The Arnold Arboretum covers some 265 acres of rolling land south of Centre Street and west of the Arborway in the Jamaica Plain district of Boston. Within the grounds are examples of over 6,000 varieties of trees and shrubs from all over the North Temperate Zone.
Read MoreIn 1640 the colonial legislature granted to Captain Joseph Weld, for his service in the Indian Pequot War, 278 acres in what was then the town of Roxbury, now mostly Jamaica Plain. The homestead included much of today’s Arnold Arboretum.
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