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Watts, May Theilgaard

The Edge of the Forest

Identifier
3.24604
Format
Black India ink on 4-ply ivory rag board. 
Digitization Status
Digitized
Reproduction:
Original
Dimensions
62 cm W x 50 cm H (Item)
58.2 cm W x 45.7 cm H (Platemark or image size)
Extent
1 sheet
Type
Drawing
Date created
1944
Description
Illustrations 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 In
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 19, no. 9, September 1944, p. 34-35.
Subject - keywords and LC headings
Forest plants
Plant defenses
Plants--Identification
Seeds--Dispersal
Seeds--Identification
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Ribes cynosbati L. (prickly gooseberry)
Prunus serotina Ehrh. (black cherry)
Rubus occidentalis L. (black raspberry)
Prunus virginiana L. (choke cherry)
Sambucus canadensis L. (common elderberry)
Crataegus punctata Jacq. (dotted hawthorn)
Cornus racemosa Lamarck (gray dogwood)
Rosa carolina L. (pasture rose)
Malus ioensis (Wood) Britt. (prairie crabapple)
Rosa setigera (prairie rose)
Rhus glabra L. (smooth sumac)
Rubus allegheniensis Porter (wild blackberry)
Prunus americana Marsh. (wild plum)
Related Collections
Artwork
Language
English