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VIEW FROM OVERLOOK HILL.- BLUE HILL RANGE IN THE DISTANCE. 
tilting the Arboretum as a botanical institute. Almost 
every tree and shrub which can be cultivated in the 
open air in this locality has been planted in botanical 
sequence according to their natural affinities as indi- 
cated in the Bentham & Hooker arrangement. Ex- 
cepting the shrubs, the entire botanical planting may 
be viewed from the paths and drives. Especially rich 
is the Arboretum in Japanese and Chinese plants se- 
cured as a result of Prof. Sargent’s exploration of 
Japan’s arborescent flora in 1893. 
The local scenery, composed of native vegetation, is 
rich and varied and comprises some of the typical 
New England woodland compositions. Goldenrod 
meadow, with its fringe of willows, is a striking feat- 
ure in the autumn ; Hemlock Hill is a steep declivity 
of rock covered with a primeval forest of hemlocks ; 
the oak wood, with its carpeting of undergrowth, 
shrubs, cedars, barberries and other compositions, is 
well cared for and developed. 
But the primary object of this institution is not 
that of creating scenery but to enable and promote 
scientific study of the arborescent flora of the universe. 
The library is large and contains many rare works. 
It is supposed to be the largest and best of its kind 
in America. Supplementing the living plants are the 
dried specimens in the herbarium and the sections of 
wood in the museum. 
For its scenery the Arboretum has a reputation 
which is principally local ; as a scientific institution 
its fame is international. Without doubt this broader 
fame is directly attributable to the director who holds 
unquestioned the position of highest authority on the 
trees of North America. Among his principal works 
are: — the portion of the tenth census relating to the 
trees of the United States; the Sylva of North Amer- 
ica, and Forest flora of Japan. 
In the Sylva are recorded the results of the most 
exhaustive and accurate research concerning the 
trees of the North American continent north of Mex- 
ico ever made by a student of trees. His endeavors 
toward the establishing of national forest reserves 
have had a gratifying result indicated by the govern- 
ment proclaiming large tracts, at the headwaters of the 
middle-north and northwestern rivers as permanent 
forest reservations. 
In the administrative corps are a staff of assistants 
noted in their special spheres. Mr. C. E. Faxon, 
keeper of the herbarium, is well known as the de- 
lineator of the botanical drawings in the North Amer- 
ican Sylva; Mr. J. G. Jack as a lecturer on arboricul- 
ture ; Mr. Alfred Rehder as contributor of the ac- 
count of hardy trees and shrubs to the Cyclopaedia of 
American Horiculture, and Mr. Jackson Dawson as 
a rose hybridist and an expert propagator. 
Emil T. Mische. 
[To be continued.) 
BRANCH OF MEADOW BROOK. — ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 
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