“Plan—and Plant For a Better World” J. C. Raulston and the North Carolina State University Arboretum

Documenting Raulston’s early life and his arrival at NC State in 1975, through his development of the arboretum and its dedication in 1980, to his untimely death in a car accident in 1996, the exhibit is a visual trove that draws upon Raulston’s rich archive of travel notebooks, lecture notes, ephemera, and correspondence, as well as a collection of over 88,000 color slides. A testament to Raulston’s enormous impact on the nursery industry, today’s 10-acre JC Raulston Arboretum is one of the Southeast’s top teaching gardens, hosting over 46,000 plants of more than 6,000 different species in a living laboratory and outdoor classroom.

Documenting Raulston’s early life and his arrival at NC State in 1975, through his development of the arboretum and its dedication in 1980, to his untimely death in a car accident in 1996, the exhibit is a visual trove that draws upon Raulston’s rich archive of travel notebooks, lecture notes, ephemera, and correspondence, as well as a collection of over 88,000 color slides. A testament to Raulston’s enormous impact on the nursery industry, today’s 10-acre JC Raulston Arboretum is one of the Southeast’s top teaching gardens, hosting over 46,000 plants of more than 6,000 different species in a living laboratory and outdoor classroom.