The beauty of the area we now recognize as the Earl G. Maxwell Arboretum is the result of the vision, planning, and hard work of many people. People whose love of plants, especially trees, has afforded us a gift of horticultural splendor. Maxwell Arboretum is a gift of green vistas with shady paths, of majestic oaks, lindens and pines. It is a gift of glowing prairie in the fall, of stark, silent beauty in the winter. But the Arboretum's allure is also in the details: the small Chionodoxa blossom of early spring, the Liriodendron's oddly shaped leaf, and the Easter egg pearls of the Porcelain Vine. It is at once an educational resource, a jewel of Lincoln gardens, a place of retreat and solace in a world of stress and hustle.