Winter Twigs, page 4
3.24636
Pen and India ink on 4-ply cream board.
Digitized
Original
34.9 cm W x 63.3 cm H (Item)
29.2 cm W x 45.8 cm H (Platemark or image size)
29.2 cm W x 45.8 cm H (Platemark or image size)
1 sheet
Drawing
1943
Page 4 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 no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
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
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo)
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees (sassafras)
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. (American beech)
Carya cordiformis (Wang.) K. Koch (bitternut hickory)
Juglans nigra L. (black walnut)
Juglans cinerea L. (butternut)
Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medic. (Canada serviceberry)
Hamamelis virginiana L. (common witch-hazel)
Tilia L. (linden)
Sorbus L. (mountain-ash)
Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch (shagbark hickory)
Populus alba L. (white poplar)
Drawings -- United States -- 20th century
Pen works -- United States -- 20th century
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo)
Sassafras albidum (Nutt.) Nees (sassafras)
Fagus grandifolia Ehrh. (American beech)
Carya cordiformis (Wang.) K. Koch (bitternut hickory)
Juglans nigra L. (black walnut)
Juglans cinerea L. (butternut)
Amelanchier canadensis (L.) Medic. (Canada serviceberry)
Hamamelis virginiana L. (common witch-hazel)
Tilia L. (linden)
Sorbus L. (mountain-ash)
Carya ovata (Mill.) K. Koch (shagbark hickory)
Populus alba L. (white poplar)
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