Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: An Apple Tree was Planted on a Farm

Identifier3.19499

TypeDrawing

Date created1940 – 1960

DescriptionPrimarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the remains of the farm that later became the Arboretum, including an apple tree that still stood at the time.

[Illustration of a farmer with a shovel standing next to a sapling] Header: AN APPLE TREE was planted on a farm, many years ago / The farm later became a part of the Arboretum

Text and illustrations from top to bottom:

• [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record: 
  • 1) The old apple tree still stands, at the corner of Spring Road and Oakwood Drive.
  • 2) Across the road from the apple tree is a bit of the old well curb.
  • 3) Nearby, along Spring Road, is a spring, with a bit of cemented wall that was probably the base of the farmer's spring house. [illustration of a tree]

LanguageEnglish