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Central Park: Wildflowers

Drawn by Joseph LoGuirato

Tulip tree, asters, black locust, yellow wood, chokeberry, dandelion, daisy, chicory, star of Bethlehem, violets, lily of the valley, redbud, silver bell tree, flowering dogwood.

Joseph LoGuiarto is a graphic artist and painter who creates watercolors, acrylics, pen and ink drawings, and etchings. His work has been on exhibit at Lincoln Center, Queens College, and in a number of private collections. Among his most notable works are several etchings including "Armadillo," "The Skull," and "The Confrontation." He holds a B.A. in fine arts from Queens College, and belongs to the Bitten Image, an arts group specializing in printmaking processes such as etching and lithography. He and his wife, Stella, have one son, Christopher, and live in College Point, Queens.

This poster is published for the benefit of the Marianne Moore Remembrance Fund. The fund is used for tree care in Central Park and Prospect Park.



Sour Gum in the Ramble

Drawn by Dan Gibbons

"The trees eastward are combined harmoniously and distinctively in groups, the lighter colored, such as the silver Abele (Populus argentea), the silver-leaved maple (Acer dasycarpum), the Locust (Robinia), and the three-thorned Acacia (Gleditschia), are placed the farthest distant, and the darker colored species of Maples (Acer saecharinum and pseudoplatanus), Tulip-trees (Li riodendron), Hickories (Carya), Ash-trees (Fraxinus), Lindens (Tilia), Elnis (Ulmus), and so forth, are placed nearer the Avenue, so that, looking to the east, the extent of the gradually scattered trees into the extended lawn is apparently increased, giving the observer the impression of the 'Beautiful'. . . .

"Looking the other way, say from the "Centre Drive," the scenery although quite different will not be less pleasing to the observer, the evergreen planting not only concealing the boundary and all west of it, but by its distance giving a softening indistinct background." -- Ignaz Anton Pilat, 1862, quoted in The Men Who Made Prospect Park (Greensward Foundation, 1982)



Tulip Tree: Central Park

"The trees eastward are combined harmoniously and distinctively in groups, the lighter colored, such as the silver Abele (Populus argentea), the silver-leaved maple (Acer dasycarpum), the Locust (Robinia), and the three-thorned Acacia (Gleditschia), are placed the farthest distant, and the darker colored species of Maples (Acer saecharinum and pseudoplatanus), Tulip-trees (Li riodendron), Hickories (Carya), Ash-trees (Fraxinus), Lindens (Tilia), Elnis (Ulmus), and so forth, are placed nearer the Avenue, so that, looking to the east, the extent of the gradually scattered trees into the extended lawn is apparently increased, giving the observer the impression of the 'Beautiful'. . . .

"Looking the other way, say from the "Centre Drive," the scenery although quite different will not be less pleasing to the observer, the evergreen planting not only concealing the boundary and all west of it, but by its distance giving a softening indistinct background." -- Ignaz Anton Pilat, 1862, quoted in The Men Who Made Prospect Park (Greensward Foundation, 1982)


Bridges of Central Park

Drawn by Ronald Rife

"Eaglevale Bridge carries an access road to the West Drive from Central Park West over the bridle path and what was a narrow arm of the Lake going from Balcony Bridge to the Ladies' Pond directly to the south. . . . The handsome structure has revetment in blocks of gneiss in rockface random ashlar although the stones are not as big nor as 'rustic' as those of Riftstone Arch four hundred yards to the south. Between the two spans, on either side, are balconies resting on buttresses." -- Bridges of Central Park (Greensward Foundation, 1990)