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Abies concolor = [graphic] white fir / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24268)

Date: 1974
Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 46 x 68 cm.

Spruce Cones (3.24628)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.

Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:

[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]

Norway spruce -- Picea abies
Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
White spruce -- Picea glauca
White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera

[Original subhead (not included with art): FIR CONES are upright, with thin scales that fall off]

Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
White fir -- Abies concolor

[Original subhead (not included with art): LARCH CONES are stalked, thin-scaled]

European larch -- Larix decidua
Tamarack -- Larix laricina
Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis

Extent: 1 sheet

The Christmas Trees (3.24630)

Date: 1945
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of seven evergreen trees, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full trees with needle illustrations below divided into sections according to needles, twigs, and branches. The identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.

[Original header (not included with art): THE "CHRISTMAS TREES"]

Trees depicted, from left to right:

Norway spruce -- Picea abies
Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
White spruce -- Picea glauca
Hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
White fir -- Abies concolor
Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia

Extent: 1 sheet

Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24679)

Date: 1940s
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #7: White Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below with glued-on cutout of detailed needle illustration.

Tree stump #8: Douglas Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.

Tree stump #9: Japanese Yew
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and fruit images illustrated below.

Tree stump #10: False Cypress
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and cone images illustrated below.

Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Douglas Fir needles housed with art.

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.

Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout

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

Types of trees depicted:

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

The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 04 (3.34470)

Date: December 21 1974 – March 20 1975
Type: Serial
Description:

Site Changes and Root Damage: Some Problems with Oaks (49-53)
Diagnosing and Preventing Diebacks and Declines of Urban Trees: Lessons From Some Forest Counterparts (54-59)
Redbud, Cercis canadensis: Pea Family (Leguminosae) (60-61)
People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (62-63)
Of the Infirmities of Trees, & c. (64)

(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages

Abies concolor (White Fir), bark, branch

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