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Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Winter 1986 (3.107029)
Date: 1986Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1986 Branches Newsletter features articles about: berm building along the new north/south tollway to mitigate sound and air pollution, the Outpost hosting 5th grade classes from local Montessori schools for the resident program and the health and survival of plants at the Arboretum as they overwinter. Upcoming events, classes and a special training based on the new Volunteer Handbook are highlighted.
Extent: ;6 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1986 (3.113783)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a talk by Dr. Gary Watson, the Arboretum's root specialist, discussing the importance of roots and a look at a Victorian Christmas with Sunny O'Neil. Field trips included birding along Chicago's lakefront, a waterfowl fall migration in the Palos area, and a trip to the Indiana Dunes. Charles Lewis and Dr. Herbert Schroeder, Environmental Psychologist with the US Forest Service, were participating in an exchange research trip to The Netherlands to establish joint projects.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Spring 1986 (3.113784)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Spring 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as lectures about Tuberous Begonias and plants for troublesome spots. A future trip to Kenya for a field seminar was announced. Field trips include Starved Rock State Park, Warren Woods, and Mississippi Palisades State Park. A field seminar on English gardens and landscapes also took place. The Arboretum announced that library staff would begin cataloging and indexing the rare book collection to make it more accessible.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Summer 1986 (3.113785)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Summer 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as the annual fish boil and a concert by Marshall Vente/Project Nine Plus with Anna Dawson. Bob Thomson, host of the popular syndicated PBS program "The Victory Garden", visited with the horticulture staff, and Robert W. Little, noted author, artist, and teacher, was to present a special lecture. Field trips included birding at Ryerson Conservation Area in Deerfield.
Extent: 5 pages
Events, News, & Classes: Winter 1986 (3.113786)
Date: 1986Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Winter 1986 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as a discussion on the "The Romance of Botanical Names" and "Resource Conservation in an Urban Environment". There was a field trip to watch bald eagles in Savanna, IL. Charles A. Lewis, the Arboretum's Collections Group Administrator, was honored with the G.B. Gunslogson Medal for "the creative use of home gardening in benefiting people-plant relationships and the future of American life" from the American Horticultural Society. The woody plant collections were to be computerized. A new maple, 'Marmo', was introduced. Members were also encourage to write Lt. Governor George Ryan to advocate for the development of a lake on the Danada Forrest Preserve as part of the Briarcliff Flood Control Program.
Ground cover junipers for the Chicago area (3.31517)
Date: December 21 1986 – March 20 1987Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), twig with leaves in fall (3.37035)
Date: November 3 1986Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ginkgo biloba (ginkgo), twigs with golden leaves in fall
Extent: 1 slide
Acer campestre (hedge maple), leaves showing fall color (3.37239)
Date: October 26 1986Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer campestre (hedge maple), leaves with yellow fall color on branch
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell with two staff wrapping tree root ball with burlap and string (3.59095)
Date: March 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell with two staff wrapping tree root ball with burlap and string
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell and two others preparing young trees for transfer, digging and wrapping burlap around root ball (3.59126)
Date: April 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell and two others preparing young trees for transfer, digging and wrapping burlap around root ball
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell and coworker covering newly planted tree with soil (3.61959)
Date: March 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell and coworker covering newly planted tree with soil
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell with two staff wrapping tree root ball with burlap and string (3.61960)
Date: March 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell with two staff wrapping tree root ball with burlap and string
Extent: 1 slide
Kris Bachtell and Doris Taylor wrapping bare trees in nursery for transplanting (3.61961)
Date: March 1986Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Kris Bachtell and Doris Taylor wrapping bare trees in nursery for transplanting
Extent: 1 slide
Amelanchier xgrandiflora Rehder (apple serviceberry), close-up of red fall leaves (3.83455)
Date: October 26 1986Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Photographic image
Description:Amelanchier xgrandiflora Rehder (apple serviceberry), close-up of red fall leaves
Extent: 1 slide