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Centennial Arboretum is a twenty-seven-acre botanical garden and public green space in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, centered on the Horticulture Center. Closely linked to Philadelphia’s 1876 American Centennial Exposition, it preserves many specimen trees and shrubs from Asia, Europe, and North America that were planted for the world’s fair, giving the landscape a living connection to the United States’ hundredth anniversary. Its collections are organized around those mature plantings rather than a single regional flora. The nearby Shofuso Japanese House and Garden and the annual Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia add enduring cultural and seasonal significance to the site.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States
