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Dominion Arboretum and Central Experimental Farm

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Arboretum, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada

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About Dominion Arboretum and Central Experimental Farm

Dominion Arboretum is a botanical garden located in Ottawa city of the province of Ontario in Canada. It belongs to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. It is spread in an area of 64 acres. The park is located between Prince of Wales Drive, Dow's Lake, and the Rideau Canal. It was founded in 1889. There is no need to pay any money to visit the park. It remains open from dawn to dusk daily.

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The place receives extremely hot and humid summers and shivering cold winters.
You can also enjoy the beautiful scenario of the Rideau Canal and Dow's lake while admiring the greenery of this park.
The park owns over 1700 different types of trees and shrubs including different flowers like magnolias, and azaleas as well as big trees like Metasequoia and Liriodendron.
The Ornamental Gardens is the most preferred tourist attraction with lilac walls, perennial borders, roses, hedges, and other beautiful plants which are shown seasonally.
It also owns a herbarium which has about 695 thousand specimens of preserved plants including 12600 types of fungus.
It is also a research center alongside being a tourist attraction.

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