Tyler Arboretum: The Painter Collection (9/1/2019)

Sunday, September 1, 2019 (continued)
In 1681, Thomas Minshall was one of the first to purchase property from William Penn. Later descendants of Minshall, brothers Jacob and Minshall Painter, were fascinated with natural history. In 1825 they set aside a portion of the property for systematic planting of over 1,000 varieties of trees and shrubs. After eight generations of the family descended from Thomas Minshall, the estate was bequeathed to a board of trustees established to administer the land as an arboretum, named for the last of the family, Laura Tyler.

Painter Greenhouse (1871, as a grapery for the forcing of grapevines)

Stewartia pseudocamellia/Japanese Stewartia (KSS)

The Pond with two turtles

In this photo are three of the original trees/shrubs planted by the
Painter brothers: Far L is Pyrus communis/Common Pear, tree to R
is Tilia americana/American Linden, and the shrubbery
to the R is Aesculus parviflora/Bottlebrush Buckeye

Another Painter Legacy tree is the Magnolia fraseri/
Fraser Magnolia (with dark trunk and foliage)

Painter Legacy: Aesculus flava/Yellow Buckeye

Not a Painter Legacy: Magnolia 'Galaxy'/a Hybrid Magnolia

The Hybrid Magnolia has aerial roots

Basking Circle

Coreopsis tripteris/Tall Tickseed

Painter Legacy: Sequioadendron giganteum/
Giant Sequoia (KSS)

The Giant Sequoia had a lightning rod cable (KSS)

Approaching the Pinetum, a collection of conifers or cone-bearing plants,
developed by the first director of Tyler Arboretum, Dr John C Wister

Two butterflies on Vernonia noveboracensis/
New York Ironweed (KSS)

Sign on the meadow pathway (KSS)

Painter Legacy: Liquidambar styraciflua/Sweetgum

Painter Legacy: Picea orientalis/Oriental Spruce,
a Pennsylvania State Champion tree

Painter Legacy: Pinus nigra ssp laricio/Corsican Pine

Painter Legacy: Cedrus libani/Cedar of Lebanon;
a Pennsylvania State Champion tree

Painter Legacy: Mahonia bealei/Leatherleaf Mahonia

Springhouse was used by the Painter
brothers to make butter and store dairy products

Painter Legacy: Maclura pomifera/Osage Orange, which was blown
down by a hurricane in 1954, has a rot-resistant trunk

Painter Legacy: the center tree is a Magnolia
acuminata/Cucumber Magnolia

Painter Legacy: The 2nd of 4 large trunk (whitish) is a
Taxodium distichum/Bald Cypress, and the 4th of 4, the
largest trunk is another Liquidambar styraciflua/Sweetgum

Painter Legacy: Between the Bald Cypress and
Sweetgum is a Betula nigra/River Birch

Painter Legacy: Arundinaria gigantea ssp. tecta/Switchcane Bamboo,
the only bamboo native to the United States

Fruit Vault (1958, as a root cellar,
but also was used to store apples)

Painter Library (1863) has fireproof vaults; used to house a collection of
books, manuscripts, documents, deeds, letters and government publications;
most of the material is now housed in the
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Lachford Hall (1738, with a transformation from farmhouse
to "Country Villa" style in the late 1880s)

Bank Barn (1833-1834, extensive renovation in 2016
to make it an event venue)

We shall be back!