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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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