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Rooting Habits of White Oak and Sugar Maple (3.102589)
Date: July 11 1974Creator: Doolittle, Jim
Type: Document
Description:Paper discussing the role of topography, the absorbing medium, and other factors on the rooting habits of White Oaks and Sugar Maples.
Extent: 30 sheets
Plants of the Chicago Region (3.103210)
Date: 1974Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Book
Description:This check list is an alphabetical index listing all the vascular plants that have been found growing wild in the Chicago area--in other words, a list of those plants which constitute the local flora. It is arranged for quick reference like a dictionary or encyclopedia so that plants may be looked up by either their scientific names or their common names. It attempts to supply the following kinds of information about each plant listed:
Other scientific names by which the plant is known in the manuals commonly used by Chicago area botanists.
Common names, if any, by which the plant is known.
Origin of the plant if it is not native to the Chicago region.
Counties within the Chicago region where the plant has been found growing wild.
Kinds of habitats in which the plant has been found growing in the Chicago region.
Other plants found growing in association with the plant in various habitats in the Chicago region, in cases where this information is available.
Current problems in regard to the taxonomy of the plant, where such problems have come to the author's attention.
Extent: xxiv, 474 p.
Plants of the Chicago Region (3.103211)
Date: 1979Creator: Swink, Floyd
Type: Book
Description:This book is principally an annotated checklist of the spontaneous vascular plant taxa of the Chicago Region, including distribution maps and identification keys. In addition it includes a section describing a method applicable to the Chicago Region for the environmental assessment of open lands from a vegetational standpoint.
Extent: lxxiii, 922 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Woody Plants of the Morton Arboretum (3.103318)
Date: 1972Type: Book
Description:This handlist is an index, listing alphabetically by genus and species all the scientific names under which living woody plants are currently being grown out-of-doors at the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois, U.S.A.
Includes a fold-out map at the back of the book.
Extent: xiii, 250 p.
Reading the Landscape of America (3.104846)
Date: 1975Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Book
Description:Originally published as Reading the Landscape.
Morton Arboretum Research Building First Floor Plan (3.104929)
Date: December 21 1979Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A3-2
Extent: 1 sheet
Proposed research building, Morton Arboretum (3.104937)
Date: 1979Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:West elevation; view from the southwest (2 sheets)
Extent: 3 sheets
Visitor Center - Revisions & modifications (3.108243)
Date: July 19 1971Creator: Myhrum, Arthur
Type: Plan
Description:Single sheet describing changes to the Visitor Center.
Extent: 1 sheet
Natural Community Profile: Lake Shore Dune (3.113803)
Date: 1976Creator: Illinois Natural Areas Inventory
Type: Dataset
Description:A community profile containing data for lake shore dunes.
Desert Tree Finder: a pocket manual for identifying desert trees (3.114588)
Date: 1974Type: Book
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (draft 2) (3.114620)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
This draft has more extensive pencil edits.
Extent: 7 pages
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (3.114621)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
Note: there are drafts of this paper available as well. This iteration includes a cover letter from George Ware that indicates it is likely the final version.
Extent: 8 pages
A New Look at Old Friends: Some Ecological Considerations for Tree Selection (draft 3) (3.114622)
Date: 1976Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:This paper discusses the ecological attributes of trees from naturally occurring populations and how that information can help to assess the suitability of trees planted along streets, in parks and in other man-modified situations.
This draft has extensive pencil edits and inserts.
Extent: 7 pages
BASELINE POPULATION AND COMMUNITY STATUS FOR RARE PLANT TAXA AT LOOKOUT POINT AND WABASH BREAKS DRY GRAVEL PRAIRIES TIPPECANOE CO., INDIANA (3.114670)
Date: February 1976Creator: Bowles, Marlin L.
Type: Document
Description:This paper is the result of a study to establish an ecological monitoring program that would provide a basis for detecting long-term changes in the population status of endangered and threatened plant taxa, and changes in associated communities. at Lookout Point and Wabash Breaks dry gravel prairies in Tippecanoe County, IN
Extent: 31 pages
Color Slides of Wild Flowers … (3.11520)
Date: 1978Creator: Case, Frederick W.
Type: Photographic image
The Morton Arboretum Newsletter, Winter 1977 (3.116363)
Date: 1977Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Serial
Extent: 4 pages
Block Print table cloth from design class with Nancy Hart Stieber (3.17690)
Date: 1973 – 1974Type: Print