Welcome to the Seth Boyden Children’s Arboretum Welcome to the Seth Boyden open to visitors school days: 4pm to sunset Children’s Arboretum weekends: sunrise to sunset

Set on the grounds of seth boyden elementary school, our Go to the Seth Boyden Arboretum website to find links for arboretum is home to more than 120 trees, from Apples to Zelkovas, scavenger hunt worksheets and other resources: each one labeled with its species and fun facts. www.sethbodyen.com/arboretum Guided by on-site maps, visitors can follow a meandering trail The arboretum was developed in 2016 to 2018 by the Outdoor that starts in our native species garden and winds past the plantings Learning Committee of the Seth Boyden PTA. The content of throughout the property. Twelve “story” stations on the trail offer the Story Trails Stations and the Tree markers was developed by placards with information and questions that encourage children Tia Swanson, Abby Sher and Matthias Ebinger. Sarah Gifford to think about nature in new ways. designed the story trail signage and the cover to this binder. Vegetables in our produce garden, a giant sundial, and, in the Our special thanks go to our generous supporters: summertime, a working water mister are among the discoveries that await. Kids can engage in imaginative play in our woodland − Sustainable New Jersey − The Ebinger Family habitat, with stump “seats” facing a wood-built “throne,” or they − Maplewood Township − The Emmons Family can climb on our three playground structures and run around on − Glenn’s Landscaping, Maplewood − The Fisher Family our wide-open green space. Adults can enjoy relaxing at tables or on − South Orange Township − The Goring Family wooden benches. − Lowe’s Tool Box Grant − The Hanger Family − HelloVanguard.com, Maplewood − The Holtz Family This binder contains all the materials for our Arboretum: it starts and − Rails Company, Maplewood − The Kern-Benigno Family ends with the trail head signs, that are located in the front and − The Graduating Class of 2015 − The Kraft Family back of the school yard. It contains all the tree markers that are − Google − The Riekenberg Family placed next to the trees as engraved concrete blocks. It also contains − Rutgers Master Gardener Program − The Spanier Family the trail marker placards, the colorful pages that hang from − The Anstatt Family − Walter Robert Stuetzel each of the 12 nature story trail stations. − The Buchanan/Miller Family − The Swanson Family

We are also grateful to arborist Todd Lamm, landscape architect William Scerbo and historian Susan Newberry for their input and advice.

discover explore imagine WHAT IS A HABITAT GARDEN? 1 Can you find all 8 marker stones with the 1 Imagine you are a bird looking for a home. This is a habitat garden—designed as a goldfinch on it? Write about what you want for yourself and home for birds, animals, insects and (Hint: some are located outside the your family. now—you! A healthy habitat has lots of habitat garden) 2 Find 3 different berries that you might different plants so there is food and shelter 2 Name 3 different kinds of trees that are eat if you were a bird. (Don’t eat them! for all kinds of living things. in this habitat. You’re not a bird!) Write as if you’re bringing predators The goldfinch is the New Jersey state 3 Name 3 different animals that might these berries home. Which bird. Every time you discover it on a sign that live here. could you encounter? means the plant next to it is an important 3 chipmunk 4 How does the holly tree help birds Imagine you’re a . What would part of a wholesome NJ Habitat. survive? be your favorite place in the garden and why? What about if you’re a caterpillar? 5 How can you tell a pin oak by its leaves? A butterfly? Where would you sleep or find water?

Goldfinch

Sheet 2 River Birch Kousa dogwood Holly BETULA NIGRA CLUMPS CORNUS KOUSA ILEX x NELLIE R. STEVENS Found on the banks The reason Dogwood of Streams and Rivers. Holly berries blooms last so long Is are beautiful Birch Bark looks like that the colored peeling Paper. but Poisonous portion is not a to humans. Birch wood is strong but flower petal light, making it ideal for toys Birds love to eat the and artificial limbs. but a “bract” - berries, but only after Native Americans used it to treat a modified colds and stomach problems. leaf. they have been softened by several frosts. “…look for the way things will turn out spiraling From the Hanger Family: from a center…” – Sponsored by the Holtz family 1 Charlie, Becky, Sam, Martin 2 3

White Oak QUERCUS ALBA CRAB APPLE Pin Oak a symbol of American MALUS CARDINAL QUERCUS PALUSTRIS independence: Crab apples Wood from oak trees was used THE BRITISH KING HAD (or Wild Apples) are To build sailing ALLOWED CONNECTICUT TO the ancestors and cousins ships. It took 200 MAKE ITS OWN RULES. WHEN of grocery store apples. oak trees to make a ship that HE WANTED TO TAKE THIS RIGHT could navigate an ocean. AWAY, THE CHARTER DOCUMENT Crab apples are Smaller WAS HIDDEN IN A HOLLOW WHITE Than Cultivated Apples. Next time you’re in Maplecrest OAK AND WAS SAVED. Park, find the old native Pin They are sour and make Oaks there. good cider. Birds and small STATE TREE OF ILLINOIS, For David Swanson, 1929-2014, CONNECTICUT AND MARYLAND 4 mammals love Them. 5 beloved father, nature lover and tree farmer 6

Sheet 3 Pin Oak Holly CRAB APPLE QUERCUS PALUSTRIS ILEX x NELLIE R. STEVENS MALUS Lobes are the hollies have Apple wood bits of the Oak leaf Shiny, spiky is valuable that extend out to each Leaves that stay side from the center of the firewood. it leaf, like pointsIlex x 'Nellie R. Stevens' on a star. on the tree even burns hot and during the winter. Pin Oaks, Scarlet Oaks slow, without AND Red Oaks have pointed Most Hollies grow green much flame, Gives off a lobes, while White OAKS have berries in spring and pleasant scent and rounded lobes. summer that turn red in imparts an excellent In Memory of Mimi Fisher, 1929 - 2015 fall and winter. flavor to smoked foods. A Brooklyn girl who traveled the world 7 8 9

Holly Holly Holly ILEX x NELLIE R. STEVENS ILEX x NELLIE R. STEVENS ILEX x NELLIE R. STEVENS Hollies make Hollies make Excellent Excellent Landscape Hiding places Hiding places Architects like For birds and For birds and to plant Hollies Small mammals. Small mammals. in a Row To create a screen that is green and The leaves provide The leaves provide dense all year round. protection from protection from Hollies are hardy and predators and storms, predators and storms, tolerate pollution. especially in winter. especially in winter. 10 10 11

Sheet 4 Pink Pink Wild black cherry Dogwood Dogwood PRUNUS SEROTINA CORNUS RUBRA CORNUS RUBRA The Black Cherry Dogwood tree branches were Has toothed, In 2012, the United States sent oval leaves. 3,000 dogwood saplings to used by Native Americans and Japan to commemorate the 100 Pioneers as toothbrushes. year anniversary of the Once chewed for a few Wildlife love It. Washington D.C. cherry trees, minutes, the tough fibers at birds feed on given as a gift to the U.S. by the ends of the twigs split Its Fruit, Japan in 1912. into a fine brush. caterpillars In Memory of Dr. Leonard Fisher, 1929 – 2011 . Sponsored by Sofia Kern-Benigno (class of 2018) feast on its foliage. A local boy who done good. . 12 and Silas Kern-Benigno (class of 2021) 13 14

Pin Oak Small, but important White Pine PINUS STROBUS QUERCUS PALUSTRIS Many of the old homes in “No tree has been Take a look at the small Town are built from White more useful to plants in the habitat Pine timber. human beings garden. They provide than the oak…” William Bryant Logan food and hiding places the earliest vessels, tubs for animals throughout the year. AND casks were made from Try to find some of these plants: oak. Vikings used oak for Little bluestem, Wild their ships. Leonardo da Elevation of Vinci drew with oak ink. grasses, Juniper, Dill, Main Entrance Section Fennel, Parsley In honor of Karl Ebinger and his lifelong love In fond Memory of our Avid Gardener, Uncle Nick for nature and teaching. 15 16 -The AnstattClan 17

Sheet 5 discover explore imagine THE WILD WOODLAND HABITAT 1 The 3 bushes planted at the edge of 1 Imagine you are a native american The fenced-in area to the right is called the yard toward Jacoby Street are indian, living in these woods hundreds a woodland habitat because it arrowwood viburnums. of years ago. What would you use to build contains plants found at the edge of a forest. Can you find the older Arrowwoods in your house and how would you build it? Birds love these bushes because they another part of this Habitat Garden? Would you build in sun or shade? Why? offer protection from predators and 2 Which bushes are evergreens and 2 Choose your favorite plant in either harsh weather; some also provide food. why is that important for the animals of the habitat gardens and explain why After planting these bushes who live here? you like it so much. in 2017 we fenced the 3 Which other animals live here 3 If you plant one tree a year for 50 years, area off and left it alone besides birds? (Hint: Look near fallen when they are all grown they will provide to see what nature will branches and tree stumps.) enough oxygen for 100 people! How can do on its own. 4 What do these small organisms eat? you add to our community’s habitat today? Why are they important to the forest? 5 Take a seat on one of the stumps and be absolutely still. Count how many birds you see come in and out of this space and the different bird songs they sing. Sweetgum Leaf

Sheet 6 Sweet Gum Tree habitat Wild black cherry LIQUIDAMBAR STYRACIFLUA shrubs PRUNUS SEROTINA the Sweet Gum’s sap Black cherries are wa s u s e d to m a k e See if you can find these shrubs: edible, but very bitter. the fruit is used as a chewing gum. it is Actually Elderberry - important food flavoring for sodas, quite bitter, but not as bitter source early in the year (late June when ice creams, and as an as that of related trees, thus no other fruits are available). the name ‘sweet’! ingredient OF dark chocolate Viburnum - produces dense cakes. Each capsule of the fruit ball clusters of dark blue fruits in The tree’s timber is valuable. it contains a seed. Birds and September, just in time for migrating takes more than 100 years for small mammals love to eat 18 birds. Birds eat the seeds and drop a cherry tree to be big enough these seeds. Humans use 19 them off along the migration route. to use for timber. them to make flu medicine. 20 21 22

Red Maple Red Maple Red Maple ACER RUBRUM ACER RUBRUM ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ ACER RUBRUM ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ In the winter, you can The Red Maple Identify a maple By Its is easily Identified Buds sitting on Opposite The sides OF the branch. by its famous leaf. Red maple It has Three Large and two only the Maple, ASH and Dogwood trees have is The State Tree smaller leaflets radiating Opposite BUDS. from one point. of Rhode Island. Most other trees have The Maples in this area were alternate BUDS. planted with a gift from the < Graduating Class of 2015. 23 24 25

Sheet 7 discover explore imagine ONCE UPON A TIME... 1 Why is the maple leaf famous? 1 Five hundred years ago, this area was so Thousands of years ago, the field in front of you Can you name some places where thick with trees, that people say a squirrel was covered in ice! Hard to imagine, right? it’s used as a logo or design? could travel from here to the Mississippi without its feet ever touching the ground. As the ice melted, trees started to grow. There 2 How is the pine tree used for Imagine you are a squirrel and can do were all kinds of trees - pine trees like those medicine? that too. Where would you go and why? right next to you, and big oaks like the tall ones 3 Which tree do you think would be 2 you see growing on the edge of the habitat the best to use for canoes and why? The reasons forests disappear is that garden. Slowly people came to live here. Tribes they take so long to grow, and they can 4 How did native americans use of Native Americans called the Lenape lived in be cut down in an afternoon. Today, trees the redbud tree? New Jersey. They got fruits and nuts from trees, are disappearing at an alarming rate. Can 5 and used the wood for canoes and shelter, tools How do we use you name 3 places in the world where juneberry and fishing instruments. the deforestation is happening and why? tree today? Why do you think climate changes when It was all these trees that made lots of trees disappear? Europeans want to come here. In Europe and the Middle East, lots of the old forests were 3 Describe the difference between climate gone, having been used to build houses or ships. and weather. How does one affect the In fact, wood was the most precious resource - other? What are 3 ways we can help ease many wars were fought over it. Red Maple Leaf climate changes and deforestation?

Sheet 8 Juneberry Juneberry Nectar AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS AMELANCHIER CANADENSIS plants The wood of the As an early Bloomer Nectar is the primary food Juneberry is hard the Juneberry is an source for many butterfly species. and heavy. It can be important nectar food Hummingbirds, bees, moths and other polished to make beautiful source for pollinators insects also like to snack on it. wooden handles, walking like bees and butterflies. See if you can find the sticks or fishing rods. Squirrels, chipmunks, New England Aster. Humans can eat Juneberry cardinals, woodpeckers, It blooms with nectar-rich fruit, fresh or dried, orioles, waxwings and flowers in September when cooked for jams, or made robins Love to eat the the monarch butterflies are migrating. into wine. 26 Juneberry fruit. 27 They pollinate the plant as they feed. 28

Butterfly Red Maple Red Maple food plants ACER RUBRUM ACER RUBRUM ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ Each butterfly species lays its eggs on a small group of plant species, so that the hatched caterpillar Maplewood It is Called The “Red Maple” can feed on its leaves. got its name in 1860 because it Has Milkweed is food for from an iconic maple monarch butterflies. red buds in winter, red A garden with milkweeds will tree that stood near flowers in spring, red attract monarchs through the original train twigs in summer and deep August, after which they begin station. red foliage in Fall. to migrate south. 29 30 31

Sheet 9 Redbud Tree Amur White Mulberry CERCIS CANADENSIS maackia MORUS ALBA The Redbud is MAACKIA The White Mulberry the State tree AMURENSIS of Oklahoma. is often grown in This Tree is Native to the Asia as food for It Has beautiful rose-purple flowers early in the spring. border region of China silk worms, the and Russia. It is tough and worms that spin silk. Native Americans enjoyed eating the redbud flowers drought resistant. The Mulberry is notable for raw or boiled, and the seeds Our town arborists have the rapid release of its roasted. planted interesting trees pollen, which is launched As my parents planted for me, so I plant from Faraway places at over half the speed of for my children. Buchanan/Miller Family 32 throughout town. 33 sound. 34

Sheet 10 White Pine White Pine White Pine PINUS STROBUS PINUS STROBUS PINUS STROBUS The White Pine has Pine needle tea The White Pine is the bluish-green is great for largest native needles with fine colds and chest pine in the USA. white lines in congestion. Black bears, rabbits, bundles of Five. squirrels and birds feast The Pine Needles are on its seeds. Birds nest ON Old Pine trees have packed with vitamin C. its long branches. an asymmetric shape They helped keep the early The White Pine is the State that Make it easy to settlers alive in their Tree of Maine and Michigan. identify from a distance. first winter. Planted by the Graduating Class of 2008 35 Planted by the Graduating Class of 2008 36 Planted by the Graduating Class of 2008 37

Plane Tree

PLATANUS X ACERIFOLIA The bark of the plane tree has a distinctive camouflage pattern. patches of green or brown outer bark flake off to expose the cream-colored inner bark beneath. 38

Sheet 11 discover explore imagine DESIGNING NATURE 1 Name 3 aspects of this garden that 1 Imagine you could recreate this school Look around! Most of what you see in this you like the “look” of and explain yard from scratch. What would be important school yard was designed and planted by why you like them. for you as you design this space? people. Do you see the plane trees lined 2 Name 3 aspects you don’t like 2 How would you use natural elements up in a row along the walkway going towards and explain why. such as trees, shrubs or flowers to create the school? Or the three white pines along 3 What’s an easy way to identify something beautiful? Jacoby Street? A landscape architect a hackberry tree? 3 Would you rather design a landscaped thought it would be fun to place the trees this 4 garden, a vegetable garden, a fruit way and to add small hills. Do you like it? Why do you think the landscape architect decided on a line of trees garden or some combination of them all? along the walkway? Explain why. 4 5 What do you think landscape architects How could you use this space to tell a story study in school to know what’s best for and what story would you choose? the earth?

Hackberry Leaf

Sheet 12 Hackberry Plane Tree Plane Tree Tree PLATANUS X ACERIFOLIA PLATANUS X ACERIFOLIA CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS The Plane Tree is The plane tree a hybrid between The Hackberry’s leaves are is one of the most the native American shaped like spearheads. widely planted urban sycamore Tree and The Tree has corky ridges trees. the Eurasian plane and warts on its trunk. tree. It first appeared in It is thought that the Many winter birds eat its London in 1645. logo of the NYC Parks fruit, especially the cedar Department is based on It resists heavy air wa x w i n g , R o b i n a n d the leaf of a plane tree. pollution, and drought. mockingbird. 39 40 41

Hackberry Plane Tree White Pine Tree PLATANUS X ACERIFOLIA PINUS STROBUS CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS “The chestnut's In colonial days, the finest The Hackberry is proud, and the White Pines were praised by tree lilac's pretty, The reserved by the experts as “one poplar's gentle and tall, British king to tough tree.” it grows But the plane tree's kind to build the the poor dull city – masts in Environments I love him best of all.” OF his with A wide variety -Edith Nesbit, 1858-1924 ships. of temperatures, soil Conditions And rainfall. It Dedicated to the memory of Joanne Montilus Tolerates strong winds. “She is clothed with strength and dignity, 42 she laughs without fear of the future.” 43 44

Sheet 13 discover explore imagine MAJESTIC PINES 1 Look up into the branches of a pine. Why 1 If you could choose just one tree in The white pine tree was one of the most do you think it was perfect for ship building? this school yard to have and use as you famous in North America, mostly because the 2 What other animals depend on the pine wanted or needed, which one would British used it for the masts of their ships. besides humans? you choose and why? Ships were very important—they were used 2 bird 3 The pine tree is much lighter than other If you were a , would you choose for war and trading. In fact, pine was trees. How could that be helpful for mast- a different tree, or the same tree? so important that in colonial times anyone squirrel building? How about if you were a ? who cut down a tree more than 24 inches 4 body 3 Besides wood, can you find other materials around (like ours) could be fined thousands Why would it be better to build the denser here that you use every day—like mud, of dollars. of a ship out of wood? water, stones, leaves? How and 5 What makes the pine a good home for Pine trees once grew as tall as a 15-story where do you use them in your life? animals? building, or 4 times taller than Seth How might an animal use them differently? Boyden school! Its trunk often went up 50 ft without a branch. Pine trees also grow quickly. The pines along Jacoby Street were planted in 2008. Look how big they are today!

White Pine Needles

Sheet 14 Tulip Tree Scarlet Hackberry LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA Oak Tree The Tulip Tree is QUERCUS CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS the State Tree of COCCINEA Humans can eat Indiana, Kentucky The Scarlet oak is the the fruit of the and Tennessee. State Tree of Washington, hackberry tree. Native It is the tallest D.C. Americans ate the Berries of the eastern The acorns are an fresh or used Them as hardwood trees. important food source seasoning for meat. Native Americans hollowed for many large song out its trunks to make A great experience and fond memories birds, wild turkeys, of this school I attended. canoes. 45 squirrels and deer. 46 - Walter R. Stuetzel, Class of 1970 47

Pink Dogwood Pink CORNUS RUBRA Dogwood CORNUS RUBRA The As the Dogwood Dogwood Tree is the tree grows, state tree of Its bark Missouri and Virginia. develops a blocky pattern "And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his that looks like alligator favorite ... tree, smelling the flowers just quietly. He is very happy." The Story of Ferdinand, by Munro Leaf skin. With gratitude, Riekenberg Family The Emmons Family loves Seth Boyden Margaret '14 & Sam '17 48 and all of its wonderful teachers! 49

Sheet 15 discover SUNDIALS Sundials are the oldest known clock. They use the sun to tell the time of day or the hour. discover The position of the sun indicates the time of day. As the explore imagine sun moves across the sky a shadow is cast onto the sundial. NATURAL TIMEKEEPING The dial plate or surface of the sundial has a mark for 1 A proverb is a wise saying that gets 1 During the next week, come to this exact gnomon native american proverb each hour of daylight. The or triangular blade casts repeated again and again. Do you have spot at 3 different times of the day and There is a that a shadow to mark the hour. Sundials always point north. any favorite proverbs in your family, in report what has changed using your different says: Pray to understand what man has forgotten. The shadows on a sundial are the longest at sunset and shortest your classroom, or in your head? senses. What does the sky look like in the We like to think of humans as the highest form sunrise and the at noon. early morning? What does it smell like in of life—the only creatures that can talk or Can you guess why? 2 Our sundial is a replica of an early man- the afternoon? reason. But in many ways we are simpler than made instrument. How does it help tell time? gnomon 2 listen the animals and the trees. We need a clock to 3 How could you tell what time of year it was Close your eyes and closely. What tell the time of day, a calendar to tell the time hour markers hour markers just by looking at the tree nearest you? sounds help you know what time of year it is? (morning) (afternoon) of year, and road signs to tell us where to go. 3 4 How can you tell what time of day it is Have you ever heard someone say, “It smells The natural world does these things all by itself. smell by looking at the sky right now? like spring”? What does spring like? Did you know there are some frogs that come What about summer, autumn, or a winter 5 How can you tell what time of day it is to the same place, at the same exact day every snow? dial plate by looking at the sundial? year? And that sea turtles return to the beach where they were born to lay their eggs even if they haven’t been there since birth? And the trees know when to drop their leaves, and when to start growing them again.

Dogwood Leaf

Sheet 16 Pink Dogwood Hackberry Sweetbay CORNUS RUBRA Tree Magnolia When Dogwoods CELTIS OCCIDENTALIS MAGNOLIA VIRGINIANA bloomed, Native Magnolias are the state Americans knew it The Hackberry tree of Mississippi. was time to plant corn. is An important If this tree was planted It meant that winter was source of food for 100 miles farther north, it done, and the growing forest animals. would be deciduous. season had begun! Deer feed on its foliage, In our climate, it is “We can always be chasing the sun while birds and small so fill up your lungs and just run.” mammals eat its fruit. evergreen. -SB for SB &Leo Kraft.Love Dad 50 51 52

Tulip POPLAR Scarlet Oak Zelkova LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA QUERCUS COCCINEA ZELKOVA The Tulip Poplar The Scarlet Oak Blooms in May is named for its parade of The branches and June with red through the seasons. of the Zelkova tulip-shaped The leaves have a red hue in Tree form a nice vase flowers that Spring and turn a vibrant shape. are a nectar source for red in fall. They can hang honey bees. The leaves are on through the first snow, As the tree matures, the giving winter a touch of also tulip shaped. bark peals and exposes much-needed color. Donated by Vanguard. Solving complex orange patches. communication and operational challenges With Love and Wonderful Memories 55 with innovative solutions. 53 Rowen '15, Finn '18, Amy and Mark Goring 54

Sheet 17 Zelkova Zelkova Bradford ZELKOVA ZELKOVA Pear PYRUS CALLERYANA In its native The Zelkova is a cousin to The fruits of the pear tree China and Japan, the American elm, Which is are small and woody. zelkova wood is used to the famous tree lining the They are softened by the build temples. Central Park mall. first frost, after which the zelkova tree can also American elmS are slowly they are readily eaten by dying from A Tree disease. be Grown as a miniature birds, which spread the bonsai tree. Zelkovas Are planted as A seeds in their 56 resistant substitute. 57 droppings. 58A

Bradford Pear Bradford Redbud Tree PYRUS CALLERYANA Pear CERCIS CANADENSIS Pear wood is PYRUS CALLERYANA among the finest- THIS tree in the early textured of all grows spring, fruitwoods. quickly, has showy flowers beautiful flowers Set off a spectacular It is used and grows in a nice shape. for making woodwind show of pink fireworks instruments, such as Unfortunately, it has on bare twigs of the Recorders, Clarinets, weak branches and redbud tree. or Oboes. 58B BREAKS EASILY. 58C 59

Sheet 18 SUGAR MAPLE Traditional Apple ACER SACCHARUM MALUS The sugar maple Most apple is one of America’s varieties have small best-loved trees. Its sap is and tart fruits. used to make maple syrup. in the old days, apples IT is the state tree of were used to make cider. New York, West Virginia, since safe drinking water Wisconsin and Vermont. was rare, cider was its leaf is on the commonly served, Canadian flag. 60 even to children. 61

Sheet 19 discover viticulture in New jersey Did you know that New Jersey is home to three wine regions? At Seth Boyden, we grow different grape discover varieties that we harvest in September and October. explore imagine The catawba grape is purplish-red. During HUNTERS, GATHERERS AND FARMERS the early years after American independence, 1 Which vegetables from this garden do 1 The Native Americans grew crops together. Catawba was the most widely planted variety Humans like us have been around for about in America. Catawba grapes have a spicy flavor you eat regularly? The most famous is the three sisters 200,000 years. The first people here were and are used to make sparkling fruit juices and 2 animals enjoy crops—corn, squash and bean plants. Why rose wines. Which do you think the what we call “hunters and gatherers.” They ate do you think it’s a good idea to grow them concord grapes are blue-black and are vegetables and fruits here (besides us)? the seeds and fruit they found around them. together? (Hint: think about the way they very flavorful. They have become the best 3 What do you think “farm to table” means? Then—around 10,000 or 15,000 years ago—they known and most common American grapes. grow—up, around, straight or vine-like). They are used to make grape jelly, juice, and 4 How many different food groups can began to use the land in a different way. They grape-flavored soft drinks. 2 There are all kinds of gardens, from large you find in this garden? cut down trees, dug in the dirt and began to The swenson white grape makes white fields to a pot on a window ledge. If you had grow food. When the europeans arrived grape juice even though its fruits are green. 5 seth boyden himself developed a all the space you wanted to plant a garden, It has berries with a rich floral aroma. It is used hybrid here, they were surprised and impressed with for ice wine. strawberry. Find out 3 facts what would you plant and why? all the foods native americans knew how about how he did this. Can you find the The norton grape is also blue-black. 3 The Native Americans understood that if to farm—potatoes, corn, squash and beans. It ripens very late in the fall. When fully ripe, strawberries in the garden? wild plant Norton grapes have a strong and distinct aroma. they took a and gave it food, care and love, the plant would help them in return. They did this with animals too. Can you think of a living being you care for and explain why and how you do it?

Grape Leaf

Sheet 20 Apple tree Apple tree Apple Tree Growing Apples: PART 3 Growing Apples: PART 1 Growing EVERY MCINTOSH APPLE TREE TREES GROWN FROM THE SEED Apples: PART 2 IS A GRAFT OF THE ORIGINAL OF SWEET–TASTING APPLES WILL IT IS RARE FOR NATURE NOT PRODUCE THE SAME APPLES. TO PRODUCE A TREE THAT JOHN MCINTOSH SWEET–TASTING APPLE. DISCOVERED ON HIS ONTARIO INSTEAD, THEIR APPLES WILL FARM IN 1811. LIKELY BE SMALL AND SOUR. ONCE SUCH AN APPLE TREE IS FOUND, IT IS MULTIPLIED BY EVERY GRANNY SMITH APPLE QUALITIES LIKE SWEETNESS OR TAKING THE SHOOTS OF THE TREE STEMS FROM THE SEEDLING SIZE REQUIRE VERY UNUSUAL AND “GRAFTING” THEM ONTO THE SPOTTED BY MARIA ANN SMITH GENES THAT MOST APPLE “ROOTSTOCK” OF IN HER AUSTRALIAN TREES DON’T HAVE. 62A ANOTHER APPLE TREE. 62b COMPOST PILE IN 1868. 62c

peach Tree Kentucky coffeetree PRUNUS PERSICA GYMNOCLADUS DIOICUS Native Americans Peach trees have used the seeds of Beautiful spring this tree as Dice. blossoms and Their Fruit is They also roasted Delicious and healthy. them for hot the Peach tree borer Beverages similar is a pest that lives in to coffee. this tree. You can Early pioneers liked the see sap dripping out drink and named the of the borer’s tunnels. 63 tree for it. 64

Sheet 21 discover explore imagine THE APPLE—A WORLD TRAVELER 1 How do you think apple trees were 1 This yard was once part of a large farm, Apple trees like these were brought to the brought to America? with orchards of peach and apple picture Americas by Europeans. The only apple trees 2 Can you think of any legends or trees nearby. Can you what that are native to us are the crab apple proverbs about apples? it might have looked like? How would trees that grow in the Habitat Garden. Their the air have smelled different? What 3 Compare one of these apples to a crab fruit is sour and hard to eat. sounds might you hear? apple and name 5 differences by 2 Apple trees originally grew in central asia, looking, feeling and smelling them. One of the fruit trees in this courtyard and were brought to europe more than 2,000 is not an apple tree, but a pear tree. 4 The apple tree is in the rose family. years ago by alexander the great—one of Can you find it? How is it different from Name 3 similarities between an apple ancient history’s most famous rulers. the apple tree? How is it the same? and a rose. Once apples trees got to america, they 3 Remember that Seth Boyden lived in 5 How can you tell if an apple is ripe? quickly became an important crop for colonists. a house right next to where the school Are there any animals that eat the apple The area around South Mountain (where the is now. He grew strawberries. If you while it is still on the tree? reservation is today) once made the country’s could grow only one fruit, what would finest apple cider. Even George Washington you choose and why? loved it!

Apple Leaf

Sheet 22 Golden Delicious Granny Smith Golden Delicious Apple Tree Apple Tree Apple Tree

MALUS X 'GOLDEN DELICIOUS' MALUS X M. SYLVESTRIS MALUS X 'GOLDEN DELICIOUS' The golden delicious Granny smith “An apple a day keeps apple is the state fruit of apples are sweet the doctor away”. West Virginia. The first and crisp to eat golden delicious tree was once they are ripe. Golden delicious found on a farm in West apples are sweet They are also perfect for Virginia and All Golden and perfect for cooking and baking. Delicious Trees are clones eating Fresh off the from that tree. 65 66 tree. 67

PEAR TREE Crepe myrtle JuneBerry PYRUS LAGERSTROEMIA AMELANCHIER The Crepe Myrtle Has CANADENSIS beautiful flower In ancient Greece, clusters with The fruit of pears were lauded wrinkled petals THE Juneberry as the “gift of the gods”. similar to crepe paper. are Good to it blooms all summer. eat raw, tasting Once ripe, They will melt A Bit like a in your mouth and have a In its native India, Crepe blueberry, accented wonderful aromatic Myrtles are appreciated by the almond-like flavor flavor. for their medicinal of the seeds. 68 properties. 69 69A

Sheet 23 Red Maple Plane Tree Red Maple ACER RUBRUM PLATANUS x ACERIFOLIA ACER RUBRUM ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ Green is the The leaves plane tree in the square, of the Red The other trees are brown; Maple trees Maple have They droop and pine for country air; produce winged a lustrous The plane tree loves the town. seeds which move like a dark green color until -AMY LEVY 1861 -1889 helicopter when they fall late fall, when they blaze from the trees. orange and red.

In memory of William Bratt "Always Do Your Best" and Bill Emmons. 70 71 - Tree sponsored by the Rails Company 72

Pink Pink Pink Dogwood Dogwood Dogwood CORNUS RUBRA CORNUS RUBRA CORNUS RUBRA The roots of the dogwood The wood of the The Wood of the are used to make dyes. dogwood is hard and dogwood tree is used strong. Some Botanists say Different species of for golf club heads, the name “dogwood” dogwood Can produce weaving shuttles, comes from “dagwood” – red, black and yellow. Archery bows, wood that is strong The Spanier family remembers Rivka and xylophone mallets enough to make Itzhak Avira and their love of trees. And pulleys. daggers. 73 74 75

Sheet 24 discover explore imagine THE GIVING TREES 1 Think of all the uses for trees you’ve 1 Imagine you are going to build some- There are more uses for trees than you can discovered as you’ve walked through thing using trees. what would you build, probably ever imagine. The earliest European the arboretum. What is your favorite and why? settlers came to this land with very simple use and why? 2 Imagine building a house. How would tools. They cut down trees and stacked the 2 How many objects have you used you keep the sides up? How about pieces one on top of the other, put some mud already today that come in part from a the roof? between and the log cabin was born! tree? (This post included!) 3 What are some ways we can care for Wood was also used to make ships, 3 Do you know any proverbs about trees? the trees in this yard? In the world? instruments, machines, furniture, canoes, 4 Besides all of these uses, how do trees toothbrushes and paper. Sugar maple trees help us live? were tapped for maple syrup. Pine pitch 5 was used to make ships watertight. A How do you think all these uses for trees forests chemical in the bark of hemlocks and oaks was affects the in America? used to soften animal skins into leather. Native Americans and early settlers used parts of trees for medicine—which we still do today.

Scarlet Oak

Sheet 25 Red Maple Pink Dogwood ACER RUBRUM ‘OCTOBER GLORY’ CORNUS RUBRA The Wood of the maple The Dogwood tree is used For the produces a production of musical red fruit that instruments ripens in the fall. The Fruit is edible, but it Like does not taste good to guitars, humans. violins small mammals and birds And drums. love the Dogwood’s fruit. 76 77

Sheet 26 discover explore imagine THE MARVELS OF TREES 1 Can you think of 3 different ways 1 Many of the trees in this area were not It’s hard to know exactly which trees were that seeds can be planted besides planted by humans, but by birds or the here before humans. Trees, unlike animals, by humans? wind. How does a bird plant a tree? How don’t have bones, so they don’t leave many 2 Which is the tallest tree in the about the wind? fossils. Sometimes scientists have found old arboretum? 2 Think about the seeds of trees. look mudslides that have hardened to stone 3 Which is the biggest? around you and see if you can find 3 and they have dried leaves in them. By studying different seed pods. How do the seed 4 Which is the oldest and these stones, we can learn a bit about the pods help the tree spread its seeds? history of trees—but not much. how can you tell? 3 Think of things humans have made that 5 How could a dried What we do know is that as far as we can tell this look like seed pods. Do they have a leaf in stone continent is home to the world’s biggest tree similar use? (Hint: Think about things that tell us about the (the giant sequoia), the world’s tallest fly through the air, or things that are earth’s past? tree (the redwood), and the world’s oldest made to protect something valuable). tree (the bristlecone pine).

White Oak

Sheet 27 Eastern black cherry black Red Cedar PRUNUS SEROTINA cherry JUNIPERUS VIRGINIANA The black cherry PRUNUS Times its fruiting to coincide SEROTINA This Evergreen tree with Bird migration. provides food and Black cherry wood has a shelter for Birds In return for their meal, birds distribute the plants' rich reddish-brown color and Butterflies. seeds in Their Droppings and is very sturdy. It produces berries along their migration route. It is one of the most valued which linger into winter If left to nature, This tree cabinet and furniture and sustain The birds that would grow all over the woods in North winter in our area. 78 school yard. 79 America. 80

Lobe ornamental Cherry SILVER Maple Sinus SILVER Maple PRUNUS ACER SACCHARINUM ACER SACCHARINUM SERRULATA Silver Maple The Silver leaves are known maple is a for their deep-cut Sinuses and pointy lobes. fast-Growing In 1912, japan gave 3,000 Tree. trees to Washington, d.c. With even a light wind, As a gesture of friendship. the Silver Maple shimmers Its plentiful wood this is celebrated every thanks to the silvery is used in carpentry, April with a Cherry undersides of its Paper production, Blossom Festival. 81 leaves. 82 and for biofuels. 83

Sheet 28 SILVER Maple ACER SACCHARINUM The silver maple loves to grow in swamps and along rivers. Is Also known as Swamp Maple. 84

Sheet 29 discover explore imagine THE BEAUTY OF TREES 1 Can you pick out 3 types of trees here 1 Write a poem about your favorite tree Stop and take a breath. Look around. The that you learned about in the backyard? and describe why you appreciate it. front yard feels different than the back 2 How can you tell that these trees are 2 What does it mean to you that a tree yard, even though it’s got many of the same older? you plant today will hopefully be here trees. What’s the difference? These trees generations 3 Name 3 books you know that mention for after you? Who do got a 30-year head start! trees. you think was here when one of these These trees were planted as an arboretum older trees was planted? 4 Why do you think people talk about their many years ago, thanks to a gift from a Seth 3 lineage as a “family tree”? If you were part of a tree, would you Boyden graduate who loved trees. Lots of rather be the roots, the trunk, 5 What is your favorite type of tree in the people love trees—not just for all the things the branches, the leaves, or the arboretum and why? they give us—but also because they’re so bark? Why? beautiful. America supplied England with ships full of timber, but colonists also sent tens of thousands of living trees across the ocean. The English loved to plant our trees in their gardens. All over the world trees are celebrated in poems, books and songs. Tulip Tree Leaf

Sheet 30 Willow Oak DUNSTAN CHESTNUT Willow Oak

QUERCUS PHELLOS CASTANEA DENTATA X MOLLISSIMA QUERCUS PHELLOS Once Very The willow oak Even though its leaves common, was the favorite don’t look like oak leaves, almost all tree of the third President, This north American tree American chestnut Trees Thomas Jefferson, who belongs to the oak family. were killed in the early loved and studied trees. Its Wood has been used 1900s by the Chestnut since pioneering days for He distributed seeds of blight. This hybrid furniture, wagon axles, American trees while he chestnut is resistant and railings, or barrels. served as minister in produces edible, France. 85 delicious chestnuts. 86 Animals love its acorns. 87

Crab apple White Pine Kentucky yellowwood PINUS STROBUS CLADRASTIS KENTUKEA The crab apple is After a terrible the only apple war, five Iroquois The yellowwood native to North America. nations got is Found on the limestone cliffs The European Pioneers together to make didn’t like the tart fruit, peace. They chose of Kentucky and so The settlers of the white pine as Known for the Jamestown brought “the tree of Peace.” Yellow color Of its wood. European apple tree As the tallest of all cuttings when they pine trees it is a visible founded their colony. 88 reminder from afar. 89 90

Sheet 31 Tulip TREE Tulip TREE America LIRIODENDRON TULIPIFERA LIRIODENDRON Holly TULIPIFERA ILEX OPACA

In Tennessee, Early North American The American holly was the Tulip Tree is sometimes explorers were impressed said to be a favorite tree of called canoe wood with the size of the tulip George Washington. because Native Americans trees discovered in the more than a dozen hollies and early settlers carved New World and used the he planted are still Evident canoes from its light, long, straight logs to today, some at his home in buoyant trunks. 91 build cabins. 92 mount Vernon, VA. 93

American American GOLDENRAIN TREE Holly Holly KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA Thomas Jefferson ILEX OPACA ILEX OPACA Was the first Since ancient person to grow times, the holly The American a Goldenrain tree has been symbolizing Holly is the STATE TREE OF in America, using peace and joy. DELAWARE. seeds sent from France. According to English There it can grow to 60 IN THE FALL AND WINTER, lore, arguments can be feet in height with a trunk the tree HAS graceful settled more quickly diameter of 20 inches. lanterns dangling under a holly tree. 94 95 from ITS branches. 96

Sheet 32 American KOUSA SAUCER magnolia Holly dogwood MAGNOLIA x SOULANGEANA ILEX OPACA CORNUS KOUSA The Saucer The foliage Magnolia is of the American holly The kousa dogwood is Admired for provides cover for NATIVE TO Japan, china and its Spring songbirds and mammals, Korea. flowers that and after frost settles in, It flowers a month later bloom in shades the fruit becomes food than the American of purple, white, for them. dogwood. magenta, pink and To humans, the berries burgundy. are Poisonous. 97 98 99

Black Locust ROBINIA PSEUDOACACIA

The Black locust has large and intensely fragrant Flowers In the early summer.

It is a major honey plant in the eastern UNITED STATES. 100

Sheet 33 discover explore imagine THE AGE OF TREES 1 Who is the oldest person you know and 1 The UN Pin Oak is symbolic in many Trees live much longer than anything else on when was s/he born? ways. Can you describe what it means earth. The oldest tree ever grew on top of 2 Why do you think trees can live so long? to you? a windy mountain in Nevada and was 5,000 2 3 If the tree on Ridgewood Road was 100 Can you think of other trees that years old—older than the pyramids—when it represent when washington rode past, how old things? Think about the was chopped down. A black walnut tree is it now? name of this town, for instance. Can still growing on Ridgewood Road was already you think of other names or symbols 4 How can you tell that a tree is getting more than 100 years old when george that are related to trees? older washington rode past it. He is said to have ? 3 Imagine that you are a tree that has lived tied his horse to it. 5 Think about a tree 400 years right here. What do you think you have played Trees tie us to the earth and to each other. you would have seen? What do you think on or near in The Oak tree to your left was planted in 1955 would surprise you most about today? life to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the your —how united nations. It’s a perfect tree to has it been there represent the United Nations because oaks for you? grow more places on earth than any other tree, and were instrumental in helping build all great civilizations. Pin Oak Leaf

Sheet 34 Pin oak Silver Bell Sourwood QUERCUS PALUSTRIS HALESIA CAROLINA OXYDENDRUM ARBOREUM Silver Bell trees Honey are loved due to Oak Trees grow produced their “sheer IN more places than any from the flowers elegance, their other variety of tree on of THE Sourwood dainty nodding flowers earth. tree is very aromatic. and the sheer number of The Oak tree is a perfect them, Followed by IT is considered tree to Celebrate the pretty winged fruits — one of the finest ideals of the United simply awesome!” honeys. Nations. 101 - Robert Player 102 103

American American White Pine red Maple red Maple PINUS STROBUS ACER RUBRUM ACER RUBRUM White pines need The red maple at least 5 hours is considered a of sunlight per day. The Red maple “pioneer species” - is the most it can grow on A it IS amazing to see abundant native disturbed Site to start a what this white pine tree in eastern North new forest, for example did to find its place in America. 104 after a Forest fire. 105 the sun ! 106

Sheet 35 Bradford Pear Bradford Pear Black Cherry PYRUS PYRUS CALLERYANA PRUNUS SEROTINA CALLERYANA The Bradford Pear was thought This ornamental not to produce Pear tree has Beautiful seeds when it was The fruit flowers In the spring. introduced here in 1960. of the black cherry It was a popular to everybody’s surprise it tree is edible, but very neighborhood tree did, and it started TO sour. It is good for SPREAD Quickly, becoming during the 1960s making jam and an invasive species. and 1970s. 107 108 cherry pie. 109

Oriental Northern Red oak Dawn redwood spruce QUERCUS RUBRA METASEQUOIA GLYPTOSTROBOIDES PICEA ORIENTALIS The red oak can When dinosaurs live up to 500 years. The Oriental roamed the earth, spruce Features It Is the State Tree Redwood trees were very lustrous dark Of New Jersey. abundant. green needles Its wood is widely used This redwood Was known that maintain a for hardwood flooring, only as a fossil until 1941, rich, green color interior trim, furniture, when it was discovered Through the winter. cabinetry, veneer and growing in a remote 110 other applications. 111 valley in China. 112

Sheet 36 Black Walnut American American Sycamore JUGLANS NIGRA Sycamore PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS The black walnuts PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS The are delicious and healthy Sycamore for humans. Legend has it has broad, th The leaves and roots of that in the 18 Century flat leaves. a Shenandoah Valley the Black walnut tree are They are the Poisonous to other settler named Joseph Hampton lived in a hollow largest leaves of any plants, to fend off tree native to North Competitors In its sycamore Tree with his America. rooting zone. 113 two sons. 114 115

American American Sycamore Sycamore PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS PLATANUS OCCIDENTALIS Because they The bark of a live so long, sycamore during the 17th flakes off in big and 18th century, chunks, giving the trunk a sycamores were sometimes patchwork look with planted for newlyweds as spots of greenish-white, "bride and groom" trees. gray and brown. 116 117

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Arboretum Scavenger Hunts

Included here are three worksheets for kids to explore the arboretum through a scavenger hunt. Along with the worksheets, hand out the garden map on the last page. The numbers on the worksheets correspond to the numbers on the map and show where the trees are located on the school yard.

If you develop your own scavenger hunt worksheets, please forward them to the PTA web administrator, so that they can be placed on the arboretum website and become accessible to a larger audience. Did you know that every State has a State Tree? This Arboretum features the State Tree of 20 States!

How many of the 20 state trees can you find?

Find the tree by its number using the map on the next page. Follow the trail to find the marker stone by the tree. Each marker has the tree’s number, its name and a fun fact. Note: Some of the trees are linked to two or three states.

Tree # Tree Name State

#4 ______White Oak ______

#25 ______

#32 ______Oklahoma ______

#37 ______

#45 ______

#46 ______

#48 ______

#52 ______Sweetbay Magnolia______

#60 ______

#65 ______

#95 ______

#111 ______New Jersey ______

Fun Facts about Trees Trees are used in many ways.

Find the markers for the trees listed below. Read the facts on the tree markers. Pick your four favorites and describe what you find interesting and fun about the tree.

If you like delicious food… read about these trees: 9 18 22 26 36 60 61 103 109

If you are interested in engineering and woodworking, check these trees out: 15 17 44 56 75 80 91 92

If you like music … well, you will admire these trees: 58B 75 76

I bet you will never guess what makes these trees so special: 34 62A+B+C 64 65 106 112

Tree # and Tree Name Used for… I like this tree, because…

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Hunt for Peace Trees have helped humans to find and celebrate peace.

Find out how trees have played a role in seeking and celebrating peace. Read the listed tree markers and story placards. Write a brief sentence about what you are finding.

Protecting our constitution

#4 ______

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Two countries exchange something special

#12 and #81 ______

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An emissary brings gifts

#85 ______

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An old symbol of peace

#89 ______

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Settling arguments

#94 ______

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Building civilizations

#101 + Station M ______

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Seth Boyden Children’s Arboretum 274 Boyden Avenue Maplewood, NJ 07040

The Arboretum is open to visitors after school hours, on weekends and holidays.