King Fountain & CroQuet Lawn Areas

fertilization, pest control, or cabling, etc., basically remedial work to maximize health and life span. This category includes trees at full maturity as well as younger ones.

other serious condition. Requires short-terni remedial work to avoid premature death, storm damage or dead wood removal, major pruning, pest control, cabling, etc., to regain good health or lengthen life-span.

intensive care, but remedial work will not reverse damage and loss is imminent, removal should be contemplated. In a few cases standing dead trees were listed in this category as well as those in obvious poor health.

In the case of shrubs and shrub masses, two categories were shown to indicate good or fair to poor conditions. None of the shrubs were found to be in excellent health. In several cases their condition was judged as poor due to invasive vine cover or volunteer tree growth within the shrub mass. This condition was prevalent. In other cases shrubs had been renewed through a pruning of larger or older wood and were in good condition. Nearly all the shrubs in these tow areas are remnants from old plantings rather than recent additions.

The caliper dimension of each tree was recorded, this is a measurement of the trees diameter at chest height (approximately 5” above grade). Such a measurement is indicative, to a degree, of the age of the tree, for example a 30” tree may be over fifty years old and in some species and growing conditions could even be a century old. .The caliper size and stature of the trees in the park was recorded in the field work with a determination of the probable historic trees. These trees would likely date to the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. They are noted in the plant key on the Existing Conditions Plan and are shown separate from later plantings on a portion of the Analysis Plan.

This plan shows all the existing vegetation in the King Fountain and Croquet Lawn areas. It graphically illustrates the information collected on site. The relative location of trees and shrubs reflect actual positions on site and are as accurate as possible, in the absence of detailed survey data. The diameter of the tree canopy drawn relates to the size of the tree with larger canopies denoting larger and older trees. Tree trunk diameters are also drawn in three different sizes, illustrating the caliper dimension of the tree with larger trunks illustrating older and larger trees. Mul±tem trees are also illustrated. Flowering and evergreen trees are indicated with an interior canopy line to distinguish these from deciduous shade trees. Tree genus and species are indicated by letters signifying the common name written generally to the right of each tree. This letter code is cross referenced to the listing on the left side of the plan with common and botanical names listed. Shrub masses and individual shrubs are illustrated to scale, and given a single letter code which is also noted in the listing by common and botanical name. The tree canopies are drawn in four pen widths which reflect the condition of each tree; the darker lines denoting those trees in poorer condition and the lighter denoting those in good and excellent conditions. Comparison to the Trees by Condition heading in the legend allows for individual tree conditions to be read.