Guided Tour - Walking Postscript: Revisiting Plants from the Bulletin of Popular Information

When:
Thursday, Jun 13, 2019 4:00p -
5:30p

Where:
Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building
125 Arborway
Boston, MA 02130

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https://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?DayPlanner=1920&DayPlannerDate=6/13/2019

Jonathan Damery, Associate Editor, Arnoldia


Location: Arnold Arboretum, Hunnewell Building

In 1911, Charles Sprague Sargent, the founding director of the Arnold Arboretum, began writing a serialized pamphlet titled the Bulletin of Popular Information, in which he described flowering and fruiting displays at the Arboretum. Because Sargent often focused on plants newly arrived from expeditions to Asia and elsewhere, many of his descriptions provided the first horticultural comparisons between species that had never been grown in the same garden. On this tour, Damery will revisit plants mentioned throughout Sargent's sixteen years with the Bulletin, comparing the young plants in Sargent's descriptions to the venerable specimens they have become. Special consideration will be paid to plant phenology, examining whether climate change has caused the plants to flower earlier than Sargent noted.

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