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Watts, May Theilgaard

Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here


Identifier
3.33822
Format
Ink and colored pencil on white illustration board
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
111.7 cm W x 40.2 cm H (Item)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Description
A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.

Header: 
  • TREES OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
Subheads:
  • THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
  • The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
Types of trees depicted:

russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash 
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Language
English