Feel free to wander over the Arboretum property and to create your own route to and from the Visitors' Center. The map provided here (& also at the Visitors' Center) should insure that you will be able to find your way, and the level topography of the site should enable you to spot landmarks such as the Far Barn from most vantage points. However, we should like to suggest that your visit include one or more of the following destinations.

POLLY’S PLAY PEN.
This rectangular area measuring 286 feet long by 35 feet wide on the southwestern edge of the property is fenced to protect the plants growing there from rabbits and deer. Included in the area are many of the Polly’s plant introductions, including the famous North Tisbury azaleas. Other rare plants, such as the beautiful Himalayan Daphne genkwa, and Shortia galacifolia from the southern Appalachians grow in association with hardy Camellia cultivars and a wide variety of other rare and interesting species.

THE DOGWOOD ALLÉE
Beginning at the "Gym" and extending 284 feet is an astonishing allée of the Kousa Dogwood, a species native to China and Japan. Flowering from the middle of June into July, these spectacular plants are among the finest small trees for home landscapes in the New England region. Several of the trees forming the allée are Polly’s introductions, selected for their habit of growth, bract characters, and fruit size and color.

THE PLEACHED HORNBEAM ARBOR
In the southeast corner of the Arboretum near State Road is a horticultural folly, which is the result of years of careful training and pruning. Sometimes referred to as the "Tunnel of Love," this curiosity was begun in 1964, and each tree of Carpinus betulus var. columnaris that comprises the arbor was carefully trained and pruned or sheared until the tunnel was completed. Even now, the trees are pruned on an annual basis to maintain the wonderful arbor.

Stewartia pseudocamellia 'Mint Frills'