Charles Sprague Sargent and the Arnold Arboretum
By: S.B. Sutton.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Distributed by Oxford University Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Cambridge (Mass.); London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Sargent, Charles Sprague.; Arnold Arboretum.
Description: The Arnold Arboretum's place among the world's great botanical gardens is in large part due to the skill and determination of its first director, Charles Sprague Sargent. In 1872, when Sargent was given the responsibility of creating an arboretum for Harvard, there were no American arboreta he could use as models. Yet the plan of development he established for the Arboretum was so sound that subsequent directors have adhered to it with few variations. This book, commissioned by the Arboretum to celebrate its hundredth anniversary, is both a biography of Sargent and a history of the institution's growth.