January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
Spring Wild Flowers of the Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum: A Key To Identification, page 4 (3.24618)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of wild flowers with identification text, key on left and habitat border of leaves on right, created to accompany "Spring Wild Flowers Of The Forest Floor At The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Illustrations and identifying text depicted, from top to bottom:
- White baneberry -- Actaea alba
- Bloodroot -- Sanguinaria canadensis
- May-apple -- Podophyllum peltatum
- Wild columbine -- Aquilegia canadensis
- Wild strawberry -- Fragaria virginiana
- Cinquefoil -- Potentilla canadensis
- Small-flowered crowfoot -- Ranunculus abortivus
- Swamp buttercup -- Ranunculus septentrionalis
- Blue cohosh -- Caulophyllum thalictroides
- Toothwort -- Dentaria laciniata
- Spring cress -- Cardamine bulbosa
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
Leaf Prints: Redbud (3.27734)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of redbud leaves, stems, buds, flowers, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Redbud
- Cercis canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Redbud (3.31788)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Redbud tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and drawings of seeds, a winter twig, and flower.
Header: REDBUD
Drawings, from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- seeds
- tree
- twig
- flower
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Redbud (3.31823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a redbud tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and a drawing of a seed pod. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- b
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Education charts: Washington, D.C. (3.34223)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a Washington, D.C. 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: WASHINGTON D.C.
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- moutain laurel
- purple mountain
- holly
- flying squirrel
- flowering dogwood / red-bud
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees and vines (3.34249)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, stems, and flowers from trees and vines found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Redbud
- Paw-paw
- Cross Vine
- Catalpa
- Dutchman's / Pipe / Vine
Extent: 1 slide
Cercis canadensis L. (redbud), branches with fruit (3.73488)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Cercis canadensis L. (redbud), branches with pods, fruit is a true pod (legume) green before ripening