Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
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:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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 mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
Extent: 1 sheet
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Horse-chestnut (3.27679)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of horse-chestnut leaves, stems, and a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Chestnut Horse
- Aesculus hippocastanum
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Horse-chestnut (3.31857)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a horse-chestnut tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its seed. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- q
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #2 (3.34234)
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 display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 slide
Opposite buds: Horse chestnut, Ash, and Maple (3.34356)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A display showing opposit buds on horse chestnut, ask, and maple twigs. Above each twig is a capital letter representing its corresponding tree name, which spells out HAM.
Extent: 1 slide
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal (3.47952)
Date: April 1 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal (3.47953)
Date: April 1 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal (3.47954)
Date: April 1 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), bud, terminal
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), flower, full (3.47955)
Date: May 15 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), flower, full
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), flower, full (3.47956)
Date: May 15 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), flower, full
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), habit, winter (3.47957)
Date: April 1 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), habit, winter
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), inflorescence (3.47958)
Date: May 15 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), inflorescence
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), inflorescence (3.47959)
Date: May 15 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), inflorescence
Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), leaf, summer (3.47960)
Date: May 15 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aesculus hippocastanum (Horse-chestnut), leaf, summer