Alfred Rehder was a German-American botanical taxonomist and dendrologist who worked at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. He is generally regarded as the foremost dendrologist of his generation.
Rehder in the Arnold Arboretum library in 1898, shortly after his arrival in the U.S.
Rehder's birthplace, Waldenburg Castle
Möller's Deutsche Gärtner-Zeitung (1898)
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a botanical research institution and free public park, located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in North America. The landscape was designed by Charles Sprague Sargent and Frederick Law Olmsted and is the second largest "link" in the Emerald Necklace. The Arnold Arboretum's collection of temperate trees, shrubs, and vines has an emphasis on the plants of the eastern United States and eastern Asia, where arboretum staff and colleagues are sourcing new material on plant collecting expeditions. The arboretum supports research in its landscape and in its Weld Hill Research Building.
One of the small ponds within Arnold Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum pictured in 1921.
General view of Arnold Arboretum
Hunnewell Building, Arnold Arboretum