"We came on purpose to see the Arnold Aroboretum," said Mrs. Henry Ford when she arrived in Boston last week. And in Philip Hale's column of the "Herald" Saturday, a correspondent remarked that it one wanted to know the significance of Pippa's. "All's right with the world," it was only necessary to go to the Aroboretum on a warm spring day. Like the Glass Flowers, the Arnold Arboretum is something that students are more familiar with by name than by experience. Outsiders make it a Mecca to be numbered with the Paul Revere House and the Museum of Fine Arts; but the student who has spent four years here without ever seeing it is only one of many; and the one who does not even know its whereabouts and wherefores, is by no means a rarity.

The Arboretum, which is the property of the University, covers a large acreage in Jamaica Plain. It is devoted to experiment with trees and flowering shrubs; a large collection has been gathered from all parts of the world, for the purpose of determining which types are adapted to growth in the New England soil and climate. As a result of these investigations, the staff of the Arboretum has been able to offer real assistance to nurserymen and private growers in the vicinity, and has succeeded in introducing several new specimens of trees and shrubs to this region of the country. It is of great value as well to advanced students of Botany.

To the external eye, the Arboretum remains simply as an attractive park full of luxuriant and unusual blossoms. The present display of lilacs, and the rhododendroms and azaleas which follow soon after, are the most famous of the exhibits. Thousands visit it each year, approaching it by automobile through the Fenway or by elevated to the Forest Hills station; this Harvard Museum of Nature is open to all throughout the day.