What Is the Purpose of a Public Garden - Assignment Example

You will learn how to use the Campus Arboretum website to locate any of the 7000 trees currently in our inventory.

a.What is the three-fold purpose of the Land Grant Mission? Explain how this supports or conflicts with the goals of a public garden.

        The three-fold purpose of the land grant mission is to expand educational opportunities as well as help address important societal concerns. This supports the public garden in that this mission goes hand in hand with the public gardens mission to preserve trees in the campus arboretum,  introduce new plants and promote biodiversity, provide guidelines for sustainable tree care and landscape management document tree histories, and provide tools and programs to educate the students and the public about sustainable urban horticulture.

2. How many acres does the UA Campus Arboretum cover

The campus arboretum covers more than 20 acres

3. Read the help document for the GIS Map available in the Assignment 3 contents. Re-visit the UA Campus Arboretum site to access the GIS Map (Under the Search Tree Collections tab) to determine the following information

1. What species is accession (Plant ID_N) 789

       The species is  Pinaceae-family name, Pinus halepensis-botanical name Aleppo Pine-common name,  Mediterranean-origin

1. How many specimens of Chorisia (Genus) are listed on the map?

5 specimens of Chorisia are listed on the map