| Summary: | Connecticut Trees Go Back To Dim Era Arboretum at the College Is Growing Varieties Lost Since the Pre-Glacial Period. CONNECTICUT TREES GO BACK TO DIM ERA Arboretum at the College Is Growing Varieties Lost Since the Pre-Glacial Period. NEW LONDON, Conn., Nov. 21.—Trees which were native to the region of Connecticut in the ^re- glacial period but have been unknown there since that time are being successfully grown in the Connecticut Arboretum at Connecticut College, where it is hoped that ultimately every tree and shrub ever native to the State will be represented. The bald cypress, the red bud, the gingko and the American holly are thriving in the nurseries and will later take their place in that part of the arboretum which furnishes their natural habitat and where their scientific relationships to other specimens:of Connecticut's plant life may be conveniently studied. So far efforts to grow the sequoia and the magnolias, which lived in this region before the coming of the ice sheet, have failed. Dr. George S. Avery, Professor of Botany at the college and director of the arboretum, says, however, that he can see no reason why the sequoia should not be successfully grown eventually, since a few sequoias are reported growing in New York State and in parts of Connecticut. The arboretum, a sixty-acre tract within the college property, includes in its area nearly every kind of topography characteristic of Connecticut. Within its confines are a small lake, swampy places, dry hillsides and rocky ledges, sufficient to furnish the different habitats for a complete representation of Connecticut's plant life. Although the development of the arboretum is primarily for scientific purposes and for the preservation and propagation of the plant life indigenous to Connecticut, it is not restricted to the purposes of the students of botany by any means. Its beauties have been made accessible to the nature lover by means of trails and bridle paths which have been blazed throughout the woods. There are a few spots for picnic places and a beautiful outdoor theatre within its borders.
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