Doane College Osterhout Arboretum

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Doane College Osterhout Arboretum 300 acres (1.2 km²) is an arboretum located at 1014 Boswell Street on the campus of Doane College in Crete, Nebraska.

The campus features more than 160 species of trees and shrubs, and a wide variety of flowering plants and bushes, including flora such as Exbury Azalea, Star Magnolia, and Flowering Dogwood.

Burlington Missouri River Rail builder Thomas Doane, the college's founder, was responsible for the earliest plantings on the college's then-barren hilltop site. A horticulturist by hobby, Doane corresponded with noted Nebraska agriculturalist Julius Sterling Morton on several occasions regarding tree species.

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