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H. H. Hunnewell

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Horatio Hollis Hunnewell (July 27, 1810 – May 20, 1902), was a railroad financier, philanthropist, amateur botanist, and one of the most prominent horticulturists in America in the nineteenth century. [1]

31 relations: Arboretum, Arnold Arboretum, Arthur D. Gilman, Asa Gray, Boston, Botany, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Conservatory (greenhouse), Greenhouse, Gridley J. F. Bryant, H. H. Hunnewell estate, Henry Fowle Durant, Horatio Alger, Hunnewell Estates Historic District, Hunnewell, Kansas, Hunnewell, Missouri, Illinois Central Railroad, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Nathaniel Thayer Jr., Natick, Massachusetts, National Register of Historic Places, Real tennis, Rhododendron, Rhododendron hunnewellianum, Tennis and Racquet Club, The Boston Globe, Topiary, Wellesley College, Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Wellesley Town Hall, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Arboretum

An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees.

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Arnold Arboretum

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is an arboretum located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale sections of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Arthur D. Gilman

Arthur Delevan Gilman (November 5, 1821, Newburyport, Massachusetts – July 11, 1882, Syracuse, New York) was an American architect, designer of many Boston neighborhoods, and member of the American Institute of Architects.

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Asa Gray

Asa Gray (November 18, 1810 – January 30, 1888) is considered the most important American botanist of the 19th century.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Botany

Botany, also called plant science(s), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Conservatory (greenhouse)

A conservatory is a building or room having glass or tarpaulin roofing and walls used as a greenhouse or a sunroom.

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Greenhouse

A greenhouse (also called a glasshouse) is a structure with walls and roof made mainly of transparent material, such as glass, in which plants requiring regulated climatic conditions are grown.

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Gridley J. F. Bryant

Gridley James Fox Bryant (August 29, 1816 – June 8, 1899),Roger G. Reed, (Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2007), 9781558495555 often referred to as G.J.F. Bryant, was a Boston architect, builder, and industrial engineer.

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H. H. Hunnewell estate

The H. H. Hunnewell estate in Wellesley, Massachusetts was the country home of H. H. Hunnewell (1810–1902), containing over 500 species of woody plants in 53 families.

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Henry Fowle Durant

Henry Fowle Durant (originally Henry Welles Smith) (February 22, 1822 – October 3, 1881) was an American lawyer and philanthropist.

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Horatio Alger

Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an American writer, best known for his many young adult novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty.

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Hunnewell Estates Historic District

The Hunnewell Estates Historic District is an historic district between the Charles River and Lake Waban in Wellesley and Natick, Massachusetts, about 17 miles west of Boston.

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Hunnewell, Kansas

Hunnewell is a city in Sumner County, Kansas, United States.

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Hunnewell, Missouri

Hunnewell is a city in Shelby County, Missouri, United States.

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Illinois Central Railroad

The Illinois Central Railroad, sometimes called the Main Line of Mid-America, was a railroad in the central United States, with its primary routes connecting Chicago, Illinois, with New Orleans, Louisiana, and Mobile, Alabama.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, west of Boston.

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Nathaniel Thayer Jr.

Nathaniel Thayer (11 September 1808 in Lancaster, Massachusetts – 7 March 1883 in Boston) was a United States financier, philanthropist, and the father of John Eliot Thayer, an amateur ornithologist.

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Natick, Massachusetts

Natick is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance.

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Real tennis

Real tennis – one of several games sometimes called "the sport of kings" – is the original racquet sport from which the modern game of tennis (originally called "lawn tennis") is derived.

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Rhododendron

Rhododendron (from Ancient Greek ῥόδον rhódon "rose" and δένδρον déndron "tree") is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.

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Rhododendron hunnewellianum

Rhododendron hunnewellianum (岷江杜鹃), named in honor of H. H. Hunnewell and Walter Hunnewell, is a rhododendron species native to southern Gansu and central and northern Sichuan in China, where it grows at altitudes of 1200–2400 meters.

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Tennis and Racquet Club

The Tennis and Racquet Club is a private social club and athletic club located at 939 Boylston Street, in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe (sometimes abbreviated as The Globe) is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts, since its creation by Charles H. Taylor in 1872.

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Topiary

Topiary is the horticultural practice of training perennial plants by clipping the foliage and twigs of trees, shrubs and subshrubs to develop and maintain clearly defined shapes, whether geometric or fanciful.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college located west of Boston in the town of Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Wellesley College Botanic Gardens

The Wellesley College Botanic Gardens (22 acres) are botanical gardens located on the campus of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Wellesley Town Hall

Wellesley Town Hall is located at 525 Washington Street in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

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Wellesley, Massachusetts

Wellesley is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Hunnewell

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