The Edge of the Forest

Identifier3.24604

TypeDrawing

Date created1944

DescriptionIllustrations of  thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.

Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST

• includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top

Illustrations divided into three sections: 

• Bird-distributed seeds  
• Bee-pollenated flowers
• Protection from Grazers 
  • Armor
  • Bitter Taste

Plants illustrated and described in chart from left to right, top to bottom:

• Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
• Prunus americana -- Wild plum
• Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
• Malus ioensis -- Wild crab  
• Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
• Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
• Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
• Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
• Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
• Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
• Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
• Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
• Prunus serotina -- Black cherry

Appeared InMorton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, no. 9, September 1944, p. 34-35.

LanguageEnglish