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The Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, Illinois, United States, is a public garden [1] and outdoor museum with a library, herbarium, and program in tree research including the Center for Tree Science. [2] Its grounds, covering 1,700 acres (6.9 square kilometres), include cataloged collections of trees and other living plants, gardens, and restored ...
April 16, 1969 [3] Designated NHL. May 15, 1975 [4] Arbor Lodge State Historical Park and Arboretum is a mansion and arboretum located at 2600 Arbor Avenue, Nebraska City, Nebraska, United States. [5] The park is a National Historic Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1969.
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Heritage Gardens. Midway Village Museum. Rockford. 42°16′47″N 88°59′10″W / 42.27972°N 88.98611°W / 42.27972; -88.98611. Kaskaskia College Arboretum. Kaskaskia College. Centralia. 38°33′45″N 89°11′34″W / 38.56250°N 89.19278°W / 38.56250; -89.19278. Illinois Central College Arboretum.
Morton was born on September 27, 1855, in Detroit, Michigan. [2] His mother, Caroline Joy, was an accomplished artist, musician, and gardener. His father, Julius Sterling Morton, a newspaperman and a leader in Nebraska territorial and state politics, played a key role in establishing Arbor Day, and served as the United States secretary of agriculture in the second administration (1893–1897 ...
A woodland ecosystem in the Morton Arboretum Morton Arboretum, US. Located in Lisle, Illinois, the Morton Arboretum was founded in 1922 by Joy Morton, founder of the Morton Salt Company and son of Arbor Day originator Julius Sterling Morton. At 1,700 acres (690 ha) the Arboretum is one of the largest in the world, and features several mature ...
May Petrea Theilgaard Watts (1 May 1893 – 20 August 1975) was an American naturalist, writer, poet, illustrator, and educator. She was a naturalist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, and author of Reading the Landscape of America. She is credited with proposing in 1963 what ultimately developed as a national rails-to-trails program.
Ulmus 'Morton' (selling name Accolade) is an elm cultivar cloned from a putative intraspecific hybrid planted at the Morton Arboretum in 1924, which itself originated as seed collected from a tree at the Arnold Arboretum in Massachusetts. Although this tree was originally identified as Ulmus crassifolia, it is now believed to have been a hybrid ...