Stanford University Arboretum

It is situated on the grounds of Stanford University in Stanford, California CA United States Of America. It is available to people in general day by day without charge.The arboretum started with the indigenous live oaks on Leland Stanford's home, which later turned into the college grounds, increased by an assortment of trees that he gathered. In 1885 Stanford contracted with noted scene planner Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds. A 1888 reminder by Olmsted, and marked by Stanford, expresses that the then-surviving University Forest and the Arboretum were to be consolidated, and that "In this augmented Arboretum it is wanted that there should be displayed to advantage every one of the trees and wood plants of the world that might be required to develop to develop common structures under the climatic and different states of the region." As Jane Stanford said in her 1903 deliver to the Stanford trustees