Winter Twigs, page 2

Identifier3.24631

TypeDrawing

Date created1943

DescriptionPage 2 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.  Original identifying text has detached and is mostly missing.

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

1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING

• White ash -- Fraxinus americana
• Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
• Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
• Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
• Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
• Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
• Red maple -- Acer rubrum
• Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
• Box-elder -- Acer negundo
• Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
• Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
• Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
• Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa  [and] Catalpa bignonioides

2) [Original text] TREES WITH CATKINS PRESENT IN WINTER 

• Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
• Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
• [as a single illustration:]
  • Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
  • River birch -- Betula nigra
  • Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
  • Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
  • European white birch -- Betula pendula
• European alder -- Alnus glutinosa

Some terms and text originally adhered to board have detached and are housed with art.

Appeared InMorton Arboretum Bulletin Of Popular Information, Vol. 18, no. 11, p. 61-64.