Watts, May Theilgaard
Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Cut-Over and Grazed Land
Identifier
3.19502Format
watercolor and colored marker on illustration boardDigitization Status
DigitizedReproduction:
OriginalDimensions
35.5 cm W x 56 cm H (Item)Extent
1 sheetType
DrawingDate created
mid 20th centuryDescription
Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the grazed and cut-over land that was added to the Arboretum, including the effects of fencing out cattle.[Illustration of a tree stump] Header: CUT-OVER AND GRAZED LAND was added to the Arboretum in 1910 [image of a cow's head with its tongue out]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD:
- 1. No big trees in this area [illustration of a tree with a large red "X" over it]
- 2. Many stump sprouts [sketch of stump sprouts]
- 3. Many aspens and big-toothed poplars [sketch of aspens and poplars]
- 4. Young oaks, many of the same age [sketch of oaks]
- INTERPRETATION of THE RECORD:
- 1. Aspens and big-toothed poplars grow in sunny places.
- 2. The even age oaks show by their annual rings that they started growing on the year that the Arboretum fenced cows from this area.
- 3. The wild flowers have returned steadily to this area. There was only thistles, milkweed, dandelions, and other tough ones, there when the cattle were fenced out. Now there are trilliums, spring beauties, blood-root, may-apple, and many, many, others.
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Animal-plant relationshipsPlants--Effect of grazing on
Trilliums
Wild flowers
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Claytonia virginica L. (spring beauty)
Podophyllum peltatum L. (mayapple)
Populus grandidentata Michx. (big-toothed aspen)
Sanguinaria canadensis L. (bloodroot)
Taraxacum officinale (common dandelion)
Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)
Quercus L. (oak)
Cirsium Mill. (thistle)
