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About Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens

The Bartlett Arboretum and Gardens in Stamford, Connecticut contains 93 sections of land of parkland, gardens, scenes, and climbing trails, that emphasis on the provincial plants, nature and character of Southwestern New England. The Arboretum is open and available to the general population each day of the year and is situated at 151 Brookdale Road. The herbarium of the Bartlett Arboretum is an accumulation of more than 3500 examples.
While most examples are from the Northeastern United States, the accumulation likewise houses material from the Southeastern United States and Adjacent Mexico, the Caribbean, Amazonian Peru, the previous Soviet Union, and Africa. This gathering incorporates roughly 2,500 types of vascular plants, and 1,000 types of Bryophyte. The accumulation as of now houses one write example. The Arboretum began in 1913, when Dr. Francis A. Bartlett, a prominent dendrologist and organizer of the F.A. Bartlett Tree Expert Company, procured "30 sections of land pretty much" of North Stamford forest to use as his living arrangement, preparing school and research lab for his organization.
Throughout the years, he gathered countless examples on the property from everywhere throughout the world. In 1965, when the examination lab moved to North Carolina, the Stamford site, at that point covering in excess of 60 sections of land, was acquired by the State of Connecticut and assigned the Connecticut State Arboretum. In 1993, the land and generally speaking activity of the Arboretum were exchanged to the University of Connecticut at Stamford.
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