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Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 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. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet