SITUATED ON two-and-a-half acres around the historic Agricultural Dean’s Residence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW), Allen Centennial Garden serves as an outdoor classroom for both students and the larger community. The garden’s name honors Ethel and Oscar Allen; she a botany and bacteriology UW alumna and former faculty member, and he a professor at UW for nearly 30 years. Funding from them made the garden possible, and its dedication in 1989 coincided with the 100th anniversary of the university’s Horticulture Department, hence the name Allen Centennial.
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