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Northwest Corner of the Slusser Land (The Morton Arboretum) (3.100478)
Date: October 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:A northwest corner acre of what was once the "Slusser Land" at The Morton Arboretum.
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. (bearberry), habit (3.101090)
Date: April 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (L.) Spreng. (bearberry), distant view of a large bed of bearberry, with a metal identifying label on a small post in the middle of the bed. The plant's leaves are jus beginning to turn color.
Extent: 1 slide
Gazebo for Mrs. Suzette Morton Zurcher (3.102471)
Date: June 10 1962Creator: Arthur Myhrum & Edward H. Bennett, Jr.
Type: Plan
Description:Plan for gazebo for Suzette Morton Zurcher's residence, constructed in the Sterling Pond area on a parcel of land originally within the Slusser Farm.
Extent: 1 sheet
Asclepias incarnata L. (swamp milkweed), close-up of fruit (3.103176)
Date: September 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Asclepias incarnata L. (swamp milkweed), close-up of fruit
Extent: 1 slide
Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’ (Golden Japanese barberry), shrub (3.105269)
Date: August 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’ (Golden Japanese barberry), golden-leaved shrub, other shrubs and trees and turfgrass in background, plant habit
Extent: 1 slide
Betula nigra L. (river birch), habit (3.105358)
Date: September 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula nigra L. (river birch), multi-trunked tree next to driveway and in front of house
Extent: 1 slide
Betula pumila (bog birch), catkins and leaves on twig (3.105460)
Date: October 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pumila (bog birch), catkins and leaves on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Betula (birch) white-barked leafless tree (3.105466)
Date: April 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula (birch) white-barked leafless tree
1962/06/14: Homer Buck to Clarence Godshalk (3.107137)
Date: June 14 1962Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Homer Buck, associate aquatic biologist with the State Natural History Survey Division in Urbana, regarding its stocking of fish in Lake Marmo and sampling of the fish population in Arbor Lake. the document spells out the success (or failure) of the project and potential next steps for the following year. Clarence Godshalk's brief reply is also included. A single page with the stocking of largemouth bass and brown bullheads is included in Buck's letter.
Extent: 4 pages