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Volume 82, Issue 3
Fall 2025
What’s in the Issue?
From the Editor
Interfusion
By Matthew Battles
Notes from the Field
Madeline Schill recounts what it’s like as the boots-on-the-ground archivist for a large plant expedition; Miles Schwartz Sax climbs Mount Monadnock with students from Zhejiang and Beijing Forestry Universities; Alaina Bisson present her research on root-microbial symbioses and leaf herbivory in the Arnold Arboretum collections.
Plant Portrait
Hydrangea macrophylla
By William (Ned) Friedman
Features
FIELD AND FOREST
Cultivating Biodiversity and Quality in Woodlands with Slash Walls
By Brett J. Chedzoy, Peter J. Smallidge, Paul D. Curtis, Suzanne Treyger, Kass Urban-Mead, Kristi L. Sullivan, and Andrew Hubbard
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Ruminations on Recataloging
By Lisa Pearson
ENTANGLED HISTORIES
Common Persimmon
By Kathleen McDermott
Propagations
PERSONAL HISTORY
Withness Trees
By Gretchen Ernster Henderson
POETRY
How the Oak Tree Came to Be
By Jenny L. Davis
Season in Practice
Leaf Collection
By Scott Phillips

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