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Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Cut-Over and Grazed Land (3.19502)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the grazed and cut-over land that was added to the Arboretum, including the effects of fencing out cattle.
[Illustration of a tree stump] Header: CUT-OVER AND GRAZED LAND was added to the Arboretum in 1910 [image of a cow's head with its tongue out]
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD:
- 1. No big trees in this area [illustration of a tree with a large red "X" over it]
- 2. Many stump sprouts [sketch of stump sprouts]
- 3. Many aspens and big-toothed poplars [sketch of aspens and poplars]
- 4. Young oaks, many of the same age [sketch of oaks]
- INTERPRETATION of THE RECORD:
- 1. Aspens and big-toothed poplars grow in sunny places.
- 2. The even age oaks show by their annual rings that they started growing on the year that the Arboretum fenced cows from this area.
- 3. The wild flowers have returned steadily to this area. There was only thistles, milkweed, dandelions, and other tough ones, there when the cattle were fenced out. Now there are trilliums, spring beauties, blood-root, may-apple, and many, many, others.
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 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24672)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, including some 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 #44: Which oak is this one?
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for four types of oak leaves outlined to the right - illustration in the first row is labeled "Are the lobes pointed - or - rounded," the middle row is lableled "deep - or -shallow," the bottom row is labeled "Is the surface leathery or dull".
Tree stump #45: Douglas Fir
Text handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated to the right - label "long end bud" points arrow to top center of needles drawing, and label "bracts" points arrow to center left of cone drawing.
Tree stump #46: Honey Locust
Labels handwritten in center panel and identifying characteristics of leaves, thorns, and pods illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Education charts: Pine-Oak Scrub Food Web (3.34242)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a pine-oak scrub food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- PRAIRIE WARBLER
- PITCH PINE
- FOWLER'S TOAD
- RED FOX
- SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
- CHICKADEE
- CATERPILLAR
- CENTIPEDE
- TOWHEE
- CHIPMUNK
- SCRUB OAK
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- BEETLE GRUB
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, various oaks (3.34251)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, trunks, and fruit from oak trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- --- / Oak
- Chinquapin Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Overcup [Oak]
Extent: 1 slide