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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 13 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24687)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 13, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #31: 'Evergreens' that are not Evergreen
Tree stump #32: European Larch
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles below.
Tree stump #33: Arbor Vitae
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone below.
Tree stump #34: Bald Cypress
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of leaves and cone below.
Single cutout illustration depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Arborvitae alongside Lake Road (3.3088)
Date: 1933Creator: Streator, Sidney V.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arborvitae alongside Lake Road
Extent: 1 photograph
Arborvitaes along Lake Road, south side of Lake Marmo (3.31928)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Arborvitaes along Lake Road, south side of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 photograph
Arbor vitaes along Lake Road with overhead tree branches in foreground, south side Lake Marmo (3.31929)
Date: 1950sType: Photographic image
Description:Arbor vitaes along Lake Road with overhead tree branches in foreground- south side Lake Marmo.
Extent: 1 photograph
Approaching arborvitaes along Lake Road on south side of Lake Marmo in winter (3.31930)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Approaching arborvitaes along Lake Road on south side of Lake Marmo in winter
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Lake Road along south side of Lake Marmo looking east in winter (3.32744)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Lake Road along south side of Lake Marmo looking east in winter
Hemlock Hill on right, Arbor vitae straight ahead
Extent: 1 negative
Arborvitae alongside Lake Road, south side of Lake Marmo (3.32747)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Arborvitae alongside Lake Road, south side of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 negative
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Lake Marmo, looking west from bridge toward Arborvitae Point (3.33961)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Lake Marmo, looking west from bridge toward Arborvitae Point
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Looking west across Lake Marmo at Arbor Vitae and maple in center (3.34020)
Date: 1920 – 1939Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking west from just north of present bridge across Lake Marmo at arborvitae and maple in center.
Extent: 1 negative filmstrip
Education charts: Canyon (3.34224)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a rock canyon association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: CANYON
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- mud-dauber wasp
- phoe[be]
- arbor- / vitae
- columbine
- garter snak[e]
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit (3.34367)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit featuring wood from 18 different trees and its uses. The display is configured in four concentric circles centered around a spinning cross: the inner circle depicts tree silhouettes, the next circle depicts detailed images of leaves, the third consists of square panels of processed wood, and the outer circle consists of dioramas depicting how each type of wood is used.
The cross is labeled as follows:
- TREE SHAPE
- LEAF [red arrow]
- WOOD
- USES
- TURN THE RED ARROW TO A LEAF / THE OTHER ARMS WILL POINT TO: / the shape of the tree / a piece of wood from the tree / some uses for the wood
- WHITE ASH
- ARBOR VITAE
- WHITE SPRUCE
- SWEET GUM
- SUGAR MAPLE
- AMERICAN LINDEN
- CHERRY
- TULIP TREE
- BALD CYPRESS
- IRONWOOD
- WHITE PINE
- BLACK WALNUT
- AMERICAN ELM
- SHAGBARK HICKORY
- WHITE OAK
- RED OAK
- EASTERN HEMLOCK
- PONDEROSA PINE
Extent: 1 slide
Uses of Wood Exhibit: Arborvitae (3.34378)
Date: September 4 1974Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:A diorama from the Uses of Wood exhibit, depicting an example of how arborvitae wood is used in items such as fence posts and railroad ties.
Extent: 1 slide