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Arboretum   Listen
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Arboretum  n.  (pl. arboreta)  A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.






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"Arboretum" Quotes from Famous Books



... Prof. Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Brookline, Massachusetts, quoted in the Kew Report for 1882, p. 35, he says: "I have been now, for a long time, examining our native woods in the hope of finding something to take the place of boxwood for engraving, but so far I am sorry to say with no very brilliant success. The best work ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 497, July 11, 1885 • Various

... and perhaps you and she will be better friends from now on because she'll know you want to please her. And now, I came over to tell you that the U.S.C. is going into New York to-day to see something of the Botanical Garden and the Arboretum. I'm going with them and they'd be glad to have ...
— Ethel Morton's Enterprise • Mabell S.C. Smith



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