and on its shelves are to be found all the 
principal books in all languages relating in any way to trees, their 
uses and cultivation. The herbarium, the foundation of which 
was laid by the agents of the United States Census of 1880, has grown 
and is growing steadily. It is rich in the ligneuos plants of North 
America, and of China and Japan. Those from other countries are 
fairly well represented, and it is the purpose of those who now ad- 
minister the Arboretum that this herbarium shall eventually provide 
material for the critical studies, begun in North America and con- 
tinued in Japan and China, of the trees of other countries.” Quota- 
tions from an article by Prof. C. S. Sargent, in the Garden Maga- 
zine, Nov., 1917. 
“The Arboretum is particularly interesting in September and 
October from the large quantity of handsome and interesting fruits 
which grow here in profusion and from the autumn coloring of the 
foliage. Probably there is no place in the world where such a 
variety of autumn foliage can be seen in a small area, and the au- 
tumn foliage season is prolonged here by the large number of Chi- 
nese and Japanese plants which as a general rule assume autumn 
colors three or four weeks later than the Allied American trees and 
shrubs. As a rule Europeans who know the Arboretum are more 
interested in it in the autumn than they are in the spring, for they 
are not able to see in Europe such an abundance of brilliant fruits 
or such masses of autumn foliage.” Bulletin of Garden Club. 
Members of Garden Clubs, except those living within fifty miles 
of Boston, wishing to visit the Arnold Arboretum, can obtain au- 
thority to do so by motor car by applying in writing to the Director, 
Prof. Charles S. Sargent, Jamaica Plain, Mass., stating the time of 
their proposed visit and giving the name of their club. 
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