"Fungus may be at the root of wilting, dying trees" [news clipping] (3.104801)
Date: June 8 1993Type: Document
Description:An article from the Chicago Tribune dated Tuesday, June 8, 1993, quoting Gary Watson and Tom Green of The Morton Arboretum who suggest verticillium wilt as the cause of recent tree stress in the DuPage County, IL area.
Extent: 2 sheets
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Autumn 1985 (3.107023)
Date: 1985Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Autumn 1985 Branches Newsletter features articles about: the decline of the Scotts and red pines plots and efforts by Plant Pathologist Dr. Tom Green and intern Sabine Huhndorf to discover the cause of pine wilt disease; and development of the Activity Arc to assist urban and suburban home gardeners with landscaping their properties. The Activity Arc includes the Ground Cover, Hedges, Dwarf Shrubs, Fragrant Plants, Roses and Woody Herbs gardens. Volunteer opportunities, educational opportunities and upcoming events are featured.
Extent: 4 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1986 (3.107027)
Date: 1986Creator: Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1986 Branches Newsletter features the following articles: the battle against the Eastern Tent Caterpillars using a team of volunteers to avoid spraying; wildflowers at the Arboretum including the Wild Garden at the Outpost; Ray Schulenberg's, Curator of Collections, process of adding and locating plants in the Arboretum in tandem with Tony Tyznik. Upcoming educational and volunteer opportunities are included as well as new and featured volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Spring 1988 (3.107035)
Date: 1988Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Engle, Martha
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1988 Branches Newsletter contains the following articles: a history of the rare book collection housed on shelves below the library and started by Joy Morton with contributions by Charles Sprague Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston and later Suzette Davidson; the crab apple collection of 50 species and the Du Page Environmental Awareness Center under the direction of Bill Borden founded to address the rapid growth of Du Page county and address issue such as waste disposal, air and water quality, land use and energy conservation. Volunteer opportunities, classes, trainings, and new volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Autumn 1993 (3.107053)
Date: 1993Creator: Kovach, Linda
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Autumn 1993 Branches Newsletter features articles on the following: an extensive interview with Dr. Tom Green, Plant Pathologist on his tenure at the Arboretum which included many tress studies, inventories and a study of mulches; and a write up of the recent volunteer recognition. A calendar of upcoming events, classes and trainings is included.
Extent: 4 pages
Preserving the Thornhill Hawthorns (3.10910)
Date: December 21 1984 – March 20 1985Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
The National Crabapple Evaluation Program (3.10940)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1986Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Plants Under Attack by MLOs Mycoplasma-like Organisms (3.11054)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1993Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1985 (3.113780)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1985 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as welcoming Spring with classes like Arboretum Spring and The Nature of Spring. There are also several opportunities for birding. Field seminars were offered for Spring in the Southern Appalachians and Isle of Royale Adventure, and field trips were available to Braidwood, IL, Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Nelson Lake Marsh. The Atlantic Richfield Foundation Grant awarded $125,000 to support the project "City Trees For City People".
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1985 (3.113782)
Date: 1985Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1985 Events, News & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a weekend getaway at the arboretum, a seminar on evergreens, and a lecture on plant diseases and human history. Field trips were scheduled for bald eagle watching in Savanna, IL, a Starved Rock State Park trip, and Chicago's Crystal Palaces of Garfield Park and Lincoln Park. Charles C. Haffner, Chairman of the Arboretum's Board of Trustees, received the Sol Feinstone Award, and Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Administrator of the Arboretum's Collections Programs, received the "Alice Burlingame Award for Humanitarian Service." The Fragrance Garden opened west of the Thornhill Building and approximately 6,000 people attended the 1984 Fall Festival.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1986 (3.113784)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as lectures about Tuberous Begonias and plants for troublesome spots. A future trip to Kenya for a field seminar was announced. Field trips include Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Mississippi Palisades State Park. A field seminar on English gardens and landscapes also took place. The Arboretum announced that library staff would begin cataloging and indexing the rare book collection to make it more accessible.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1986 (3.113786)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a discussion on the "The Romance of Botanical Names" and "Resource Conservation in an Urban Environment". There was a field trip to watch bald eagles in Savanna, IL. Charles A. Lewis, the Arboretum's Collections Group Administrator, was honored with the G.B. Gunslogson Medal for "the creative use of home gardening in benefiting people-plant relationships and the future of American life" from the American Horticultural Society. The woody plant collections were to be computerized. A new maple, 'Marmo', was introduced. Members were also encourage to write Lt. Governor George Ryan to advocate for the development of a lake on the Danada Forrest Preserve as part of the Briarcliff Flood Control Program.
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1987 (3.113788)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the field seminar "Spring in Door County" and the lecture "Getting at the Root of Spring Planting". Linda Sanford joined the Education staff as Curator of Youth Education, and Dr. Gary Watson joined the Research Group as Plant Pathologist. Dr. Frank Pascoe and Mrs. Linda Meyers were hired as Administrator and Secretary, respectively. The Arboretum received grants from the Institute of Museum Services Conservation Project and the Rice Foundation.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1987 (3.113789)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the IAA (Illinois Arborist Association) Seminar and Jamboree and a beekeeping workshop. The Arboretum lost its photographer John Kohout and his wife Kitty in an unfortunate car accident and was collecting funds for a memorial. Peter J. Van Der Linden joined the staff as Curator of the Woods. Charles Lewis, Horticulturalist and Collection Group Administrator, addressed The American Association of Science. The Nature Artists' Guild of The Morton Arboretum was started to encourage natural history art.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1987 (3.113790)
Date: 1987Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1987 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the upcoming Yuletide Celebration, Members' Ski Program, a Winter Ecology Walk, and Winter Bird Walks. There is also a lecture about Learning to Live With Expressways. The Great Lakes Forest Soils Conference, organized by Patrick Kelsey, Arboretum Research Soil Scientist, and Richard Hootman, Research Soil Specialist, took place with topics emphasizing soil development in undisturbed areas and disturbed or urbanized areas of the Arboretum problems associated with the growth of woody plants on "urban" soils; and the management of soils and vegetation in areas disturbed by construction. The Arboretum also received grants from the Institute of Museum Services, The Robert R. McCormick Charitable Trust; Chicago White Metal Charitable Foundation; Burroughs Corporation; AT&T Foundation; Bell Information Systems; Household Finance Corporation; Staley Continental, Inc.; W.W. Grainger, Inc.; The John D. and Catherin T. MacArthur Foundation; the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education; and Allied-Signal Inc.
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1988 (3.113792)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Cry Havoc! Weeds! (Part 1) and the field seminar "Spring Nature Photography in the Southern Appalachians." The judging for the 1987 Illinois Landscape Architecture Award was held at the Arboretum. The DuPage Environmental Awareness Center (DEAC) was opened to raise environmental awareness in the DuPage County region. Dr. David E. Davis, a noted mammalogist retired after a distinguished career, made a gift to the Arboretum for an endowed research chair, the Emily Rodgers Davis Chair, to accomplish research in plant-animal inter-relationships within the Arboretum and other areas of geographic interest to us.
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1988 (3.113794)
Date: 1988Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1988 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the lecture "Plant Diseases and Human History" and Valentine projects with pressed flowers. The decision was made to discontinue the Arboretum's maple syrup-making program due to competition from other area events. A portion of the collection was impacted by flooding. Peter Van Der Linden and Gary Irving joined the staff. A grant was received from The Cooperative College Botany Program, and Charles A. Lewis received a special award in recognition of his "outstanding contributions to the founding of the New York City Housing Authority's Garden Competition," and for continuing service to the Authority's ongoing Garden program.
Benefits of Organic Mulch (3.114682)
Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Description:A document that lists the benefits of organic mulch and includes a second page that expands on the benefits, discusses the disadvantages of using mulch incorrectly and provides recommendations for mulching correctly.
Extent: 2 sheets
Mulching Trees and Shrubs: Advantages and Disadvantages (3.114683)
Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Description:An article that discusses the benefits and disadvantages of mulching and provides recommendations for mulching correctly.
Extent: 4 pages
Specimen and Unusual Trees of the West Point Cemetery (3.114684)
Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Description:Descriptions of selected trees along a tree trail through the West Point Cemetery (Draft).
Extent: 6 pages
Trophy Point Tree Walk: Specimen and Unusual Trees of Trophy Point (3.114685)
Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article
Description:Describes trees located on the U S Military Academy at West Point campus tree trail (Draft).
Extent: 7 pages
1996/01/16: Robert M. Argent to Illinois Council on Forestry Development (ICFD) Urban and Community Forestry Task Group (3.114689)
Date: January 17 1996Type: Article
Description:A reminder for the 01/23/1996 meeting of the Urban and Community forestry Task Group that will discuss revision to the ICFD's Long-Range Plan of Illinois Forest Resources.
Extent: 1 page
1996/01/11: Gary L Rolfe to Illinois Council on Forestry Development (ICFD) & Task Group Members (3.114690)
Date: January 11 1996Type: Document
Description:Announcement of a change of date and time for the next meeting of the Illinois Council on Forestry Development.
Extent: 1 page
Minutes of Illinois Council on Forestry Development, Urban and Community Forestry Task Group meeting held October 12, 1995 (3.114691)
Date: October 12 1995Type: Document
Description:Meeting minutes from the Illinois Council on Forestry Development, Urban and Community Forestry Task Group meeting held October 12, 1995.
Extent: 1 page, two sided
Arbor Day, group planting tree in the Northern Illinois Collection (3.3940)
Date: 1990Type: Photographic image
Description:Arbor Day, group planting tree in the Northern Illinois Collection
(L to R): Duane Henry, Tom Green, three others unidentified
Extent: 1 photograph
Research Department Computer Software and Hardware Sharing Requirements (3.39927)
Date: October 10 1990Type: Document
Description:A series of 12 documents outlining existing computer equipment and an explanation of information needs, desired software, hardware, and applications within the Arboretum's Research Department for Marlin Bowles, Webb Crowley, Tom Green, Richard Hootman, Patrick Kelsey, Elizabeth Shimp, Mike Spravka, Gary Watson, Fay Wheatman, Chris Whelan, Gerould Wilhelm, and Linda Wetstein.
Extent: 12 sheets
1985/01/23: Herman Sievering to George Ware (3.40005)
Date: January 23 1985Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to George Ware discussing plans and staffing to study highway impacts,needle-washing, canopy exchange, and throughfall measurements.
Enclosed with the letter is an article titled "Contributions of Acid Deposition and Natural Processes to Cation Leaching for Forest Soils" from the Journal of the Air Pollution Association dated November, 1983.
Extent: 8 sheets
1985/01/21: Herman Sievering to George Ware (3.40009)
Date: January 21 1985Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to George Ware concerning the cost of appointing Sievering to conduct air pollution impacts on woody plants.
Extent: 2 sheets
1984/09/21: Herman Sievering to Tom Green and George Ware (3.40103)
Date: September 21 1984Creator: Sievering, Herman
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Herman Sievering of Governors State University to Tom Green and George Ware discussing an upcoming needle washing and canopy throughfall experiment with pricing information for equipment needed, including detailed information on an Aerochem Metrics wet/dry sampler. A copy of Herman Sievering's resume is also included.
Extent: 15 sheets
1994/12/13: Tom Green to George Ware (3.41535)
Date: December 13 1994Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from Tom Green of Western Illinois University to George Ware discussing tree donations and plantings, landscape design and long range planning for landscaping in downtown Macomb near the courthouse. Cover sheet briefly mentions names of interested summer interns.
Extent: 2 sheets
1994/12/01: Tim Howe and Tom Green to George Ware (3.41536)
Date: December 1 1994Creator: Howe, Timothy, Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Fascimile from Tim Howe and Tom Green of Western Illinois University asking George Ware to comment on a draft survey that will be funded in part by a grant from the USDA Forest Survey. The survey will assess community forestry programs in rural communities.
Extent: 5 sheets
1984/11/21: Thomas L. Green to [George Ware] (3.41608)
Date: November 21 1984Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Thomas L. Green describing the research work that Dr. Herman Sievering and James Crawley of Governors State University will be conducting at The Morton Arboretum and explaining that they are to be admitted to the grounds at no charge.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992/05/12: Tom Green to Chris Whelan (3.44241)
Date: May 12 1992Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Tom Green to Chris Whelan concerning the inclusion of the East Woods in the overall Master Plan for The Morton Arboretum landscape. Management treatment studies, whose results could be shared with others working to manage woodlands in the Chicago region and beyond, are also presented.
Extent: 2 sheets
George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - Tom Green chatting (3.4634)
Date: 1994Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - Tom Green chatting
George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - Research staff at Ware retirement - (Standing L to R): Gary Watson, Bill Wetzel, Pat Kelsey, Linda Masters, Rose Rieger, Steve Messenger, Tom Green, Jerry Wilhlem (Seated L to R): Virgil Howe, George Ware, Fay Wheatman, Christopher Dunn (3.4655)
Date: 1994Type: Photographic image
Description:George Ware Retirement Party in Founders Room - Research staff at Ware retirement - (Standing L to R): Gary Watson, Bill Wetzel, Pat Kelsey, Linda Masters, Rose Rieger, Steve Messenger, Tom Green, Jerry Wilhlem (Seated L to R): Virgil Howe, George Ware, Fay Wheatman, Christopher Dunn
Victory Gardens TV - (L to R): Joe Larkin, Tom Green, Tony Tyznik, John Neron, Bob Thomson, Bill Brain (3.4769)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Victory Gardens TV - (L to R): Joe Larkin, Tom Green, Tony Tyznik, John Neron, Bob Thomson, Bill Brain