1986/11/05: Fay Hinton to George Ware (3.100781)
Date: November 5 1986Type: Document
Description:Final figures on 1986 Members' Cooperative Research Program showing the number of members participating, species and number of plants given, and income from the activity.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/05/20: Daniel A. Baffa to George Ware (3.100806)
Date: May 20 1986Creator: Baffa, Daniel A.
Type: Document
Description:A request for trees from Daniel A. Baffa, Park and Zoo Director, for Garden City, KS to George Ware.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/05/14: George Kolar to George Ware (3.100807)
Date: May 14 1986Creator: Kolar, George
Type: Document
Description:A list of addresses in LaGrange Park, IL where elm trees provided by The Morton Arboretum were planted.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/11/25: Richard P. Hohs to George Ware (3.100864)
Date: November 25 1986Creator: Hohs, Richard P.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Richard P. Hohs, Superintendent of Parks for Morton Grove, IL, to George Ware requesting information on elms.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/11/21: Jan Wm. Verkaik to George Ware (3.100865)
Date: November 21 1986Creator: Verkaik, Jan Wm.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jan Wm. Verkaik of the City of Hammond, IN to George Ware requesting information on disease resistant elm trees, based on an article in the Engineering News Record
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/03/07: Valerie Pafford to George Ware (3.100871)
Date: March 7 1986Creator: Pafford, Valerie W.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Valerie W. Pafford with the University of Georgia, College of Agriculture, Cooperative Extension Service to George Ware correcting return address information
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/03/13: Dr. C. R. Jasiek to George Ware (3.100875)
Date: March 13 1986Creator: Jasiek, Dr. C. R.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Dr. C. R. Jasiek, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Illinois Valley Community College, requesting plant stock, including Siberian Elms, for a campus arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/02/28: Doris L. Baird to George Ware (3.100876)
Date: February 28 1986Creator: Baird, Doris L.
Type: Document
Description:A thank you letter for a hybrid elm tree.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/02/25: Joan Hall to George Ware (3.100877)
Date: February 25 1986Creator: Hall, Joan
Type: Document
Description:A thank you letter for hybrid elm to be shipped to Phipps Garden Apartments, Long Island City, NY.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/03/25: R. J. Galiardo to George Ware (3.100878)
Date: March 25 1986Creator: Galiardo, R. J.
Type: Document
Description:A request from Tate Woods School, Lisle, IL, for two trees and assistance with Arbor Day planting ceremonies
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/03/04: W. C. Miller to George Ware (3.100879)
Date: March 4 1986Creator: Miller, W. C.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from W.C. Miller to George Ware requesting an Elm tree.
1986/02/05: Jeffry Morris to George Ware (3.100880)
Date: February 5 1986Creator: Morris, Jeffry
Type: Document
Description:A letter requesting hybrid elms for Highclere thoroughbred horse farm in Lexington, KY.
Extent: 1 sheet
Aralia chinensis L. (Chinese angelica tree), branches (3.100989)
Date: October 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aralia chinensis L. (Chinese angelica tree), view of a small tree, with leaves turning a rusty red color, and several plumes of reddish flowers at branch terminals.
Extent: 1 slide
Aralia chinensis L. (Chinese angelica tree), flowers and leaves on branches (3.100993)
Date: November 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aralia chinensis L. (Chinese angelica tree), view of a blooming Aralia, with a huge reddish pink cloud of flowers, enveloped by the tree's large bipinnate leaflets. A close inspection of the photo will reveal the tiny prickles covering the branches,
Extent: 1 slide
Arctostaphylos stanfordiana Parry (Stanford's manzanita), branches with flowers and leaves (3.101102)
Date: February 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Arctostaphylos stanfordiana Parry (Stanford's manzanita), view from above of a dense stand of manzanita in bloom.
Extent: 1 slide
Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott (Jack-in-the-pulpit), inflorescence (3.101119)
Date: May 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott (Jack-in-the-pulpit), stunning silhouette of a single Jack-in-the-Pulpit inflorescence. The spadix can be seen rising just above the encasing spathe, which then swoops around the spadix dramatically, exposing the deep purple and green venation of the hood.
Extent: 1 slide
Arisaema dracontium (green dragon), spathe (3.101125)
Date: May 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arisaema dracontium (green dragon), view of a tightly furled spathe, rising directly out of the forest leaf litter.
Extent: 1 slide
1986/03/11: R. W. Koch to George Ware (3.101310)
Date: March 11 1986Creator: Koch, R. W.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from R. W. (Bob) Koch to George Ware concerning an Accolade Elm for planting in Naperville Cemetery.
Extent: 1 sheet
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) A. Löve & D. Löve (branching aster), close-up of flowers (3.104045)
Date: February 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) A. Löve & D. Löve (branching aster), close-up of flowers: bluish gray flowers with rosy or white center disk flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) A. Löve & D. Löve (branching aster), close-up of flowers (3.104047)
Date: February 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Symphyotrichum lateriflorum (L.) A. Löve & D. Löve (branching aster), close-up of flowers: purple tinged ray flowers with yellow and reddish disc flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), habit (3.104167)
Date: June 6 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), habit; shrubby, mounding plant; silvery leaves; yellow flower spikes; male.
Extent: 1 slide
Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), close-up of stem with flowers (3.104168)
Date: June 6 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), close-up of stem with flowers; hairy stems with silvery leaves; flower spikes with yellow flowers.
Extent: 1 slide
Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), close-up of stem with flowers (3.104169)
Date: June 1986Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Atriplex canescens (Pursh) James (hoary saltbush), close-up of stem with flowers; hairy stems with silvery leaves; flower spikes with yellow flowers.
Extent: 1 slide
Atriplex patula L. (spear saltbush), stem with fruit (3.104171)
Date: November 1986Type: Photographic image
Description:Atriplex patula L. (spear saltbush), stem with fruit; other foliage in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
Baccharis halimifolia L. (groundsel-tree), habit (3.105133)
Date: October 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis halimifolia L. (groundsel-tree), upright and drooping habit, white flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Baccharis halimifolia L. (groundsel-tree), mature flowers (3.105134)
Date: October 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Baccharis halimifolia L. (groundsel-tree) mature, white flowers
Extent: 1 slide
Betula pumila (bog birch), male catkins and newly emerging leaves (3.105459)
Date: May 1986Creator: Dritz, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pumila (bog birch), male catkins and newly emerging leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Betula pumila (bog birch), male catkin (3.105461)
Date: May 1986Creator: Dritz, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula pumila (bog birch), male catkin hanging from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Soil Map of The Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration (3.106152)
Date: 1980 – circa 1990Type: Map
Description:Numbered sections refer to soil series on the Prairie Restoration at The Morton Arboretum, later named the Schulenberg Prairie. Key identifies number and name of soil series as well as the slope class.
Extent: 1 sheet
Invoice for plants purchased from forrest Keeling Nursery in Elsberry, MO (3.106949)
Date: October 2 1986Type: Document
Description:Invoice for plants with ok to pay from George Ware.
Extent: 1 sheet
Top-of-the-Crop Field-grown Seedlings, mostly two-year (3.106954)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1986Type: Document
Description:A list of seedlings available from Forrest Keeling Nursery in Elsberry, MO.
Extent: 3 sheets, two-sided
Deicing Salt and Heavy Metal dispersion from an Urban Expressway onto Long-Undisturbed Ecosystems in Northern Illinois, U.S.A. (3.106964)
Date: 1986Creator: Patrick, Kelsey, Hootman, Rick
Type: Document
Description:A report on aerial deposition and soil concentration of Na, Pb, Cd, Cu and Zn in an area of Morton Arboretum adjacent to an expressway.
Extent: 6 sheets
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Autumn 1986 (3.107026)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Autumn 1986 Branches Newsletter features: an article on the selection and creation of the computer system for the files of the live and dead plants at the Arboretum, including volunteers Jack Pfister and Randy Herber who mentored and guided the process; the volunteer recognition for that year; and an article on the Visitors Center dedicated in 1973 in honor of Sophia Preston Owsky Morton, designed by architect Arthur Myhrum and commissioned by Suzette Morton Zurcher (later Davidson); the staff at the Visitors Center are also featured in some detail. Educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities and new volunteers are also featured.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1986 (3.107027)
Date: 1986Creator: Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1986 Branches Newsletter features the following articles: the battle against the Eastern Tent Caterpillars using a team of volunteers to avoid spraying; wildflowers at the Arboretum including the Wild Garden at the Outpost; Ray Schulenberg's, Curator of Collections, process of adding and locating plants in the Arboretum in tandem with Tony Tyznik. Upcoming educational and volunteer opportunities are included as well as new and featured volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1986 (3.107028)
Date: 1986Creator: Stowell, Gladys
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1986 Branches Newsletter features articles on; the establishment of the Woody Herb Garden with the help of volunteer Bonnie Paulson, waste water treatment at the Arboretum, the monitoring of the lakes and ponds at the Arboretum in conjunction wit the Illinois EPA and the establishment of new geographic collections in Sargent's Glade consisting of plants of the Pacific Northwest, the Rockies and the Southwest. Upcoming events and activities at the Arboretum are featured along with volunteer opportunities and a feature on new volunteers.
Extent: 6 pages