Editing Haverford College (section)

===Haverford College Arboretum===
Comprising the entire campus, the [[Haverford College Arboretum]] is the oldest collegiate arboretum in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/facilities/resources.php#arboretum|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307084939/http://www.haverford.edu/facilities/resources.php#arboretum|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College: Facilities Management|archivedate=March 7, 2011|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref> In 1834, a year after the college's founding, the English landscape gardener William Carvill was hired to design the plan for the campus. Carvill developed a design to replace the tilled fields, woodlots and pastures, using trees to frame and complement open spaces. He bordered the lanes with alleés of trees and planted groups of trees in odd numbers. Carvill also constructed grape arbors and a serpentine walk, reflecting the English landscape tradition of Sir [[Humphry Repton|Humphrey Repton]]. Carvill's mark is still evident today in the pastoral landscape which includes several original trees including a Swamp white oak, Quercus bicolor, and Bur oak, Quercus macrocarpa, on Founders Green.

In 1901, a group of students and alumni formed the Campus Club to help preserve the campus landscape after discovering Carvill's original plan.  Their work eventually led to the founding of the Haverford College Campus Arboretum Association (now the Haverford College Arboretum Association) in 1974, which continues to perpetuate Carvill's original design. To date, the arboretum's {{convert|216|acre|km2}} contain a nature trail distancing 2.2 miles, a [[pinetum]] with 300 different conifers, a duck pond, historic trees of diverse species, sculpture, as well as flower and Asian gardens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.haverford.edu/Arboretum/collections.php|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008174715/http://www.haverford.edu/Arboretum/collections.php|url-status=dead|title=Haverford College: Arboretum|archivedate=October 8, 2010|website=www.haverford.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Haverford College Nature Trail |url=https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/haverford-college-nature-trail |access-date=2023-06-13 |website=AllTrails.com}}</ref>

{{Panorama |image=The Haverford College duck pond through 3 seasons..png |height=200 |align=center |caption=[[Photomontage|montage]] of the Haverford duck pond through three months: October 1, 2007; November 21, 2007; December 6, 2007}}