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Arboretum of the Barnes Foundation

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has managed the arboretum and its educational programs under a lease agreement with the foundation. Now known as the Barnes Arboretum at Saint Joseph's University, the arboretum is open to visitors Monday through Friday when the university is open, but for walk-in visitors only. From May through the
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end of October, the arboretum is open Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with free parking in their lot. Admission is free and no tickets or reservations required.
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housing 10,000 specimens, and a library of some 2,500 volumes. The arboretum school was established in 1940.
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It also contains a formal rose and perennial garden, woodland, lawns, pond, stream, and a
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arboretum
Barnes Foundation
Merion, Pennsylvania
Saint Joseph's University
Joseph Lapsley Wilson
herbarium
Aesculus
Cotoneaster
Cornus
crab apples
ferns
lilac
Lonicera
Magnolia
peony
Quercus
Phellodendron
Rhododendron
Stewartia
Viburnum
Ginkgo biloba
Calocedrus decurrens
Cunninghamia lanceolata
Sequoia sempervirens
Trochodendron aralioides
Araucaria araucana
Davidia involucrata
Parrotia persica
greenhouse

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