Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 13 illustrations and layout

Identifier3.24670

TypeDrawing

Date created1946

DescriptionOriginal illustrations and layout for page 13, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #34: Ironwood or Hop Hornbeam
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, and fruits illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #35: Are you as Smart as a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker?
Illustration of a red oak trunk and sugar maple trunk to the right - sugar maple includes drawing of yellow-bellied sapsucker pecking rings of holes in the maple's trunk for sap.

Tree stump #36: Where Does the Water in These Streams Go?
Map of DuPage River, including West Branch and East Branch at Arboretum near top right, the Des Plaines River center right, the Kankakee River center bottom, and the Illinois River center left with arrow pointing left labeled "to Mississippi". 

Tree stump #37: The Thickness of Twigs
Identifying characteristics of ironwood and sumac twigs illustrated to the right.

Tree stump #38: Blue Ash
Identifying characteristics for leaves and twig illustrated to the right.
 

LanguageEnglish