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Watts, May Theilgaard

Four Types of Hawthorns

3.24607
India ink on 4-ply ivory rag board, matted.
Digitized
Original
67 cm W x 52 cm H (Item)
63.5 cm W x 48.7 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1946
Illustrations of four hawthorn species, created to accompany "Hawthorn Traits" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full tree in winter, a leaf, and fruit for each species. Descriptive text accompanies each tree illustration. 

Header: FOUR TYPES of HAWTHORNS

Trees and text depicted from left to right, top to bottom:
  • Cockspur Hawthorn - Crus-galli Group - most persistent fruit, latest bloom, leathery foliage, short petioles -
  • Dotted Hawthorn - Punctuate Group - flattest top, deepest veins, dotted red or yellow fruit
  • Downy Hawthorn - Molles Group - largest leaves, first to bloom, first fruit to ripen, largest fruits
  • Thicket Hawthorn - Pruinosae Group - thin small leaves, bronze when unfolding, twiggy growth -
Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information, Vol. 21, no. 4, p. 18-19.
Trees--Identification
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Crataegus crus-galli L. (cockspur hawthorn)
Crataegus punctata Jacq. (dotted hawthorn)
Crataegus mollis (Torr. & Gray) Scheele (downy hawthorn)
Crataegus intricata Lange (thicket hawthorn)
Artwork
English
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