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43-622: Arboretum is situated in Zürich- Enge , as of today being a district of the city of Zurich, on Lake Zurich , lake shore being a part of the so-called Quaianlagen initiated by Arnold Bürkli . The park is separated by the General-Guisan-Quai and Mythenquai roads, from the lower lake shore promenade and the Enge harbour area. Public transport is provided by the Zurich Tram route 5, as well by

86-441: A hole in a deformed "D" shape. In the past, it was assumed once any symptoms had started to show, or once a tree had become infested, it was likely too late to begin management. Later it became clear that only on-site professionals diagnosing an individual tree can responsibly make such determinations. Hymenoscyphus fraxineus is a fungal disease that attacks ash trees. The disease causes leaf loss, crown dieback, and lesions in

129-457: A rock collection, and an Alpine panorama accounting the Glarus Alps view from the park should provide to the citizens a piece of education on a Sunday stroll. The affiliated formed Arboretum Kommission comprised also the landscape architects Evariste Mertens and Otto Froebel and the botany Professor Carl Schröter, who managed to communicate science and beauty in the new park. In 1886 the work for

172-571: A serviceable longbow if properly worked. The wood was used in ceiling fan blades from the 1970s through the mid-1980s, though cane was sometimes simulated with plastic then. It is no longer used for ceiling fan blades in most countries. White ash is not seen in cultivation as often as green ash , due to its preference for undisturbed forest sites away from urban pollution and soil compaction. It sometimes has been planted for its consistently reliable autumn colors, which typically are bright orange and red hues as opposed to other species of ash that produce

215-443: A tree grafting; a Fraxinus americana graftage based on a slower growing surface, thus the strain at the intersection is almost seamlessly thicker. The lakeward side of the easterly hill section is meant by the garden architects as an open-minded moraine , and an alpinum , a collection of mountain plants, but some years later was abandoned as one of the 'garden fashions' of the 19th century. The high maintenance perennial planting

258-549: A uniform yellow color. Cultivation of white ash differs across North American continent. For example, within the City of Chicago region, 2010 statistics show most common street tree species is white ash at 6.2%. Along with third ranked green type at 4.9%, ashes combine to make up 11% percent of the city's street trees, with an overall population of 13,648,044 million standing ashes within Cook County alone. Autumn Purple, or Junginger,

301-455: A vascular disease classified as ash yellows . It was assumed damage was caused by the EAB taking advantage of weakened trees. Other recognizable signs regularly observed have been upper crown dieback, epicormic shoots or sprouts, bark lesions, frass filled larval galleries, and deformed exit holes. When the "flatheaded" beetle has fully developed, it will bore out of the tree, in this instance, with

344-451: A wild variety of American white ash selected for its purple leaf color, was discovered by University of Wisconsin horticulturist Karl Junginger of McKay Nursery in Waterloo, Iowa . After its introduction in 1956, it quickly became the most popular and most expensive landscaping selection, surpassing the high priced ginkgo , London plane and white/burr oak . A related species, Biltmore ash,

387-438: Is a forest tree that commonly occurs alongside sugar maple while green ash is a pioneer species that inhabits riparian zones and disturbed areas. The white ash's compound leaves usually have 7 leaflets per leaf whereas the counts in other ash trees more often vary. Like other species in the section Melioides , Fraxinus americana is dioecious , with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals. White ash

430-528: Is a very attractive point of attraction due to its unique portfolio of exotic birds. But also the townspeople themselves, use the wheelchair visitors hall of the aviary to expand their knowledge of the world of birds, of which approximately 111 exotics in 33 species are represented. Each year there are around 45,000 visitors, including many tourists, who get free information about some of the rarest bird species of Switzerland in eight naturally designed inn walks and three landscape-like outdoor enclosures. The lido of

473-450: Is also favorable for furniture and flooring . A study compared it to eight other different species, and it showed the highest antibacterial activity in the context of manufacturing chopping boards. Woodworkers use the timber mainly for interior uses due to high perishability in contact with ground soil. It is also used to make lobster traps . Since the 1950s, it has also become a popular choice for solid electric guitar bodies. It makes

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516-481: Is focused on the bird rescue and the publicity for the population, and therefore houses a unique competence center for native and exotic birds emerged. The foundation is financed by contributions and donations from its about 700 members, and by donations from individuals and prestigious foundations. The bird care station has a reputation, which goes far beyond the Swiss borders. For tourists, in particular for ornithologists, it

559-504: Is listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class A object of national importance. Enge (Z%C3%BCrich) Enge is a quarter in District 2 of Zürich , Switzerland. Enge was incorporated into Zürich in 1893, along with 11 other formerly independent municipalities . In 2011, the population was 8,597. Enge, which is only 2.4 km ,

602-399: Is one of the most used trees for everyday purposes and, to keep up with high demand, is cultivated almost everywhere possible. The wood is white and quite dense (within 20% of 670 kg/m ), strong, and straight-grained. Its species produces an ideal, atypical dominant excurrent structured crown. It is a traditional timber of choice for production of baseball bats and tool handles. The wood

645-466: Is similar in appearance to the green ash , making identification difficult. The lower sides of the leaves of white ash are lighter in color than their upper sides, and the outer surface of the twigs of white ash may be flaky or peeling. Green ash leaves are similar in color on upper and lower sides, and twigs are smoother. White ash leaves turn yellow or red in autumn. Despite some overlap, the two species tend to grow in different locations as well; white ash

688-456: Is sometimes treated as a variety of white ash. Other taxonomists argue that Biltmore ash is its own species ( Fraxinus biltmoreana ). North American native ash tree species are used by North American frogs as a critical food source, as leaves that fall from the trees are particularly suitable for tadpoles to feed upon in ponds (both temporary and permanent), large puddles, and other water sources. Species such as red maple , which are taking

731-508: Is the smallest neighbourhood in district 2. Zürich Enge railway station is a stop of Zürich S-Bahn on the lines S2 , S8 , S21 and S24 . Enge is located in prehistoric swampland on small islands around Sechseläutenplatz and peninsulas in Zürich. It is situated between the Limmat and Lake Zurich . Prehistoric pile dwellings around Lake Zurich were set on piles in order to protect against

774-508: The China group also is represented by Prunus serotina and Toona sinensis , a cedar, which is native to northern and western China. At the Enge lido is situated an impressive Beech group whose branches are cascading to the ground. Inside the group of trees are also powerful green-leaved trees, but also the purple Fagus sylvatica f. purpurea , and the outer ends form narrow-leaved Beeches. In

817-605: The Israelitische Cultusgemeinde Zürich (ICZ) in Zürich-Enge at the Arboretum Zürich is listed as a Class A object of national importance. 47°21′49″N 8°31′52″E  /  47.36361°N 8.53111°E  / 47.36361; 8.53111 This Canton of Zürich location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Fraxinus americana Fraxinus americana ,

860-664: The UNESCO World Heritage Site Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps , the settlement is also listed in the Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance as a Class object , as well as the Arboretum including the Voliere Zürich , as part of the so-called Quaianlagen . The Synagoge Zürich Löwenstrasse is also listed as a Class B object of regional importance, The library of

903-530: The white ash or American ash , is a fast-growing species of ash tree native to eastern and central North America . The species is native to mesophytic hardwood forests from Nova Scotia west to Minnesota , south to northern Florida , and southwest to eastern Texas . Isolated populations have also been found in western Texas , Wyoming , and Colorado , and the species is reportedly naturalized in Hawaii . There are an estimated 8 billion ash trees in

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946-491: The Arboretum is also a popular public bath, and also houses the swimming Seebad Enge , which is also a unique lakeshore sauna during winter season. The swimming lido consists of a building construction that is anchored in the lake. Conceived by Robert Landolt , the two-piece bathing complex was built in 1959/60, since 1999 it is private-owned and provides an open lake side sauna and gastronomy which were installed in 2003/04. At

989-599: The Danish sculptor Einar Utzon-Frank towards the General-Guisan-Quai. The tree was imported from the USA respectively the east coast between the states of New York and Georgia , and wears from late spring to early summer blue-gray flowers, changed to pink in early autumn fruits and later deep red cucumbers . Its down to earth reaching, strong branches predestine it almost to become a popular climbing tree for children. In addition,

1032-503: The EAB is an invasive species, highly destructive to ash trees in its introduced range. The damage of this insect rivals that of chestnut blight and Dutch elm disease . To put its damage in perspective, the number of chestnuts killed by the chestnut blight was around 3.5 billion chestnut trees while there are 3.5 billion ash trees in Ohio alone. Dutch elm disease killed only 200 million elm trees while EAB threatens 7.5 billion ash trees in

1075-451: The EAB than green ash, which has nearly no resistance; however this could also possibly be due to white ash not being used in landscaping as extensively or placed in high-stress environments. An infested tree can be recognized by premature fall color and leaf senescence observed on affected branches between August and last week of September. Before the EAB was officially identified, such dieback symptoms were thought to have been caused by

1118-517: The United States – the majority being white ash trees and green ash trees . White ash trees are threatened by the spread of the invasive emerald ash borer ( Agrilus planipennis ), whose larvae kill ash trees. It was detected in Detroit, Michigan in 2002, and later found in eastern Canada and the majority of U.S. states. The name white ash derives from the glaucous undersides of the leaves. It

1161-421: The United States. The insect threatens the entire North American genus Fraxinus . Since its introduction into the United States and Canada in the 1990s, and its subsequent detection in 2002, it has spread to eleven states and adjacent parts of Canada. It has killed at least 50 million ash trees so far and threatens to kill most of the ash trees throughout North America. White ash exhibits a little more resistance to

1204-531: The VBZ bus lines 161 and 165 at the Rentenanstalt stop. The Arboretum is an important part of the historical lake quays (German: Quaianlagen ) which were inaugurated in 1887. The quays are an important milestone in the development of the modern city of Zurich, as by the construction of the new lake front, Zurich was transformed from the medieval small town on the Limmat and Sihl rivers to an attractive modern city on

1247-475: The Zürichsee lake shore. The Arboretum was created according to the then-current style of a public garden. Originally, it was intended as a cultivated and richly equipped, but otherwise conventional parkland. Shortly before the construction work started, a group of botany and geology professors made proposals to enrich the park concept, in due consideration of scientific aspects. A tree collection with exotic plants,

1290-545: The advantage that all trees have the identical starting conditions and sufficient light to flourish in a few decades to ensure original character of the arboretum. The Arboreturm also houses a small aviary and the so-called Vogelpflegestation , meaning a unique veterinary hospital for wild birds. It claims to be the most important emergency department in Switzerland for injured and sick wild birds, and also for young birds that were fallen from their nests. Established in 1902, it

1333-570: The bark. This fungus is, for the most part, fatal, both directly and indirectly, by weakening the tree's immune system so that it is more susceptible to attacks from pests or pathogens. Because of this, younger trees are more affected, and fully mature ash trees are incapable of living long enough to reproduce. The disease has spread over most of Europe and has been confirmed in Britain, however as of 2018 it has not been found in North America. The scale of

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1376-399: The design of the plant started, and Otto Froebel teamed up with his professional colleagues Evariste Mertens. Cleverly, they modeled the fresh lake level terrain wrested from and the park in the style of the late garden laid, and succeeded in the picturesque grouping of trees. The scientific concept is rounded off by a rock collection, as well as the first alpine panorama of Zurich. The trees of

1419-424: The existing planting concept. The basis for the development of the park maintenance according to the original concept was introduced in 1985. Today it presents many trees in mature beauty. The trees developed in over a hundred years enormously; many groups of trees have reached their maximum, others have already been renewed. The challenge of the coming decades is to renew the tree collection the scientific concept of

1462-526: The eye of the observer in the distance to the Alps. The information board that is illustrating the Alpine panorama is supposed to have been the first of its kind in Zurich, to round off the concept of education and edification of the Zurich citizenship . Around the increased park benches at the hill, there is arranged tree group that consists almost entirely of dark Pinophytas . The garden architectes intended to extend

1505-469: The foot of the lake shore hill that elevates around 3 metres (10 ft), the Arnold Bürkli memorial honors the tireless creating engineer being the driving force behind the new quays . The simple monument was inaugurated in 1899, five years after his death, at Bürkli's favorite place in the Arboretum, or by the words of the sculptor Richard Kissling, in the midst of his creation . The Arboretum Zurich

1548-455: The occasional flooding of the rivers Linth and Jona . Zürich–Enge Alpenquai , a locality of the municipality of Zürich, is located on the shore of Lake Zurich in Enge. It was bordered by the settlements at Kleiner Hafner and Grosser Hafner on a peninsula island in the effluence of the Limmat, within an area of about 0.2 square kilometres (49.42 acres) in Zürich. It is one of 56 Swiss sites of

1591-466: The past, to also future generations to the refined richness of the botanical collection to be true to. The Arboretum is maintained as first historic park system in Zurich since 1985 according to garden conservation aspects. Based on the concept of Professor Schröter, the tree collection is divided into three segments: A striking solitaire is the Magnolia acuminata at the sculpture of Aphrodite (1921) by

1634-506: The perspective by planting initially bright tree species with small leaves, seamlessly to dark-leaved species, and finally to exit the arboretum towards the Enge harbour in a perspective sense to evergreen species. After the devastation of the Lothar storm in December 1999, this group of trees had to be overall replaced, based on the first tree inventory of 1898. The total renewal of the group had

1677-457: The place of American ash species in the North American ecosystem, typically have much higher leaf tannin levels. Ash species native to North America also provide important habitat and food for various other creatures that are native to North America. The emerald ash borer ( Agrilus planipennis ), also commonly known by the acronym EAB, is a green beetle native to Asia. In North America,

1720-512: The place of ash due to the ash borer , are much less suitable for the frogs as a food source—resulting in poor frog survival rates and small frog sizes. The lack of tannins in the American ash variety makes them a good food source for frogs, but are not resistant to the ash borer. Varieties of ash from outside North America typically have much higher tannin levels and resist the borer. Maples and various non-native invasive trees, trees that are taking

1763-457: The so-called China-group on the lake shore hide three one-man bunkers , which were built in 1942 to 'protect' the lower lake basin; since 1992, the bunkers are under cantonal conservation. The Arboretum is obtained largely in its original composition, but in the 1980s it became an urgent task to continue the original scientific concept in the replanting, however, larger groups of trees had to be replaced and new planted trees had to be integrated in

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1806-415: The summer when the trees are in full leaf, they form a tree cathedral , in those shadows reigns a soothing coolness and soft twilight. Since 2006 an open gap in the middle of the group, as the central Beech unfortunately had to be cut. The death of the otherwise durable Beech is also a result of poor soil conditions, which occur on the artificial lake shore bed. Just steps away, there is a beautiful example of

1849-409: Was replaced with flowers shrubs as being much more easier to care by the park maintenance workers. Since 1988 the alpine garden blooms again, but the mountain plants are found only on the sunniest places to the southwest, and rather robust blooms perennials, including Sedums and Hylotelephium from the nearby Sukkulentensammlung . The original rock formation on the lake shore was intended, to lead

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