The Morton Arboretum [topographic map] (3.100232)
Date: December 16 1985Creator: Sidwell Company
Type: Map
Description:Topographic data produced from aerial photography made Dec.16, 1985. True elevations given. Includes Hidden Lake leased land.
Extent: 5 sheets
Pat Armstrong Raking Prairie Hay (3.100532)
Date: October 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Pat Armstrong raking prairie hay.
Bill Thorton raking Prairie Hay (3.100533)
Date: October 1985Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K., Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bill Thorton raking prairie hay.
Summer Scene in the Schulenberg Prairie (3.100570)
Date: August 8 1985Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A summer scene in the Schulenberg Prairie.
Symphyotrichum laeve (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve (smooth blue aster) and Silphium laciniatum L. (compass plant), habitat (3.100575)
Date: October 1 1985Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Symphyotrichum laeve (L.) Á.Löve & D.Löve (smooth blue aster) and Silphium laciniatum L. (compass plant), habitat
Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. (side-oats grama grass), close-up of flowers (3.100635)
Date: July 1985Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bouteloua curtipendula (Michx.) Torr. (side-oats grama grass), close-up of flowers
Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. (pale purple coneflower), habit, habitat (3.100756)
Date: June 18 1985Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Echinacea pallida (Nutt.) Nutt. (pale purple coneflower)
1985/07/25: Barb Engel to George Ware (3.100799)
Date: July 25 1985Creator: Engel, Barb
Type: Document
Description:A thank you letter and request for trees to George Ware from Barb Engel of Athens, IL, for Athenian Community Park.
Extent: 2 sheets
1985/01/16: Lois McCullagh to George Ware (3.100800)
Date: January 16 1985Creator: MuCullagh, Lois
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lois McCullagh of the Scottish Home, North Riverside, IL, to George Ware arranging assistance from Dr. Ware in creating a tree program for the home.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/01/25: George Ware to Lorin L. Schab (3.100811)
Date: January 25 1985Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Response from Dr. Ware to Mr. Schab's inquiry, on behalf of the village of Westhaven, IL, about receiving elm saplings from the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/08/30: George Ware to Brian R. Lillie (3.100866)
Date: August 30 1985Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George Ware to Brian R. Lillie of the City of Rochester, NY Division of Forestry concerning elms that will be provided for testing.
1985/09/06: Brian Lillie to George Ware (3.100867)
Date: September 6 1985Creator: Lillie, Brian R.
Type: Document
Description:A thank you letter from Brian Lillie, City Forester, City of Rochester, NY to George Ware concerning elm trees to be received next spring
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/04/02: Jack L. Good to George Ware (3.100870)
Date: April 2 1985Creator: Good, Jack L.
Type: Document
Description:Request from the Sugar Creek Golf Course in Villa park to participate in a Cooperative Research program with the Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/02/03: William J. Mitchener to George Ware (3.100873)
Date: February 3 1985Creator: Mitchener, William J.
Type: Document
Description:A note from William Mitchener to George Ware anticipating receipt of hybrid elms.
Extent: 1 sheet
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), leaves and berries (3.101228)
Date: August 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), view of several branches of a black chokeberry, the glossy dark green leaves interspersed with lightly tinged fall red leaves. Fat globes of black berries are nestled along the stems.
Extent: 1 slide
Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), berries and leaves on twigs (3.101243)
Date: August 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Aronia melanocarpa (Michx.) Elliott (black chokeberry), berries and leaves on twigs
Extent: 1 slide
Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal (pawpaw), close-up of interior of mature fruit with seeds (3.103946)
Date: October 1985Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal (pawpaw), close-up of interior of mature fruit with seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal (pawpaw), spring form (3.103962)
Date: April 1985Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal (pawpaw), spring form, new foliage, grass and dandelions in background
Extent: 1 slide
Symphyotrichum boreale (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Löve & D. Löve (Northern bog aster), flower on stem (3.104039)
Date: May 1985Creator: Dritz, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:Symphyotrichum boreale (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Löve & D. Löve (Northern bog aster), flower on stem
Extent: 1 slide
Doellingeria umbellata (Mill.) Nees (flat-topped aster), flowers (3.104080)
Date: August 1985Creator: Shouba, Jack
Type: Photographic image
Description:Doellingeria umbellata (Mill.) Nees (flat-topped aster), flowers, white ray flowers with yellow disc centers, leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Astragalus zionis M.E.Jones (Zion milkvetch), close-up of flowers (3.104137)
Date: June 3 1985Creator: Jaffe, P.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Astragalus zionis M.E.Jones (Zion milkvetch), close-up of flowers; pink pea shaped flowers; compound leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Atraphaxis spinosa L. (spiny-buckwheat), habit (3.104165)
Date: May 22 1985Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Atraphaxis spinosa L. (spiny-buckwheat), habit; multi-branched deciduous shrub with rosy-tinted flowers; ground and grass in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Atraphaxis spinosa L. (spiny-buckwheat), close-up of twig with flowers and leaves (3.104166)
Date: May 22 1985Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Atraphaxis spinosa L. (spiny-buckwheat), close-up of twig with flowers and leaves; oval to obovate gray- green leaves; rosy-tinted flower clusters.
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), habit (3.105131)
Date: August 27 1985Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), habit
Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), flowers and leaves (3.105135)
Date: August 27 1985Creator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis salicina Torr. & Gray (willow baccharis), flowers and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea (Nutt.) Kartez & Gandhi (cream wild indigo), several blooming plants (3.105166)
Date: June 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea (Nutt.) Kartez & Gandhi (cream wild indigo), several plants in full bloom, cream-colored flowers; purplish-green stems, plants surrounded by other plants
Extent: 1 slide
Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea (Nutt.) Kartez & Gandhi (cream wild indigo), several flowering plants (3.105175)
Date: June 1985Type: Photographic image
Description:Baptisia bracteata var. leucophaea (Nutt.) Kartez & Gandhi (cream wild indigo), several flowering plants surrounded by other types of plants, flowers with cream-colored petals, trifoliate leaves, plant habit
Extent: 1 slide
Soil Map of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration (3.106152)
Date: 1980 – circa 1990Type: Map
Description:Numbered sections refer to soil series on the Prairie Restoration at The Morton Arboretum, later named the Schulenberg Prairie. Key identifies number and name of soil series as well as the slope class.
Extent: 1 sheet
Draft of 1985 Members' Cooperative Research Program Announcement and Application (3.106944)
Date: 1985Type: Document
Description:Communication with Morton Arboretum Members about the Members' Cooperative Research Program for 1985 with an edit.
Extent: 1 sheet, two-sided
1985 Homes of Hybrid Elms & Hybrid Maples (3.106945)
Date: 1985Type: Document
Description:Locations where elm and maple trees provided by the Morton Arboretum in 1985 were planted.
Extent: 3 sheets
1985-86 Members' Cooperative Research Program (3.106946)
Date: 1985Type: Document
Description:Draft list of trees and shrubs for the 1985-86 Members' Cooperative Research Program which includes nursery stock listings.
Extent: 8 sheets
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Autumn 1985 (3.107023)
Date: 1985Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Autumn 1985 Branches Newsletter features articles about: the decline of the Scotts and red pines plots and efforts by Plant Pathologist Dr. Tom Green and intern Sabine Huhndorf to discover the cause of pine wilt disease; and development of the Activity Arc to assist urban and suburban home gardeners with landscaping their properties. The Activity Arc includes the Ground Cover, Hedges, Dwarf Shrubs, Fragrant Plants, Roses and Woody Herbs gardens. Volunteer opportunities, educational opportunities and upcoming events are featured.
Extent: 4 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1985 (3.107024)
Date: 1985Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1985 Branches Newsletter contains articles about: Burr Reed Marsh, it's animal and plant life and the habitat of the marsh; Subtle Spring, or noticing the buds and flowers of trees; and the damage that deicing compounds can cause to plants and trees. Volunteer opportunities, educational opportunities and upcoming events are highlighted.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1985 (3.107025)
Date: 1985Creator: Kaskey, Marjorie, Stowell, Gladys
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1985 Branches Newsletter includes: an article on the history of the Sand Beds, which with the help of Tony Tyznik and Ray Schulenberg, were enlarged at this time using Lake Michigan Dune sand and plantings of cacti, bearberry, Paulownia or the empress tree and opuntia fragilis; an article about the original wild turkey flock started by the Godsalks in the 1960s and including an illustration of a wild turkey by Clarence Godstalk; and a feature on a Du Page county award given to the Arboretum for it's outstanding volunteer program. Educational and program opportunities, new volunteers and volunteer team features as well as upcoming volunteer opportunities are also included.
Extent: 6 pages
Preserving the Thornhill Hawthorns (3.10910)
Date: December 21 1984 – March 20 1985Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Article