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Vol. XXIII. ROCHESTER, N. Y., NOVEMBER, 1915. No. 11. 
THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM, 
HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 
By John Dunbar, Assistant Supt. of Parks, Rochester, N. Y. 
T HE Arnold Arboretum has achieved a splendid 
reputation throughout the world wherever hardy 
ornamental trees and shrubs are appreciated. 
As a vast aggregation of the hardy trees, shrubs, and 
vines of the North Temperate Zone, planted in a general 
rangements with the President and Fellows of Harvard 
College to establish an arboretum on its present site. 
In 1882 a contract was entered into between the City 
of Boston and Harvard College whereby the city agreed 
to add certain adjoining lands to the arboretum, to build 
Partial view of the Kalmias in bloom in 
way according to family affiliations, and yet in such a 
manner so that they show naturalistic effects, and each 
individual allowed sufficient room to develop natural 
characteristics, it has no parallel in the world. 
Through a bequest left in 1872 by the late James Ar¬ 
nold. of New Bedford for the purpose of establishing an 
arboretum, the trustees of the Arnold estate made ar- 
the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plains, Mass. 
and maintain suitable buildings, roadways, walks, re¬ 
taining walls, etc., under the direction of the Boston 
Park Commission, to police the grounds, assume all taxes 
which might be levied on the property throughout the 
nine hundred and ninety-nine years ot its leased exis¬ 
tence. On the other hand the University agreed to 
build up and maintain the collections, and use all neces- 
