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The
Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum is an
arboretum of 13 ha (33 acres), located at 101 Ferry Road,
Bristol, Rhode Island, mid-way between
Newport and
Providence, Rhode Island, on
Bristol Harbor with views over
Narragansett Bay. It includes a mansion, with a 4 ha (10 acre) lawn and over 300
species of woody plants in its arboretum and gardens, including both native and exotic species.
The Mansion and its grounds were established in the
1890s by Augustus and Bessie Van Wickle as their summer retreat.
Augustus Van Wickle was from
Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with a fortune in the coal-mining business, and donor of the Van Wickle gates at
Brown University. Today's grounds are primarily the design of John DeWolf, and date between 1896 and 1913.
Blithwold's grounds include species from North America, Europe, China and Japan. Specimen trees include
magnolia (
Magnolia spp.),
linden (
Tilia spp.),
Ginkgo (
Ginkgo biloba),
Black Tupelo (
Nyssa sylvatica),
Dawn Redwood (
Metasequoia glyptostroboides),
Franklinia (
Franklinia alatamaha),
Eastern Hemlock (
Tsuga canadensis), various
oaks (
Quercus spp.) and
beeches (
Fagus spp.). Other notable trees include a weeping
Pagoda Tree (
Styphnolobium japonicum 'Pendula'),
Hiba (
Thujopsis dolobrata),
Katsura (
Cercidiphyllum japonicum), and
Sugi (
Cryptomeria japonica). The grounds also include English
Yews (
Taxus baccata) and
Eastern Junipers (
Juniperus virginiana), as well as what is claimed to be the largest
Giant Sequoia (
Sequoiadendron giganteum) on the East Coast, planted in
1911, and currently about 100 feet tall.
Blithewold's Bamboo Grove covers an area nearly the size of a tennis court, and is planted with
Phyllostachys aureosulcata, the Yellow-groove
bamboo, which grows to 10 m (30 feet) tall.
Blithewold has maintained contacts with the
Arnold Arboretum ever since 1926, when staff botanists visited Blithewold to see the Chinese toon tree (
Toona sinensis) in flower for what was believed to be the first time in the United States.
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