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Volume 82, Issue 2

Summer 2025


What’s in the Issue?

From the Keeper of Living Collections

Trees for the Public Good
By Michael S. Dosmann

Notes from the Field

Nicholas Anderson plants ideas about successional horticulture and future flourishing amid the ruins of an old airfield; Benjamin Swett collects images that reveal the extraordinary ways urban trees show up in our everyday lives; Eve Farrell and her colleagues bring decades of carbon data in the Quabbin Watershed to life.

Plant Portrait

Rhododendron calendulaceum
By Michael S. Dosmann

Features

COMMON GOODS

For a Landscape as Good as the People

By David Foster, Rick Lewandowski, Rebecca Oreskes, Seana K. Walsh, Kenneth R. Wood, and Rohan Press

GREEN CITIES

The Parking-Lot Arboretum in San Luis Potosí, Mexico

By Juan Rogelio Aguirre-Rivera, Eleazar Carranza-González, and Juan Antonio Reyes-Agüero

VISUAL ESSAY

Big Little Trees

By Stephen Longmire

Propagations

TREES OF LIFE

A Maple in Memoriam
By Maureen Danahy and Claire Neid

IN REVIEW

The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey
Review By Shuchi Saraswat

POETRY

Binsey Poplars

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Season in Practice

Mapping
By Kyle Port

Cover of the summer 2025 issue of Arnoldia magazine, featuring an archival color photograph of people in the distance walking along Meadow Road in the Arnold Arboretum, with a silver maple standing at the left edge of the image and other collections trees in early green foliage.

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