Our trees.

 "In a 145-acre plot of land that includes the current Arboretum and has Prince of Wales Drive and the Rideau Canal as boundaries, the Ottawa Botanical Garden Society plans a perennial garden, a children's garden, a heritage garden and a herb and medicinal garden." (From: Hattie Klotz, Ottawa Citizen, May 24, 2003.)

A June 26, 2019 letter to the Ottawa Citizen. "Canadensis has attempted on multiple occasions to carve away at the southeast corner of the Central Experimental Farm---effectively privatizing public land---ignoring that in Ottawa our garden was always focused on the trees."

"There's a chunk of that that is part of the arboretum, a lot of rare old trees. Its a national treasure. Will there be some kind of reassurance given that when they go in there, are they just going to clear-cut or will there be some kind of protection for these beautiful old trees? Old exotic trees, hedges by the tennis courts." (Comments to Kate Eggins, Director of Communications, the Ottawa Hospital, February 6, 2017.)

"Prince of Wales adjacent to the Farm is being widened from 2 lanes to 4 lanes." (Dow's Lake-Glebe Report June 11, 2010.) "Every spring blossoming crabapple trees transform Prince of Wales Drive as it winds through the CEF. On either side of the road standing north and south of the roundabout, stand roughly 100 mature trees. Planted in 1952, they represent the better part of the CEF's Collection of the Lake Series of Rosybloom crabapples originated by Isabella Preston. This is part of the Arboretum."

 "AAFC is moving the Historic Hedge Collection but the row of fruit trees along Prince of Wales appears to have no future." (From: The Sir John Carling Site, Greenspace Alliance of Canada's Capital, March 17, 2017.) In the year 2021 Canada Post honoured Isabella Preston, David Foster Cameron and Dexter Reid Sampson for their contributions to horticulture.

The O-Train corridor near Dow's Lake before April of 2022.

After April of 2022.

"It is understood that a portion of the Arboretum next to the O-Train line will be dug up to double-track that portion of the transit route, although this area will be replanted." (Part of a January 5, 2018 letter from Judy Dodds, President of the Friends of the Central Experimental Farm, to Federal Minister Catherine McKenna.)