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Watts, May Theilgaard

Winter Twigs, page 1

3.24627
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Digitized
Original
35.7 cm W x 54.4 cm H (Item)
29 cm W x 45.8 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1943
Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.  Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.

Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:

1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
  • Black walnut
  • Butternut
  • Catalpa
  • Maple
  • Sycamore
  • Sumac
  • Ash
2) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE BUDS
  • Flowering dogwood
  • Beech
  • Willow
  • Oak
  • Linden
  • Alder
  • Tulip [tree] 

3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
  • Black walnut
  • Butternut
  • Hackberry
  • Tulip [tree]
  • Kentucky coffee tree
  • Oak
  • Alder
Morton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 18, no. 11, p. 61-64.
Twigs
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch (Kentucky coffeetree)
Liriodendron tulipifera L. (tulip-tree)
Alnus B. Ehrh. (alder)
Fraxinus L. (ash)
Fagus L. (beech)
Juglans nigra L. (black walnut)
Juglans cinerea L. (butternut)
Catalpa Scop. (catalpa)
Cornus florida L. (flowering dogwood)
Celtis L. (hackberry)
Tilia L. (linden)
Acer L. (maple)
Quercus L. (oak)
Rhus L. (sumac)
Platanus occidentalis L. (sycamore)
Salix L. (willow)
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