Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 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 no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
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
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.
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (3) / Ian Garrard. (3.30233)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
Tree Portraits: Mountain-ash (3.31853)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a mountain-ash tree, probably European, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its berries. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom right:
- n
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
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, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 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:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 slide
The Stylish House: 1881 to 1906 (3.34275)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the late 19th century/early 20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- David and Mary / and / Theodore / Ethel / Victoria / Charles / and / Rusty / and / King
- 1881 / to / 1906
- [sketch of a potted plant on a small table]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and lawn surrounded by a fence, including the following labeled plants and trees:]
- mulberry
- cockscomb
- coleus
- hen and chickens
- hosta
- white birch
- cannas / nasturtiums / lobelias
- mountain ash
- castor beans / geranium / alyssum
- [sketches of three additional potted plants and a fan to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
The Stylish House: 1906 to 1931 (3.34276)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the early 20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Theodore and Elizabeth / and / Kathryn Jane / John Edward / and / Scotty
- 1906 to / 1931 [sketch of a piano with a vase of flowers on top of a piano shawl]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds, including the neighboring house and yard, with the following plants and trees labeled:]
- Golden / Bantam corn
- New Zealand / spinach
- hen and chickens / yellow alyssum / phlox subulata
- pinks
- Lombary / poplars
- regal lilies / delphiniums / madonna lilies / rosy morn perunias
- white birch
- Spiraea / Van Houttei
- mountain ash
- [sketches of a vase, a light fixture, and a plant stand to the right of the illustration]
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