John Claudius Loudon was a Scottish botanist, garden designer and author. He was the first to use the term arboretum in writing to refer to a garden of plants, especially trees, collected for the purpose of scientific study. He was married to Jane Webb, a fellow horticulturalist, and author of science-fiction, fantasy, horror, and gothic stories.
The Loudon memorial in Pinner churchyard
John and Jane Loudon plaque, Bayswater
An Encyclopædia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture, 1836
An arboretum is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, many modern arboreta are in botanical gardens as living collections of woody plants and are intended at least in part for scientific study.
Autumn colours at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England
The pinetum section at RHS Wisley
Neptune's fountain at Trsteno Arboretum
Hatanpää Arboretum, a 20th-century botanical garden in Tampere, Finland