Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage (3.19489)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
Ulmus parvifolia [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24305)
Date: 1978Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 50 x 69 cm.
Ulmus japonica [graphic] Ulmus japonica x Ulmus wilsoniana Ulmus wilsoniana / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24306)
Date: 1982Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 48 x 59 cm.
Ulmus japonica fruit [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24359)
Date: 1982Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 33 x 28 cm.
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24659)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, 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 #18: Garter snake
Includes an illustration of a coiled garter snake to the right.
Tree stump #19: Bracken fern
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #20: Gravel pit
Three illustrations of a gravel pit labeled "1," "2," and "3" showing stages of vegetation regrowth over time.
Tree stump #21: Slime flux
Name of chronic bleeding from the side of an Elm tree. Identifying characteristics for Elm leaf illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Bewicks wren = [graphic] Troglodytes bewickii, Aud House wren = Troglodytes aedon, Viell. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24932)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2954)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2955)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots next to Administration Building being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (1) / Ian Garrard. (3.30231)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
Education charts: Developed Area Food Web (3.34240)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a development area food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
Header: DEVELOPED AREA
- TREE SWALLOW
- ROBIN
- EARTHWORM
- HOUSE MOSQUITO
- CHIPPING SPARROW
- CATERPILLAR
- RABBIT
- SCREECH OWL
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- ELM
- GARDEN PLANT
- HOUSE MOUSE
Note: Three of the organisms depicted at the top edge of the chart are slightly cut off, although the labels are still visible.
Extent: 1 slide
Tree Book (3.34244)
Type: Photographic image
Description:The cover of a booklet created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum titled "Tree Book," depicting simple outlines of three trees as well as a detailed leaf from each hand-drawn in crayon or colored pencil.
Title: TREE BOOK
Tree and leaf labels and images, left to right:
- Elm
- Red Oak
- Catalpa
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: table runner (3.34410)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A table runner made with thread dyed from elm, walnut, and birch.
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 01 (3.34508)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- After Elms - What? (1-7)
- European Alder, Black Alder. Alnus glutinosa: Birch Family (Betulaceae) (8-9)
- An Imported Problem: Dutch Elm Disease, 1918 to 1966 (10-12)
- Christmas Bird Census, 1965 (13-15)
- Climatological Summary (14)
- Arboretum News and Notes (16)
Extent: 16 pages
GRACEFUL bench in the elm (Ulmus) collection at The Morton Arboretum (3.36290)
Date: June 10 2013Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:The graceful, arching limbs and serrated leaf edge of the elm inspired the design of the GRACEFUL bench, located in the elm (Ulmus) collection at The Morton Arboretum. The bench’s corten base with arching supports mimic the elm's branch structure, while the wood back and seat--cut at varying lengths and assembled at right angles--evoke a folded leaf with a serrated edge.
Elms and Hawthorns (3.36825)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm and hawthorn trees near what appears to be a log cabin.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Tall elm on right bank of Lake Marmo (3.36889)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Tall elm on right bank of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 negative
Elm propagation, bags on tree (3.37443)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm propagation, bags on tree done by George Ware
Extent: 1 photograph
1999/01/05: Peter J. Bourne to George Ware (3.37494)
Date: January 5 1999Creator: Bourne, Peter J.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Peter J. Bourne to George Ware regarding the exchange of Ulmus (elm) seeds.
Extent: 2 sheets
1999/10/14: Gary Johnson to George Ware (3.37663)
Date: October 14 1999Creator: Johnson, Gary R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Gary Johnson of University of Minnesota to George Ware requesting specific whip-sized elms to help start a cooperative field evaluation project at the University of Minnesota.
Extent: 1 sheet
1996/11/11: Zhang Qinghua to George Ware (3.37851)
Date: November 11 1996Creator: Qinghua, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Zhang Qinghua to George Ware thanking him for money received and discussing seed lot germination, seed collection for Ulmus, as well as praising his success in experiments and his paper: Little Known Elms from China.
Extent: 1 sheet
2000/05/22: Zhang Qinghua to George Ware (3.37852)
Date: May 22 2000Creator: Qinghua, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:Note from Zhang Qinghua to George Ware discussing seed collection for various species of Ulmus, with a photocopy of a grower's license for W.A, (Bill) Gustafson, Jr. of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Extent: 2 sheets
2000/06/06: Zhang Qinghua to George Ware (3.37853)
Date: June 6 2000Creator: Qinghua, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:Note from Zhang Qinghua to George Ware concerning the collection of Populus species and difficulty with Ulmus due to the climate that year.
Extent: 1 sheet
1996/08/12: Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to George Ware (3.37856)
Date: August 12 1996Creator: Short Jr., Jeffrey R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to George Ware thanking him for his article on Little Known Elms from China and discussing trees and people of the Caucasus. Also contains two color photocopies of maps of the Caucasus region.
Extent: 4 sheets
1994/03/11: T. Davis Sydnor to George Ware (3.38204)
Date: March 11 1994Creator: Sydnor, T. Davis
Type: Document
Description:Letter from T. Davis Sydnor of Ohio State University concerning the identification of Celtis reticulata. Mr. Sydnor also asked for Mr. Ware's assistance in collecting seeds of Ulmus japonica and Ulmus wilsoniana which he would like to cultivate on campus.
Extent: 1 sheet
1999/08/27: Rob Greenland to George Ware (3.38212)
Date: August 27 1999Creator: Greenland, Rob
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Rob Greenland of Brighton & Hove to George Ware thanking him for his prompt response in regard to propagating elm seeds, sharing his paper "Little-known Elms from China", and also requesting copies of additional papers authored by George Ware.
Extent: 1 sheet
1999/06/06: Rob Greenland to George Ware (3.38213)
Date: June 6 1999Creator: Greenland, Rob
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Rob Greenland of Brighton & Hove to George Ware announcing his pleasure at receiving seeds for a variety of Ulmus, requesting additional information as to how to properly propagate them, and offering to reciprocate in kind.
Extent: 1 sheet
1986/05/27: Jeffry Morris to George Ware (3.38474)
Date: May 27 1986Creator: Morris, Jeffry
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffry Morris of Highclere, Inc. to George Ware thanking him for his help with elm trees in northern Fayette County.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/06/12: Randall J. Fox to George Ware (3.38477)
Date: June 12 1985Creator: Fox, Randall J.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Randall J. Fox of Arbor Lodge State Historical Park to George Ware asking for his assistance in planting newly developed hybrid elm trees in their park, Arbor Lodge State Historical Park in Nebraska, the home of J. Sterling Morton.
Extent: 1 sheet
1996/03/22: Lorenzo Mittempergher to George Ware (3.39945)
Date: March 22 1996Creator: Mittempergher, Lorenzo
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Lorenzo Mittemphergher, an elm breeder from the Insituto di Patalogia e Zoologia Forestale e Agraria in Firenze, Italy. The letter requests Ulmus seed from trees in the Arboretum, and references an enclosed article he co-authored, "Elm Yellows A Disease To Be Taken Into Consideration When Breeding Elm For Disease Resistance" published in the 8th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union, Agadir - Morocco, 1990. There are also handwritten notes on a notepad listing several varieties of Ulmus.
Extent: 4 sheets, 1 notepad
1997/07/29: Lorenzo Mittempergher to George Ware (3.39958)
Date: July 29 1997Creator: Mittempergher, Lorenzo
Type: Document
Description:Printed email from Lorenzo Mittempergher to George Ware thanking him for the elm accessions and conveying issues with trying to get these species to grow in his country [Italy].
Extent: 1 sheet
1995/09/21: George T. Weick to George Ware (3.44150)
Date: September 21 1995Creator: Weick, George T.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George T. Weick to George Ware discussing two articles, one from The Chicago Tribune and the other from the Christian Science Monitor. Both articles discuss Dutch Elm Disease. A copy of the article from the Christian Science Monitor titled "America's Tree" is enclosed with the letter. George Weick also inquires about George Ware's trip to China.
Extent: 2 sheets
1999/05/16: Yiquin Xin to George Ware (3.44548)
Date: May 16 1999Creator: Xin, Yiqun
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Yiqun Xin of Shandong University in China to George Ware discussing sending Ulmus macrocarpa seeds from the city of Jinan and Ulmus glaucescens and Ulmus pumila seeds from the Shandong province.
Extent: 1 sheet
1999/03/02: Yiqun Xin to George Ware (3.44549)
Date: March 2 1999Creator: Xin, Yiqun
Type: Document
Description: Letter from Yiqun Xin to George Ware discussing the pleasure of meeting him at the Elm International Conference, asking if he will be at the 1999 World Horticultural Gardening Fair, and discussing exchanging seeds for Ulmus marocarpa, Ulmus alata, and Ulmus thomasii.
Extent: 1 sheet
Undated: Peter [Wang] to George Ware (3.44614)
Creator: Wang, Peter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Peter [Wang] to George Ware discussing possible Chinese names for a new variety of Elm.
Extent: 1 sheet
Undated: Peter [Wang] to George Ware (3.44616)
Creator: Wang, Peter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Peter [Wang] to George Ware discussing new Chinese names for elms and pines.
Extent: 1 sheet