1954/01/23: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.101909)
Date: January 23 1954Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E Godshalk. Morton comments on Godshalk's very detailed January 14, 1954 letter. He is concerned that the list is too broad for the size of the present staff and equipment. Some projects might better fall to colleges or governmental experiment stations. he approves of the lawn project, to benefit golf courses and parks. Newton Drury, former head of the National Park System, now in charge of Beaches and Parks in California, visited. He mentioned other Californians working on developing smaller varieties of better known trees, suggesting some collaboration. He mentions the Porter-Cable trimmer, generator and a small cart to hook behind the tractor to move the generator.
Extent: 3 sheets
1954/02/02: Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.101910)
Date: February 2 1954Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Clarence E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton. He further explains the plans for Research Projects and the numbering framework they established to index the projects. It was purposely very broad to accommodate future ideas and plans. He cites examples, hinting at the possible future need for a plant pathologist on staff. They are experimenting with various rates of root cutting and girdling on ash, red oaks, and white oaks, also factoring in a variety of sizes of new holes for transplanting. He looks forward to hearing from Mr. Drury about California tree research. He details their plans for a small Field Day Project to encompass the Chicago area. Winter classes are being taught by Mrs. Watts, Nordine, Kammerer, Tyznik and Godshalk, with 175 attendees on Monday. Using Arboretum men, they planted 11 pine trees at his Lake Forest property, with more planned for Spring. Ted Smith asked for $3.50 for the planting work. A temporary workroom for Crowley and Tyznik was created at South Farm. Godshalk would like to purchase for his Wisconsin cabin, the 1929 Ford, and a small water heater and the heatilator that were salvaged from the old cottage in the bird sanctuary.
Extent: 3 sheets
1955/08/08: Sterling Morton to C. E. Godshalk (3.104957)
Date: August 8 1955Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to C.E. Godshalk saying he ran into Pearl Chase, and she had kind things to say about her visit with Godshalk. He encloses the article from the News-Press about Godshalk's talk; Morton thought it was excellent. The response to the talk makes Morton believe they are on the right track with their approach of sharing research that is applicable to the everyday homeowner. He hopes Godshalk had a successful trip up north. Morton is glad he was able to attend a few sessions at the conference and see the equipment. He went by Ott's hardware store to see the Gravely tractor they have for sale. It is in excellent shape. He will test it out to make sure it is working properly, and if so, will gift it to the Arboretum. If there is an infinite delay in shipping, they will go ahead and get a new machine. He says it was a pleasure having Godshalk with them, and he particularly enjoyed their drives. The record includes the newspaper clippings along with a short handwritten note.
Extent: 6 sheets
1955/08/12: [M. Van Rensselaer] to Sterling Morton (3.104959)
Date: August 12 1955Type: Document
Description:Letter from [M. Van Rensselaer] (Director, Saratoga Horticultural Foundation) expressing the appreciation of the members of the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboretums for making it possible for Clarence Godshalk to address their regional meeting. They were very complimentary about his talk. Godshalk and Mr. Hartman had the opportunity to spend several hours looking over the new horticultural buildings at California Polytechnic College. He also visited the Saratoga Horticultural Foundation, Carnegie Institution at Standford University, and the Agricultural Foundation in San Francisco. He is going to visit Newton Drury at the Institute of Forest Genetics.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/04/21: Sarah Zimmerman to C. E. Godshalk (3.84463)
Date: April 21 1952Creator: Zimmerman, Sarah
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sarah Zimmerman (Secretary to Mr. Newton B. Drury) to C. E. Godshalk telling Godshalk that they are sending by express the J. Sterling Morton tablet which at one time appeared on the J. Sterling Morton Sequoia. Drury (Chief, Division of Beaches and Parks, Sacramento, California) wrote to Mrs. Cudahy that he is sending the tablet to you and on his return will write Godshalk in detail regarding the matter.
Extent: 1 sheet
1955/08/15: C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton (3.84491)
Date: August 15 1955Creator: Godshalk, Clarence E.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from C. E. Godshalk to Sterling Morton describing his trip after the AABGA convention. He traveled to San Jose stopping at the Calif. Poly. Tech. Inst., the redwoods in Big Sur, and Mr. Hartman's nurseries in San Jose. The next day he visited the Saratoga Foundation seeing the work being done on improving plants. Mr. Raven took Godshalk to Stanford where they saw the plant physiology work being done there. He went on to San Francisco to the Agricultural Research Laboratories where the Arboretum has sent soil and plant samples to be analyzed. He spent the next day in Placerville where they are doing splendid work in hybridizing. On Wednesday, he went to the University of California fruit experiment station in Davis. He talks about the flame photometer being used there; Godshalk would like to get one for the Arboretum which they could use to compare Dutch elm trees. He suggests possibly using unused money in Morton's chairman's fund to purchase it. If they purchase the machine, he will send Mr. Crowley to Davis to learn how to best use it. He briefly updates him on work being done around the Arboretum. He's glad Morton and Mrs. Morton enjoyed his talk. He's grateful to the two of them for their hospitality in California. He'll get busy on testing the crawling sprinklers.
Extent: 4 sheets
1943/05/17: Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk (3.85108)
Date: May 17 1943Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to Clarence E. Godshalk informing him that Newton Drury, Director of the National Park Service will be visiting. Wayside Gardens of Mentor, Ohio will send samples of Berberis Mentorensis free of charge. He relates the winter damage to various shrubs.
Extent: 1 sheet