{"id":6372,"date":"2023-05-30T16:06:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T23:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/?post_type=book&p=6372"},"modified":"2024-02-09T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T19:10:30","slug":"arboretum","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/hortlib\/book\/arboretum\/","title":{"rendered":"Arboretum"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cArboretum\u201d is a new book this spring in the \u201cWelcome to the Museum\u201d series from Big Picture Press.\u00a0 The Miller Library has three titles in this series, all illustrated by Katie Scott, collaborating with different text authors.<\/p>\n

These books are huge!\u00a0 Fifteen inches tall by eleven inches wide and are wonderful for reading both silently and aloud to others.\u00a0 Tony Kirkham, former Head of Arboretum, Gardens & Horticulture Services of the Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, wrote the text and his wonderment for the vast varieties of trees (over 58,000 species) is very clear.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt this time of unprecedented change for our planet, it could not be more important to learn how to live alongside these giants.\u00a0 We cannot protect the natural world until we understand it.\u201d\u00a0 To help with this understanding, Kirkham\u2019s descriptions typically fill the left page, while Scott\u2019s illustrations fill the right.<\/p>\n

This book is about the global arboretum, including tropical species from both moist and dry forests that sadly wouldn\u2019t survive in the Washington Park Arboretum.\u00a0 But our native trees are represented in a two-page spread featuring the Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii<\/em>), including a drawing of \u201cBig Lonely Doug\u201d, a 230-foot-tall survivor of clear-cutting on Vancouver Island.\u00a0 Scott shows the misshaped branches and the enormous (12 feet in diameter), limbless trunk with close-ups of the cones, needles, and even a cross-section of the trunk.<\/p>\n

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Excerpted from Brian Thompson’s article in the Summer 2023 issue of the Arboretum Bulletin<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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