Vernal Witch-hazel (3.19477)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of the Vernal witch-hazel plant, including three detailed views and some descriptive text. Background sketches include trees at top and center, and shrubs at center and bottom.
Header: VERNAL WITCH-HAZEL, HAMAMELIS vernalis
Illustrations as depicted, from top to bottom, left to right:
- a single pistil, labeled PISTIL
- two stamens, front view and side view, labeled STAMEN
- a single twig in bloom
- a flower
Extent: 1 sheet
Clematis paniculata [graphic] Hamamelis vernalis Rosa rugosa 'Delicata' / N.S.H. (3.24542)
Date: 1987Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : graphite, pen and ink, b&w 36 x 28 cm.
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
1997/06/17: Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn (3.57412)
Date: June 17 1997Creator: Short Jr., Jeffrey R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffrey R. Short, Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn providing his thoughts on the success or failure of various tree species received from the Morton Arboretum. Included with the letter are two completed Members' Cooperative Research Program evaluation forms from Jeffrey Short listing when the trees were purchased from the Arboretum and their current condition. Dr. George Ware is cc'd in the letter.
Extent: 3 sheets
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66435)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66436)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66437)
Date: June 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66438)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66439)
Date: January 6 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66440)
Date: January 6 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66441)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch (3.66442)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, branch
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66443)
Date: January 6 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66444)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66445)
Date: March 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66446)
Date: March 8 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66447)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66448)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66449)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66450)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66451)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk (3.66452)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, trunk
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig (3.66453)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig (3.66454)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig (3.66455)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig (3.66456)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bark, twig
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66457)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66458)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66459)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66460)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66461)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66462)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower (3.66463)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, flower
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral (3.66464)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral (3.66465)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral
Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral (3.66466)
Date: April 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Hamamelis vernalis (Vernal Witch-hazel), bud, lateral