The One-hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Charles Sprague Sargent
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ciation with the institution, he was interested in botany and in horticulture, his first appointment at Harvard University bemg as Director of the Botanic Garden in Cambrtdge. On assuming the directorship of the Arnold Arboretum in 1873, he already appreciated the tremendous value of collections of living plants as a means of promoting public interest in horticulture. His desire for study and for research, combined with his deep love of plants and a thorough appreciation of landscape design, eminently fitted him for the adoption of an unusually farsighted policy in reference to the development of the Arnold Arboretum; and the policies that he developed and maintained throughout his productive life insured the future of the institution and its present pre-eminent position. The Arnold Arboretum is the oldest institution of its kind in America, remarkable among its other accomplishments for the extraordinartly large number of species that it has introduced into cultiva-
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