Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Through a Magnifying Glass (3.24609)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of lichens, flowers, buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds of various plants, created to accompany "Through A Magnifying Glass" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes descriptive text next to each plant image.
Plants depicted in three sections, from left to right, top to bottom:
Section 1: There are lichens in the spruce plot,
- Pixie cups -- Cladonia chlorophaea
- British soldiers -- Cladonia cristatella
- Awl lichen -- Cladonia coniocraea
- Vernal Witch hazel -- Hamamelis vernalis
- A magnolia bud wears deep velvet
- The persistent leaves of bayberry are copper and rose underneath, set with amber globules
- Butternut buds wear camels' faces
- Birch seeds and the scales of their cones play several variations on the same theme, including European white, gray, cherry, and river
- Queen Anne's lace has design in its "bird-nest" seed heads
- Spore capsules of mosses show many patterns. This one is Funaria hygrometrica, with a seta that twists and untwists with changing humidity
- A buckeye bud may reveal a flower cluster and several leaves
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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 mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
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 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, #2 (3.34234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
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
Betula pendula (European White Birch), bark, mature (3.64692)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), bark, mature
Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, lateral (3.64693)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, lateral
Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, terminal (3.64694)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, terminal
Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, terminal (3.64695)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), bud, terminal
Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, lower surface (3.64696)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, lower surface
Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer (3.64697)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer
Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer (3.64698)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer
Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer (3.64699)
Date: August 10 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, summer
Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64700)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (European White Birch), leaf, upper surface
Betula pendula, habitat (3.85235)
Date: August 23 2016Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pendula (PCC16-GE33) collected during the 2016 PCC Expedition to Georgia. Peter Zale is in the foreground. From Georgia, Kakheti, Tusheti Natural Reserve. At end of unnamed road running along Pirikita Alazani River, ca. 1.5 air kilometers SE of Chesho. 42.46852N, 045.55086E, 1902 m.