Collection Profile: Magnolia Collection at The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College

摘要

The Scott Arboretum is a garden of ideas and suggestions. While the Arboretum encompasses more than 300 acres of the Swarthmore College campus, our major collections, consisting of over 2,000 living woody taxa, are concentrated on 110 acres at the heart of the college campus. The Arboretum is a living memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott (Swarthmore class of 1895), President of the Scott Paper Company and an avid gardener who believed there were too few public gardens for the amateur horticulturist. Through a bequest from Arthur Hoyt Scott's family, the Arboretum was formed in 1929 to display some of the best trees, shrubs, vines, and perennials for use in the Delaware Valley.