Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Know, Know, Know Your Oaks, This Is How They Grow

Identifier3.19509

TypeDrawing

Date created1940 – 1960

DescriptionPrimarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the growth direction of five types of oak tree branches. Illustrations depict small human-shaped figures that indicate tree branch growth with arms and run diagonally down the center of the image with descriptive text on either side. 

Header: Know, know, know your oaks, / This is how they grow:

Text and illustrations from top to bottom:

• Red Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised overhead] (arms held to indicate acute-angled branching)
• White Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulders] (arms indicate right-angled branching)
• Bur Oak, [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder and elbows bent down] (elbows indicated gnarled branching)
• Pin Oak, [illustration of figure with arms extended at sides] (deflected lower branches)
• and Hill's, untidy below. [illustration of figure with arms raised to shoulder, elbows bent down, and fingers splayed] (fingers indicate deflected, dead, lower branches)

LanguageEnglish