Dendrology 101 LbNA #18365 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Oct 1, 2005 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Princeton |
| County: | Mercer |
| State: | New Jersey |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | sourdough  |
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| Found by: | CEOmeeting |
| Last found: | Aug 6, 2008 |
| Status: | OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaaaaa |
| Last edited: | Oct 1, 2005 |
4/26/08 -- The box has been replaced!
This letterbox is located in Marquand Park, an arboretum in Princeton, NJ. Many of the trees bear nameplates with both latin and common names, so the clues are not difficult. It’s an easy quarter-mile walk and especially lovely in autumn when the leaves turn. Box contains a hand-carved stamp.
Directions: Parking lot is located on Lover’s Lane, which intersects Route 206 just south of the traffic light at Elm Road in Princeton. It’s a left turn if you are traveling from the north and a right turn if you are traveling from the south. Parking lot about 200yds from the turn, on the left.
Enter the park through the gate at the end of the parking lot. Take the asphalt footpath to your right and continue past the enormous trunk cross-section.
After the kiosk, bear right toward the wisteria arbor. Walk along the path until you reach Picea Engelmanni, then bear left on to a gravel path. When the gravel path turns again to asphalt, follow the path downhill and past a stone cavern -- the type a bear or Deere might hibernate in.
Continue down this shady lane and pass between a pair of graffiti’d Fagus grandifolia. Immediately before Quercus rubrum, make a left turn and walk 40 paces along the grassy rise at the edge of the woods.
Turn left on to a new gravel path and follow it around the bend. What you seek is nestled inside Metasequoia glyptostroboides, directly beneath the nameplate.
Important! This site gets very, very wet. I've seen the box completely submerged on a rainy day! So please take care to seal everything up after you've finished. Thanks!
Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a deciduous conifer with bright green to bluish-green leaves which turn a rich orange brown before dropping in the fall. This is an ancient species that had been thought to be extinct until a living tree was found in China in 1945. Seeds from that tree were sent to the Arnold Arboretum and distributed worldwide. James Clark, Princeton University horticulturist, nurtured one of these seeds to produce this tree, which was planted here in 1955.
This letterbox is located in Marquand Park, an arboretum in Princeton, NJ. Many of the trees bear nameplates with both latin and common names, so the clues are not difficult. It’s an easy quarter-mile walk and especially lovely in autumn when the leaves turn. Box contains a hand-carved stamp.
Directions: Parking lot is located on Lover’s Lane, which intersects Route 206 just south of the traffic light at Elm Road in Princeton. It’s a left turn if you are traveling from the north and a right turn if you are traveling from the south. Parking lot about 200yds from the turn, on the left.
Enter the park through the gate at the end of the parking lot. Take the asphalt footpath to your right and continue past the enormous trunk cross-section.
After the kiosk, bear right toward the wisteria arbor. Walk along the path until you reach Picea Engelmanni, then bear left on to a gravel path. When the gravel path turns again to asphalt, follow the path downhill and past a stone cavern -- the type a bear or Deere might hibernate in.
Continue down this shady lane and pass between a pair of graffiti’d Fagus grandifolia. Immediately before Quercus rubrum, make a left turn and walk 40 paces along the grassy rise at the edge of the woods.
Turn left on to a new gravel path and follow it around the bend. What you seek is nestled inside Metasequoia glyptostroboides, directly beneath the nameplate.
Important! This site gets very, very wet. I've seen the box completely submerged on a rainy day! So please take care to seal everything up after you've finished. Thanks!
Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a deciduous conifer with bright green to bluish-green leaves which turn a rich orange brown before dropping in the fall. This is an ancient species that had been thought to be extinct until a living tree was found in China in 1945. Seeds from that tree were sent to the Arnold Arboretum and distributed worldwide. James Clark, Princeton University horticulturist, nurtured one of these seeds to produce this tree, which was planted here in 1955.