Self-Guided Walking Tour of the Notable Trees on the Grounds of The
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the plants, trees or animals that live here. here. live that animals or trees plants, the litter, or cause any damage to our statuary, or to to or statuary, our to damage any cause or litter, al environment. Please do not not do Please environment. al natur the Respect • sanctuary. trees are meant to provide a place of peaceful peaceful of place a provide to meant are trees p noise levels down. The trail and the the and trail The down. levels noise p kee Please • leave by public safety officials. safety public by leave observed photographing others may be asked to to asked be may others photographing observed Those visitors. other and members, family our grounds. We respect the privacy of patients, patients, of privacy the respect We grounds. our ain from taking any photographs while on on while photographs any taking Refr • from ain patients’ recoveries. recoveries. patients’ of our notable trees notable our of and were among the most critical components in in components critical most the among were and ask that you: that ask that peaceful, park-like grounds provided respite respite provided grounds park-like peaceful, that A self-guided walking tour tour walking self-guided A guided walking tour of notable trees. However, we we However, trees. notable of tour walking guided spread belief within the psychiatric community community psychiatric the within belief spread the pleasure and botanical treasures of our self- our of treasures botanical and pleasure the - wide was there — interventions pharmaceutical Treasure We invite and encourage the public to experience experience to public the encourage and invite We before the advent of today’s therapeutic and and therapeutic today’s of advent the before At the time the project was undertaken — — undertaken was project the time the At patient privacy patient and grounds our Respect Cedar Hill Cemetery. Cemetery. Hill Cedar A Botanical Botanical A cones, pea sized. sized. pea cones, Weidenmann also designed Bushnell Park and and Park Bushnell designed also Weidenmann plates affixed to their trunks. their to affixed plates feathery, the trunk red-brown, and the numerous numerous the and red-brown, trunk the feathery, supervised and executed the project. Locally, Locally, project. the executed and supervised are significant specimens and are marked by brass brass by marked are and specimens significant are Olmsted planting. The branchlets are somewhat somewhat are branchlets The planting. Olmsted scaping endeavor was Jacob Weidenmann, who who Weidenmann, Jacob was endeavor scaping 28 noted on this map within, those highlighted highlighted those within, map this on noted 28 1861, making it highly unlikely that it was in the the in was it that unlikely highly it making 1861, - land Institute’s the in protégé Olmstead’s While there are many more trees here than the the than here trees more many are there While Japanese tree was introduced to England in in England to introduced was tree Japanese Grounds in Washington, D.C. Washington, in Grounds Botanical Society. Society. Botanical frequently planted variety of C. pisifera, this this pisifera, C. of variety planted frequently City, the Boston Park System, and the U.S. Capitol Capitol U.S. the and System, Park Boston the City, Connecticut the of Committee Tree Notable the of four similar trees in the immediate area. A A area. immediate the in trees similar four of other designs include Central Park in New York York New in Park Central include designs other England champions (largest of their species) by by species) their of (largest champions England This double-trunked specimen is the largest largest the is specimen double-trunked This of landscape architecture in this country. His His country. this in architecture landscape of (Chamaecyparis pisifera ‘Plumosa’) pisifera (Chamaecyparis have been designated as Connecticut and/or New New and/or Connecticut as designated been have native who is widely recognized as the founder founder the as recognized widely is who native PLUME SAWARA CYPRESS SAWARA PLUME 28. sought. Some of the larger trees on the walk today today walk the on trees larger the of Some sought. 1861 by Frederick Law Olmsted, a Hartford Hartford a Olmsted, Law Frederick by 1861 were lost, suitable replacements or substitutes were were substitutes or replacements suitable lost, were The grounds of the Institute were designed in in designed were Institute the of grounds The survive today, others died in the interim. As trees trees As interim. the in died others today, survive fort worthwhile, however. however. worthwhile, fort While we know some of the original specimens specimens original the of some know we While - ef the makes foliage fall red deep glorious The About the design the About late 19th and early 20th centuries. 20th early and 19th late other oaks because it is difficult to transplant. transplant. to difficult is it because oaks other predated the plan, and which were products of the the of products were which and plan, the predated often seen in park-like settings as often as some some as often as settings park-like in seen often specific trees were planted in 1861, which trees trees which 1861, in planted were trees specific The scarlet oak is native to Connecticut. It is is It Connecticut. to native is oak scarlet The health and substance abuse. substance and health OAK SCARLET 27. (Quercus coccinea) (Quercus been found. Therefore, we can only guess which which guess only can we Therefore, found. been research and education in the fields of behavioral behavioral of fields the in education and research includes numbered trees, no identifying key has has key identifying no trees, numbered includes leading provider of comprehensive patient care, care, patient comprehensive of provider leading have a copy of Olmsted’s original drawing, which which drawing, original Olmsted’s of copy a have more popular. more division of Hartford Hospital, the Institute is a a is Institute the Hospital, Hartford of division or because they were rare or unusual. Although we we Although unusual. or rare were they because or common lilac. Not a common tree, but becoming becoming but tree, common a Not lilac. common first hospital of any kind in Connecticut. Now a a Now Connecticut. in kind any of hospital first because they were very large or very old specimens, specimens, old very or large very were they because flowers which bloom somewhat later than the the than later somewhat bloom which flowers mental health centers in the country, and the the and country, the in centers health mental trees more than a century and a half ago were chosen chosen were ago half a and century a than more trees has cherrylike bark and big clusters of creamy creamy of clusters big and bark cherrylike has 1822, the Institute of Living was one of the first first the of one was Living of Institute the 1822, The original trees that were designated as notable notable as designated were that trees original The This species first came to the USA in 1876. It It 1876. in USA the to came first species This Welcome to the Institute of Living. Founded in in Founded Living. of Institute the to Welcome (Syringa reticulata) reticulata) (Syringa Welcome About the trees the About APANESE TREE LILAC LILAC TREE J APANESE 26. 1. KENTUCKY COFFEETREE 7. GINKGO (Ginkgo biloba) 13. SAUCER MAGNOLIA 20. JAPANESE ZELKOVA (Zelkova japonica) (Gymnocladus dioicus) Standing in front of Center Building is one of the (Magnolia x soulangiana) Once touted as the replacement for the besieged Although this is one of the smaller trees on largest ginkos in the country. The Ginkgo, native to A hybrid first produced in 1820, this tree has become American elm, the zelkova is a nice tree in its the Institute campus, it is rare enough to deserve eastern China, is the most primitive broad-leaved the most popular of magnolias. Known for its profusion own right. It was introduced to America in 1862, attention. Native to our midwest, it has twice tree extant, going back unchanged at least 65 million of large pink and white blossoms, it subsequently a year after the Olmsted installation. Note the compound leaves with 6 to 14 leaflets per stem. years. Its fan-shaped leaves are unique. Male trees has red, cone-like fruit. elm-like leaves and the handsome exfoliating bark. It is distinguished by furrowed bark, crooked are preferred because the smell of the female fruit Our tree is the New England champion zelkova. branches, and a big brown seed pod (female is objectionable to some. This specimen, largest of 14. ROHAN BEECH trees). The seeds were once used as a coffee several on the grounds, is the New England champion, (Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropurpurea Rohani’) 21. TULIP TREE (Liriodendron tulipifera) substitute. and one of the biggest in the USA. Because it can This hybrid was first produced in 1888. This specimen The tallest of native broadleaved trees, the tulip live to one thousand years old, it has plenty of was planted to replace several beeches, which is a majestic sight with its long, straight, limbless 2. EUROPEAN CUTLEAF BEECH growing to do. had reached the end of their lives. It immediately trunk. Its leaves are unusual — instead of ending in (Fagus sylvatica ‘Laciniata’) becomes a ‘notable’ tree due to its designation as a point, they end in a broad indentation. Because This natural mutation of the standard European 8. SASSAFRAS (Sassafras albidum) the state champion. tulip trees are so tall, their lovely green and orange, beech has the same smooth gray bark as the Most people know our native sassafras as a small tulip-shaped flowers are infrequently seen.