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The Penn State Horticulture Trial Gardens will eventually be relocated and integrated in the overall scheme of the landscape and botanic gardens on the Mitchell Tract in the Arboretum.
The Arboretum will be a place of beauty, an important cultural feature of the University and the community.
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Mitchell Tract Master Plan |
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The Arboretum at Penn State is a 370-acre tract fronting on Park
Avenue and stretching back to the north into Big Hollow and out
to I-99. This master planning document concerns only the Mitchell
Tract, a 58-acre parcel on Park Avenue that serves as the front
door to the Arboretum. It has always been the intent from previous
master planning to concentrate the intensive displays and educational
facilities of the Arboretum in this location and to devote the
remaining acres to managed natural plant communities, and research.
This plan studies the Mitchell Tract in detail and plans the facilities
that will create not only a vibrant educational center devoted
to plants and to man's relationship to them, but also a first-class
amenity contributing to the quality of life on the campus and
in the community and enhancing the image of the University.
The Mitchell tract as it
appeared before construction began on Phase I. The Hosler
Oak is visible slightly to the right of the center of the
image.
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