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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/5926/B3.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='Little-known Garden Supports US Nursery Industry' data-article-id='6533'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='10917'>Placed among the busy streets of Washington, D.C. is a large public garden that many Americans have never heard of.</span> <span data-start-time='10917' data-end-time='28125'>The U.S. National Arboretum includes a collection of flowering plants called azaleas, a field of native plants called ferns, and flowering trees in the dogwood tree area.</span> <span data-start-time='28125' data-end-time='35708'>Government scientists are in charge of the 183-hectare area. </span> <span data-start-time='35708' data-end-time='49938'>Their main goal is to strengthen the U.S. economy by making sure an important kind of agriculture, called the nursery industry, continues to perform well.</span> <span data-start-time='49938' data-end-time='65646'>“What we do is support the American nursery industry … which is really one of the largest forms of agriculture,” said Richard Olsen, director of the National Arboretum.</span> <span data-start-time='65646' data-end-time='81521'>He said that different kinds of agriculture industry like ornamental landscapes, horticulture, and turf, “… all of that occurs in every county, in every state of the union. </span> <span data-start-time='81521' data-end-time='91417'>So, it forms a large portion of American agriculture and therefore, an important part of the economy.”</span> <span data-start-time='91417' data-end-time='109604'>The most recent numbers from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, show that the ornamental and landscape plant industry creates $13.8 billion in sales each year.</span> <span data-start-time='109604' data-end-time='115354'>The garden was established by Congress in 1927. </span> <span data-start-time='115354' data-end-time='125958'>It plays a leading part in researching and developing plants like trees, shrubs, flowers, and grasses.</span> <span data-start-time='125958' data-end-time='133875'>Olsen called the arboretum a “science-based research facility and public garden.” </span> <span data-start-time='133875' data-end-time='140479'>He said the place has bred or released around 650-plus plants. </span> <span data-start-time='140479' data-end-time='152604'>They include more than 450 azaleas for landscaping, but also trees like maples, American elms, and hemlocks.</span> <span data-start-time='152604' data-end-time='160917'>The arboretum is home to one of the largest collections of preserved seeds in the world. </span> <span data-start-time='160917' data-end-time='169208'>The National Arboretum Herbarium houses around 700,000 example seeds. </span> <span data-start-time='169208' data-end-time='177667'>They include seeds from plants that the USDA considers as economically important.</span> <span data-start-time='177667' data-end-time='188542'>Scientists collect many genetically different seeds within a kind of plant from both native and non-native plants. </span> <span data-start-time='188542' data-end-time='203167'>The reason for collecting that data is to protect plants from harmful situations like climate change, changed environments, or other new and possible risks.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button 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