The Herbarium at Garland Farm Jones Hawthorn (Crataegus jonesae) The Beatrix Farrand Society’s 2015 Herbarium Exhibition Renowned landscape architect Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) documented the Take a very at Reef Point, her long-time home close look! in Bar Harbor, Maine, in an herbarium of One of the Trees and Shrubs: hundreds of pressed specimens. herbarium The Structure of the Landscape specimens The herbarium was a major component of in the 2015 Farrand’s vision of Reef Point as a place Exhibition where students could study and displays a plant material. The specimens were very special housed in the library at Reef Point until hawthorn, she donated them to the University of Crataegus California, Berkeley. jonesae.

The herbarium specimens are now digitized, making the Garland Farm Beatrix Jones Farrand discovered this exhibitions possible. You can also view small tree, which is native to Prince the specimens online; go to this website: Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/projects.html Brunswick, Québec and Maine. The plant and click on “UC/JEPS Specimen Portal” was officially named for her1 by Charles in the “Databases” menu. Sprague Sargent (1841-1927), a gifted botanist who served as the first Director of the Arnold . The 2015 Summer Exhibition Sargent met Farrand when she was just 20 The 2015 Summer Exhibition, “Trees and years old, and played a critical role as her Shrubs: The Structure of the Landscape”, mentor. He suggested that she study features woody plants that provided year- landscape gardening, hosted her studies at View the Exhibition on Open Days: round interest in Reef Point’s landscape. the , encouraged her to Thursdays, July 2 - Sept 10, 1-5 pm travel to see art and landscapes, and Some of the species displayed in the 2015 taught her the basics of . View the Exhibition on Program Days: Herbarium Exhibition are part of the living Sargent urged Farrand to fit her designs to plant collection at Garland Farm, which the land, rather than change the land to Visit our website for dates and details: was Farrand’s last home. As you walk accommodate designs. www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org through the landscape, note the Stewartia Garland Farm in front of the garage, the Metasequoia 1 located near the Terrace , and the Little, E.L. 1963. Check list of native and 475 Bay View Drive, Bar Harbor ME naturalized trees of the United States (including many other evergreen and deciduous Alaska). Handbook No. 41. U.S. trees and shrubs found on the property. Forest Service. Dawn Redwood and Stewartia Accent Trees

Few if any other Maine had these A Sampling of Plants in the Reef Point’s landscape two plants when the herbarium was created. 2015 Herbarium Exhibition included many trees and large shrubs whose Dawn redwood (Metasequoia displays changed with glyptostroboides) was thought to be extinct t h e s e a s o n , a s until it was found in the wild in central documented in the China in the early 1940s. Seeds were brought The 2015 Herbarium Exhibition documents herbarium collection. to ’s Arnold Arboretum in 1948, and the diversity and beauty of Reef Point’s trees either seeds or plants and shrubs with a display of more than 100 Native amelanchier were hand-delivered specimens. species and introduced to Beatrix Farrand at crabapples are often Reef Point on 4 May called “trees for all 1950. A note on the Trees Form the Landscape’s Canopy seasons”, a tribute to h e r b a r i u m s h e e t t h e i r y e a r - r o u n d states “Reef Point The native forest of Mt Desert Island is rich interest of flowers, pltd. 1 out side fall in evergreens, including spruces, hemlocks, foliage, fruits and form. 1950 - two others in pines and firs. pots - came from Staghorn sumac, a Arnold Arboretum.” Deciduous trees complement these plants n a t i v e p l a n t t h a t with seasonal change of light, color and colonizes places with Today, a mature dawn redwood is growing texture. dry soil, displays red next to the Terrace Garden at Garland Farm. flowers and fruits Marion Spaulding, who collected the Reef during the summer and The herbarium specimen of Korean stewartia Point herbarium specimen of red maple spectacular foliage (Stewartia koreana) displays one of the tree’s (Acer rubrum), captured the plant’s beautiful color in the fall. It also memorable features, a showy white flower. fall color. Her specimen of balsam fir (Abies anchors the soil on Korean stewartia remains quite uncommon balsamea) is so fresh-looking and well made steep banks, greatly in the nursery industry, adding to its allure. that it appears to protrude from the sheet. reducing soil erosion.

While at Garland Golden chain tree F a r m , y o u c a n (Laburnum x watereri) i n s p e c t a l iv i n g continues to be a specimen of Korean popular focal point in stewartia in front of formal gardens. A the garage, near the beautiful specimen is h o u s e . E v e n i n included in the Reef winter it is beautiful, Point herbarium, and a with its mottled gray- l i v e s p e c i m e n i s brown-orange-cream located near the barn exfoliating bark. door at Garland Farm.