Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Platanus occidentalis [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24590)
Date: 1967Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters (3.24608)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting four groups of staminate and pistillate flowers with associated outline of six trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Clusters
Illustrations are separated into four sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Flowers on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
(depicted from left to right)
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- American elm -- Ulmus americana
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
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
Summer or wood duck = [graphic] Anas sponsa / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.25015)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 100 x 68 cm.
Leaf Prints: Sycamore (3.27741)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of sycamore leaves, stems, and a twig with a bud on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sycamore
- Platanus occidentalis
Extent: 1 sheet
Holiday / T.M. Cleland. (3.29455)
Creator: Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : halftone photomechanical, color 58 x 77 cm.
Romance / T.M. Cleland. (3.29456)
Creator: Cleland, T. M. (Thomas Maitland), 1880-1964.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : halftone photomechanical, color 58 x 77 cm.
Trees of Britain and Northern Europe : Broad-leaved trees (2) / Ian Garrard. (3.30232)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
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: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees (3.34250)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting drawings of various leaves, stems, flowers, and fruit from trees found in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Sycamore
- [M]agnolia
- [S]assafrass
- Persimmon
- Beech
- Hackberry
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 03 No. 04 (3.34553)
Date: December 21 1967 – March 20 1968Type: Serial
Description:
- The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution (49-53)
- Winter Injury (54-58)
- Climatological Summary (57)
- The Lookout (59)
- Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Sycamore Family (Platanaceae) (60-61)
- Arboretum News and Notes (62)
- Three Year Index: 1965-1967 (62-64)
Extent: 16 pages
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore) (3.37398)
Date: September 1952Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore)
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore,) in river (3.37399)
Date: April 12 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tree growing in Ohio River along cliffside at Cave-in-Rock
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with buds (3.37405)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of single twig with buds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bud at end of twig (3.37406)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of shiny, dark brown bud and scar at end of single twig
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig and lateral bud (3.37407)
Date: April 2 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of single twig with lenticels and one pointy lateral bud
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), lateral bud on twig (3.37408)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of one reddish-brown lateral bud and scar on stout twig
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bark (3.37409)
Date: March 1967Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of gray-brown flaky scales and mottled bark
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), hanging fruit and flower balls with leaves on twigs (3.37410)
Date: March 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with several hanging red and green flower balls, brown seed heads and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), flower ball and leaves (3.37411)
Date: June 1972Creator: Kohout, Kitty, Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single hanging green flower ball and detail of broadly toothed bright green leaf and pale green underleaves
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), diseased twigs and leaves (3.37412)
Date: August 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description: Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), diseased twigs and leaves with brown patches along veins and tips
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), hanging fruit and flower balls with leaves on twigs (3.37413)
Date: May 1971Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), twig with several hanging red and green flower balls, brown seed heads and leaves
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single seed head hanging from twig with buds (3.37414)
Date: May 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description: Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), single yellow seed head on long stalk hanging from twig with buds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and stalks (3.37415)
Date: January 1974Creator: Skupien, L.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two spiky yellow ball-like seed heads and stalks
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and seeds (3.37416)
Date: October 1972Creator: Reynolds, P. J.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), three yellow ball-like seed heads and detail of seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seed heads and seeds (3.37417)
Date: March 1969Creator: Curns, B.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), two ball-like seed heads and stalks, one cross-section cutaway seed head showing detail of attached seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), seeds (3.37418)
Date: 1980sCreator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), detail of seeds on ground
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore) (3.37419)
Date: October 1973Creator: Stickney, William S.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), near road and utlity pole with cables
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare treetops (3.37420)
Date: February 25 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), bare treetops
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), summer (3.37421)
Date: August 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), near paved path in summer
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), summer (3.37422)
Date: August 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), in summer
Extent: 1 slide
Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), winter (3.37423)
Date: January 2000Creator: Boland, Tim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Platanus occidentalis (sycamore), tall bare tree in winter
Extent: 1 slide