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Scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London, are working to conserve trees across the world by collecting seeds and growing specimens in arboretums.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2024

He found that plants at arboretums and public gardens inadvertently can seed wild areas with nonnative plants.

From Science Daily • Dec. 1, 2023

Even during the grayest of winter months, there is plenty of green, and pops of color and beauty around the region in arboretums and botanical gardens.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2022

Considered “extinct in the wild,” the Franklinia tree — along with six other plants listed in the recent study — now exists only in cultivated spaces such as arboretums or botanical gardens.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2020

Parks, belts, arboretums, and clipped hedge-rows, however useful as contributing to pleasure, convenience, or science, are not the most interesting features of wood-scenery.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various