| The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical | | | | China, Tea, and Noisette Roses; Shrub Roses (including |
| Gardens is located on 150 acres of land at 1150 | | | | the David Austin English Roses); and Modern Roses |
| Oxford Rd. in the city of San Marino, California. San | | | | from all parts of the world". |
| Marino is best known for the financial wealth of it's | | | | "Playful plant choices, such as topiary animals, weeping |
| residents and for it's proximity to the city of Pasadena | | | | mulberry trees, papyrus, and tree aloes resembling |
| Many people, however, believe that the city's biggest | | | | something from the world of Dr. Seuss, create a |
| asset is the Huntington Library which is made of three | | | | storybook atmosphere that combines elements of |
| art galleries and a library which "showcase magnificent | | | | fantasy with the very real wonder of nature" make up |
| collections of paintings, sculptures, rare books, | | | | the children's garden. |
| manuscripts, and decorative arts", and the botanical | | | | "The Shakespeare garden contains shrubs and |
| garden with a collection which "features over 14,000 | | | | perennials that evoke an English garden. Many of the |
| different species of plants". | | | | plants have been cultivated for centuries and were |
| The Huntington houses such treasures as "the | | | | even mentioned in works of Shakespeare, including |
| Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury | | | | pansies, violets, pinks, rosemary, daffodils, iris, roses, |
| Tales; a Gutenberg Bible on vellum; the double-elephant | | | | pomegranate, and orange." |
| folio edition of Audubon’s Birds of America; a | | | | In the Subtropical Garden, "Walking east to west from |
| world-class collection of the early editions of | | | | the Jungle Garden, the areas transition from subtropical |
| Shakespeare’s works; original letters of | | | | southeast Asia and South America plants, to |
| Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and Lincoln; and an | | | | Mesoamerica plants (Mexico and Central America) in |
| unsurpassed collection of materials relating to the | | | | the central beds, Chile in the upper central bed, |
| history of the American West.", 18th century British and | | | | southern Africa in the western bed extending along |
| French art, American art ranging from the early 18th | | | | the road and in beds continuing uphill to the lawn, to the |
| century to the early 20th, French and British sculpture, | | | | Mediterranean region in the upper two west beds." |
| tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and silver, and British | | | | There are also Chinese, Desert, Herb, Camellia, |
| drawings and watercolors. Additionaly, the Huntington is | | | | Japanese, Australian, Palm and Lilly Pond gardens as |
| world renowned as home to Gainsborough’s | | | | well as a Botanical Conservatory |
| Blue Boy and Lawrence’s Pinkie. | | | | The Huntington is closed Mondays and the following |
| "Henry Huntington began developing the Botanical | | | | holidays: Christmas Eve Day, Christmas Day, New |
| Gardens in 1903. Now they span nearly 150 acres with | | | | Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day |
| sweeping lawns and vistas interspersed with statuary, | | | | (July 4), Labor Day and Thanksgiving. |
| tempiettos, and benches. Approximately 15,000 kinds | | | | Admission is free to members. For non members the |
| of plants from all over the world make up the botanical | | | | fees are Adults $15, Seniors (age 65+) $12.00, |
| collections, many landscaped into a series of theme | | | | Students (age 12-18 or with full-time student I.D.) $10.00, |
| gardens." | | | | Youths (age 5-11) $6.00, children under 5 are free. |
| The three and a half acre Huntington Rose Garden is | | | | Groups of 15 or more are $11 per person. Admission is |
| comprised of approximately 1,200 cultivars made up of | | | | free to all visitors on the first Thursday of every |
| "Old Garden Roses (roses developed before 1901); | | | | month. |