When asked to sponsor a national rosarium in Washington, D.C., chocolate magnate Milton Hershey instead decided to create “a nice garden of roses” for his local community. Now there’s 23 acres with themed gardens including Japanese Garden, Herb Garden, an Arboretum with horsechestnuts, Persian parrotia, bald cypress, beech, hemlocks and fragrant snowbell, an Oak Grove, a Butterfly House Walk with 300 North American butterflies of nearly 25 varieties, and a Children’s Garden.The renown rose garden has over 5,600 roses, representing 275 varieties, some originally hand-planted by Mr. Hershey's gardeners.
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