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PLANNING PROCESS AND OBJECTIVES PRIOR TO PREPARATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT PLAIN FOR THIS SITE, A CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE WAS ESTABLISHED IN LATE 1974. THE GENERAL PURPOSE OF THIS COMMITTEE WAS TO AID THE PARK RESERVE DISTRICT IN DEVELOPING THE PLAN) FOR THE SITE. MEMBERSHIP IN THIS COMMITTEE OF TWELVE PEOPLE CONSISTS OF REPRESENTATION BY INTERESTED CITIZENS LIVING NEAR THE SITE, SEVERAL GARDEN CLUBS, THE (PJiVERSITY OF MINNESOTA'S LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM AND THE CITY OF ORONO. THE COtMITTEE COLLECTED INPUT REGARDING DESIRED GARDEN ELEMENTS FROM THE GENERAL PUBLIC AND REVIEWED THE PLANS AS THEY WERE FORMULATED BY THE PARK RESERVE DISTRICT STAFF. A QUESTIONNAIRE WAS DEVELOPED BY THE COMMITTEE AND DISTRIBUTED TO GARDEN) CLUBS, SERVICE CLUBS, AND PROFESSIONAL INTEREST GROUPS IN MINNEAPOLIS/ HENNEPIN COUNTY AREA. INFORMATION FROM THE QUESTIONNAIRES WAS COLLECTED AND SUMMARIZED IN JUNE OF 1975. THIS INFORMATION FORMED THE BASIS FOR A PRELIMINARY DRAFT PROGRAM WHICH WAS UTILIZED IN FORMULATING THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN WHICH HAS BEEN PERIODICALLY REVIEWED BY THE COMMITTEE. GIVEN THE DIRECTION OF THE WILL, INPUT FROM THE CITIZENS' ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND HENNEPIN COUNTY PARK RESERVE DISTRICT STAFF INVESTIGATIONS SUGGEST THAT THE GARDEN BE DEVELCPED AS A GENERAL PUBLIC DISPLAY GARDEN RATHER THAN ANJ ARBORETUM OR BOTANICAL GARDEN. SUCH A FACILITY WILL NOT DUPLICATE ANY OTHERS IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA AND WILL PROVIDE A GARDEN ELEMENT NOW LACKING IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA. THE NOERENBERG GARDEN WILL BE UNIQUE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA; PERHAPS IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. TO BETTER LtIDERSTA Z THE CC44CEPT OF A DISPLAY GARDEN, IT IS NECESSARY TO DEFINE AND COMPARE AN ARBORETUM, BOTANICAL GARDEN AND DISPLAY GARDEN. AN ARBORETUM OR BOTANICAL GARDEN I5 AN AREA SET ASIDE FOR GROWING AND DISPLAYING DIFFERENT ORNAMENTAL TREES, SHRUBS, VINES AND OTHER PLANTS. IT DOES N1OT NECESSARILY INCLUDE ALL THE PLANTS WHICH CAN BE GROWN IN A REGION, NOR DOES IT NECESSARILY INCLUDE FORMAL BEDS OR BORDERS OF "UALS AND PERENJNIALS. AN ARBORETUM DIFFERS FROM A BOTANICAL GARDEN IN THAT THE EMPHASIS, IS PLACED ON WOODY PLANTS, WHEREAS IN THE BOTANICAL GARDEN EMPHASIS IS NOT PLACED ON ANY PARTICULAR GROUP OF PLANTS. BOTH DIFFER FROM A DISPLAY GARDEN IN THAT A SERIOUS EFFORT IS MADE TO PLANT EXTENSIVE COLLECTIONS OFMANJY TYPES OF PLANTS NOT ONLY FOR DISPLAY, BUT ALSO FOR CRITICAL EXAMINJATION AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY. ARBORETA AND BOTANICAL GARDENS ARE SOMEWHAT SIMILAR AND HAVE A. THEIK GREATEST FMPHASIS, RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY. PLANTS ARE ARRANGED BY COLLECTIONS 10 AID THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL VARIETIES. LITTLE EMPHASIS IS GIVEN TO HERBACEOUS DISPLAYS. A DISPLAY GARDEN, P- -)NITRAST, EMPHASIZES HERBACEOUS FLORAL DISPLAYS. PLANT MATERIALS ARE NOT ARkANJGED AS COLLECTIONS, BUT ARE PRESENTED I-J DESIGNED COMPOS I T I Of JS WITH MAfJY TYPES OF PLANTS IN THE SAME COMPOSITION. A DISPLAY GARDEN ALSO EMPHASIZES APPR,ECIATIONJ OF PLANT MATERIALS AND GARDENING AS LEISURE ACTIVITY, LViEREAS BOTANICAL GARDENS AND ARBORETA EMPHASIZE STUDY AND EVALUAT ICfl.