Crees and Shrubs Whi of Pro: spe, Lark “ge ae ESL NNN wentaiai Rs et Jouis HarmanPet STECleeeieet Gopright NO COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT: INDEX MAP OF PROSPECT PARK SHOWING AREAS COVERED BY THE SECTIONAL DIAGRAMS = tes eas SI PARADE GROUND i | | fp ii 2 Be es eee Trees am Shrubs of Prospect Park By LOUIS HARMAN PEET TMustrated E THE GREENWICH PRINTING COMPANY 186-190 West Fourth Street, New York | Two Copies Received MAR 15 1906 Copyright Entry Copyright, 1902, by Louis Harman Peet Copyright, 1906, by Nellie Marvin Peet THIRD EDITION: LIBRARY of CONGRESS 10, ye 06 Gn Wy Wife N-M-P- ‘4 ee a PREPACE. Tuts book has been prepared to aid the city nature lovers who frequent our beautiful Park in identifying its trees and shrubs by diagrams of location and text description. Its need grew out of actual experience and it is hoped that its service will be direct and prac- tical. How many there are who come to our Park to whom the trees are simply trees and the shrubs, bushes. The individuality of the oak, the hornbeam, or the maple is lost to them in the general mass. Many of these would gladly learn had they the time or opportunity, and to meet the needs of such and also to supplement mere identification with descriptions of characteristics of form, foliage, flower and fruit, has been the gov- erning purpose in the general plan of preparing this book. Its method is self-evident and the park rambler, following the paths, soon gets to recognize the various types of trees and shrubs. These grow more and more distinctive and individual as their observed char- acteristics become more familiar to him and he finds out that when these have been once learned thorough- ly, not only has he learned them for Prospect Park, but for Central Park, and, in short, for the parks of most cities of climatic conditions similar to ours. Of course, in using this book, it must be borne in mind that it would be utterly impossible to locate Vill every tree and shrub passed along the Walks, on the sectional diagrams. Only those mentioned in the descriptive text are plotted and in using the diagrams to locate these care in judging distances should be exercised. To attempt to plot, on diagrams of the scales used in this book, every tree or shrub along the pathside would result in a mass of black spots from which it would be impossible to distinguish any- thing. It was therefore thought best to locate some of the representative types clearly and distinctly rather than to attempt to locate all from which none could be definitely found. Try to find shrubs or trees on the diagrams at easily distinguishable points and work from these to others, verifying, as you go along, by the descriptive text. If you find you have not judged the distances rightly, the descriptive text should act as a check upon you to set you right. To further assist the user of this hand-book in the identification of the representative dots upon the dia- grams various landmarks, such as lamp-posts, statues, tablets, arches, rustic shelters have been extensively marked and these will serve to rectify wrong or to reassure correct judgments of distancing. So let the lover of nature, who walks here in his leisure hours, take up the study of these beautiful trees and shrubs with the determined purpose of knowing them. In the knowing of them this book can be but-a suggestive aid. If you would get the most from it, follow up its hints in your botanical text and refer- ence books. Indeed this is the proper way to use the book. It is intended to show you a /ittle and then 1X you yourself must do more by following up the hint, enlarging your knowledge by wider studies of the details of bud, flower, leaf, bark and general character- istics of habits of growth. For this further study of details, the author strongly recommends the use of such excellent text-books as Gray’s Field, Forest and Garden Botany, revised by L. H. Bailey, Keeler’s Our Native Trees (which is equipped with excellent photographs), Apgar’s Trees of the Northern United States, Dame and Brooks’s Hand-book of the Trees of New England. Any of these makes a good field book to take with you on your rambles. If you wish to go further, the follow- ing larger works will be found of great practical value: Loudon’s Cyclopedia of Trees, Bailey’s Cyclo- pedia of Horticulture, Sargent’s Silva of North Amert- ca, Britton and Brown’s Flora of the Northeastern United States, Emerson’s Report on the Trees and Shrubs of Massachusetts. These can be consulted in any good sized library. In the preparation and completion of this book the author wishes to express his thanks for many cour- tesies extended by Commissioner Richard Young of the Park Department and for much practical aid and valuable suggestions most cordially given by Mr. John Whalley, Arboriculturist of Prospect Park and Mr. Edward Kasold, Foreman Tree Planter of Pros- pect Park. The author’s acknowledgments for valuable infor- mation regarding many of the rare varieties are also hereby expressed to Dr. C. S. Sargent of the Arnold x Arboretum, Dr. Charles H. Peck, State Botanist of New York, to Messrs. Ellwanger and Barry of the Mount Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y., to Mr. S. B. Parsons and Mr. Theodore Lawlor of the Parsons Nurseries, Flushing, N. Y., and to his friend and fel- low park rambler, Dr. L. Frazee, of this city, whose ripe knowledge, generous sympathy and cordial inter- est in the preparation of this book has helped very materially in its completion. The author wishes also to express his appreciation of the skillful work done on his sectional diagrams by Mr. Edward Yorke Farquhar of Flatbush. LOUIS HARMAN PEST. 755 Ocean Avenue, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Thanks are gratefully acknowledged to Mr. Thomas Squire Mathews for his kind aid in securing many of the photographs used in this book. MRS. LOUIS HARMAN PEET. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE meedaza Entrance to battle: Pass. ics os ese. se cee eee 7 femeeatce Pass to Mlower Garden, .0...0....2s05.0004 20 fit Flower Garden....’:.. aS is eu ec eae BM On ei ehh et 43 Pee Vink Mntrance to Irving Statue...) 4060. 0.2.66 57 ie) irvine Statue to Ocean Avenue Entrance......... 72 aie -Lancoln statue to First Summer House...-........ 90 VII. First Summer House to Second Summer House, Bree ee eh sare ue Se hte oc aisha eo ow les wats 103 VIII. Second to Fourth Summer House, Large Lake... I19 IX. 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