Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage (3.19489)
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 forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST 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
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
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 6 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24656)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 6, 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 #10: Black Walnut
Identifying characteristics for leaves, seeds, and nuts illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #11: Red Oak Bark
Identifying characteristics for bark and leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #12: H-A-M
Mnemonic device for remembering which common trees bear leaves opposite each other: H = horse-chestnut, A= ash, and M = maple. Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right labeled "alternate" and "opposite".
Tree stump #13: Who Planted These 4 Trees in a Row?
Generalized illustration of four trees with identifying characteristics for seeds illustrated to the right labeled "oak," "maple," "ash," and "oak".
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 10 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24660)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 10, 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 #22: Ash
White Ash "twig," "leaf," and "fruit" as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #23: A Woodchuck's Burrow
Illustration of a woodchuck and a cross-section of a woodchuck burrow to the right.
Tree stump #24: Moss on trees
Illustration of four generalized tree trunks with moss covering left side of each to the right.
Tree stump #25: Leaf veination
Identifying characteristics for "parallel-veined," "palmate-veined," and "pinnate-veined" leaves as labeled and illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (1) / Ian Garrard. (3.30231)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
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
The Ash and Lilac Collection (3.5691)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1927Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Planting plan and design for ash and lilac plantings along the east side of the DuPage River near Lake Jopamaca.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Ash and Lilac Collection [preliminary drawing #2, including Joy Morton's signature] (3.5693)
Date: 1927Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description: Preliminary drawing showing the evolving design for ash and lilac plantings along the east side of the DuPage River near Lake Jopamaca. Shows Joy Morton's signature of approval.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Ash and Lilac Collection [preliminary drawing] (3.5694)
Date: 1927Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description: Preliminary drawing showing the evolving design for ash and lilac plantings along the east side of the DuPage River near Lake Jopamaca.
Extent: 1 sheet