Emergent Plant Series: #4, Pioneer Tree Stage (3.19488)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.
Header: PIONEER TREE STAGE / WILLOWS ARE FIRST
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 4 sections]:
- Tree Zone
- willow
- silver maple
- Emergent plant one
- Floating leaf zone
- Submerged plant zone
- Tree Zone
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
Growth of Pond: Pioneer Tree Stage (3.19495)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond with trees and plants showing at its edges and bays, and an illustration of a tree and cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom, with leaves and flowers of shallower plants extended up to and above the water's surface.
Header: PIONEER TREE STAGE / WILLOWS ARE FIRST TO ARRIVE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- Pond
- [divided into 4 sections]:
- TREE ZONE
- willows
- silver maples
- EMERGENT PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAVED ZONE
- SUMERGED PLANT ZONE
- TREE ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Willow branches [graphic]. (3.24543)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Hassall, Joan.
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : brush and pen, one color 25 x 21 cm.
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 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. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some 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) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (2) / Ian Garrard. (3.30232)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
Weeping willows in summer (3.3029)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Weeping willows in summer
Extent: 1 photograph
Stream and bank under the willows / S.P. Rolt Triscott. (3.30618)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Triscott, S. P. Rolt (Samuel Peter Rolt), 1846-1925.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor, color visible image 23 x 34 cm.
Tree Portraits: Willow (3.31790)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Willow tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of a twig with buds, and descriptive text.
Header: WILLOW
Drawings and text, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- twig and buds: single scale on each bud
- tree: twigs slender, yellow in Spring; along a river bank
Extent: 1 sheet
Puffer Lake southern boundary (3.31915)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:View of the southern boundary of Puffer Lake. Willows and cattails are all that remain of the richer flora visible last summer.
Extent: 1 negative
Poplar and willow plantings in winter along DuPage River (3.33575)
Date: 1924Type: Photographic image
Description:Poplar and willow plantings in winter along DuPage River
Extent: 1 negative
Salix Collection along the DuPage River (3.33977)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Salix Collection along the DuPage River
Extent: 1 negative
Education charts: Filling Lake (3.34229)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a filling lake association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: FILLING LAKE
Labels and image from top to bottom, left to right:
- dragon fly
- kingfishe[r]
- willow
- cat-tail
- muskrat
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 slide
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets
Salix Hybrids [Part 2 of planting plans] (3.5688)
Date: 1920sCreator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Part 2 of 2 of planting plan for Salix Hybrids. No indication is given as to the location within the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Salix Hybrids [Part 1 of planting plans] (3.5689)
Date: 1920sCreator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Part 1 of 2 of planting plans for Salix Hybrids. No indication is given as to the location within the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet