Watts, May Theilgaard
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: A Fence Long Gone Marked A Boundary
Identifier
3.19498Format
black marker and watercolor on illustration boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
35.6 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
mid 20th centuryDescription
Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material shows how a fence once marked a boundary through a forest.Header: A fence (long gone) marked a boundary through a forest (long gone)
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record:
- 1. A long row of trees: red oaks, white oaks, and ironwood [an illustration of a row of trees]
- 2. the soil profile on both sides of this row [arrow pointing right to illustration of a cross-section of soil]
- Interpreting the record:
- 1) Because red oaks and ironwoods belong in rich (mesophytic) woods, and
- 2) because a thin layer of black soil on top of clay is typical of forests in this area (but not of prairies) and
- 3) because there would have been forest-margin trees, like hawthorn, if this fence had edged a forest - We read the record as above [arrow extending upward to header]
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Soil ecologyDrawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch (ironwood)
Quercus rubra L. (northern red oak)
Quercus alba L. (white oak)
