Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit (3.24626)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of variety of leaves, buds, plant habits and bark, created to accompany " Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes identifying illustrations of source trees and identifying text in pen and ink.
Divided into five sections, from top to bottom, left to right:
1) FRAGRANCE IN BRUISED LEAVES
- Sweetbriar - fragrance of green apple sauce
- Sweet shrub - scent of strawberries
- Fragrant sumac - aromatic with a trace of lemon
- Bayberry - aromatic with a hint of balsam
- Mother-of-thyme - fragrant, with a suggestion of new lumber
- Jeffrey pine - a sharp tang of orange peel
- Arbor vitae - in hot sun a smell of "wild strawberries with a hint of resin" - Wilder
- Balsam fir - aromatic and spicy
- Sweet cicely - odor of anise, or licorice
- Sassafras - "fragrance of lemon and a thousand spices" - Thoreau
- Sweet bay - a culinary fragrance reminiscent of soups and stews
- Spice-bush - smooth aroma of mingled spices
- Hay-scented fern - fragrance of new-mown hay
- Sweet fern - resinous and spicy
- Southernwood - smooth sweet fragrance
- Chaste tree - mint with a hint of spice
- Cherry birch - cool, smooth flavor of wintergreen
- Yellow birch - mild taste of wintergreen
- Black cherry - taste of bitter almond
- Slippery elm - inner bark pleasantly mucilaginous
- Juniper - a pleasant aromatic taste
- Sumac - a berry on the tongue gives a taste of "Indian lemonade"
- Balm of gilead - resinous and strongly aromatic
- Flowering quince - good to put in a pocket, or with hankerchiefs
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
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 14 illustrations and layout (3.24671)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 14, excluding most text, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #39: A Mature Sugar Maple
Identifying characteristics of mature sugar maple bark illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #40: From a Bird's Viewpoint
Identifying characteristics of Hawthorn leaf, flower, and fruit illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #41: Wild Strawberry
Identifying characteristics of three leaflet leaf and flower and Five Finger or Cinquefoil five leaflet leaf and flower illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #42: A Girdling Experiment
Typewritten text describing ash tree girdling glued to center panel, and illustration of girdled trunk to the right.
Tree stump #43: OO-HOOSH-AB--"It Slips"
Illustration of a hand holding a Slippery Elm leaf and a small drawing of a man's face with stubble to illustrate the "unshaven" feel of the leaves and twigs.
Extent: 1 Sheet
Leaf Prints: Slippery Elm (3.27689)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of slippery elm leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Elm slippery
- Ulmus rubra
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees Native To This Region (3.33823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of hill with several types of trees growing down its slope. The trees are drawn in silhouette and are grouped into four categories based on location. 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 NATIVE TO THIS REGION
- THE COLOR LINE OVER EACH TREE / INDICATES ITS CHARACTERISTIC / FALL COLORING. NATIVE TREES / GIVE US THE BEST COLOR
- TREES OF OUR UPLANDS
- witch-hazel -- white oak -- red oak -- Hill's oak -- sugar maple -- ironwood -- shadbush -- shagbark hickory -- black cherry -- blue ash -- bur oak -- white ash -- linden
- TREES of the EDGE of the FOREST
- aspen -- sumac -- choke cherry -- wild crabapple -- hawthorn -- wild plum
- TREES of our LOWLANDS
- black ash -- slippery elm -- American elm -- walnut -- hackberry -- cottonwood -- black willow -- silver maple
- TREES of our SWAMPS
- [sour gum] tupelo -- yellow birch -- tamarack -- red maple -- poison sumac
Extent: 1 sheet
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, mature (3.64412)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, mature
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, trunk (3.64413)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, trunk
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, trunk (3.64414)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, trunk
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig (3.64415)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig (3.64416)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig (3.64417)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bark, twig
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, flower (3.64418)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, flower
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, flower (3.64419)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, flower
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral (3.64420)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral (3.64421)
Date: October 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral (3.64422)
Date: October 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, lateral
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, terminal (3.64423)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, terminal
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, terminal (3.64424)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), bud, terminal
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature (3.64425)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature (3.64426)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature (3.64427)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), fruit, mature
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, fall (3.64428)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, fall
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, spring (3.64429)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, spring
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, winter (3.64430)
Date: March 17 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), habit, winter
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), infructescence (3.64431)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), infructescence
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, lower surface (3.64432)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, lower surface
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, lower surface (3.64433)
Date: October 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, lower surface
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring (3.64434)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring (3.64435)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring (3.64436)
Date: May 17 2018Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, spring
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface (3.64437)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface (3.64438)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface (3.64439)
Date: October 6 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface
Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface (3.64440)
Date: October 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ulmus rubra (Slippery Elm), leaf, upper surface
Matt Lobdell with Ulmus rubra, North Carolina (3.85356)
Date: March 15 2018Creator: Shearer, Kim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Matt Lobdell by a fruiting Ulmus rubra near Fines Creek, North Carolina, US.