An Arboretum Decked Out in All Its Fernery
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › March 01, 2004
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At its source, Philadelphia's Fairmount Park takes in an area well known to Philly lovers, including the Museum of Art and historic boathouse row along the Schuylkill River.
At the other end of this verdant rainbow is another pot of gold: the Morris Arboretum. Established as a private estate in the 1880s, the 92-acre horticultural haven endured a few decades of neglect to come back in recent years as an even richer living museum of shrubs, shade trees, and conifers from North America and east Asia.See the full content of this document
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An Arboretum Decked Out in All Its Fernery
Its original owners, industrialist John Morris and his sister, Lydia, called it Compton and turned a once rolling but bare pasture into a private park of picturesque woodland, formal garden terraces, and various handsome pavilions, bridges, and other structures clad in the brilliant mica-flecked local stone.
Today, anyone with $8 in his pocket can enjoy the place, which is now run by the Uni...See the full content of this document
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