Apple serviceberry = Amelanchier x grandiflora / Ruth Dreier. (3.29545)
Date: 1989Creator: Dreier, Ruth
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 photomechanical print (catalog cover) : colored 29 x 23 cm.
Trees Native To This Region (3.33823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of hill with several types of trees growing down its slope. The trees are drawn in silhouette and are grouped into four categories based on location. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO THIS REGION
- THE COLOR LINE OVER EACH TREE / INDICATES ITS CHARACTERISTIC / FALL COLORING. NATIVE TREES / GIVE US THE BEST COLOR
- TREES OF OUR UPLANDS
- witch-hazel -- white oak -- red oak -- Hill's oak -- sugar maple -- ironwood -- shadbush -- shagbark hickory -- black cherry -- blue ash -- bur oak -- white ash -- linden
- TREES of the EDGE of the FOREST
- aspen -- sumac -- choke cherry -- wild crabapple -- hawthorn -- wild plum
- TREES of our LOWLANDS
- black ash -- slippery elm -- American elm -- walnut -- hackberry -- cottonwood -- black willow -- silver maple
- TREES of our SWAMPS
- [sour gum] tupelo -- yellow birch -- tamarack -- red maple -- poison sumac
Extent: 1 sheet
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets
[Planting plans for the] Rhamnus Group, Rhus Group, Amelanchier Group, Euonymus, Rutaceae [and] Tamarix (3.5645)
Date: October 1924Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Four schematic plans are contained on the sheet, with no indication given as to location within the Arboretum. The Amelanchier group planting plan was developed further in 1926, titled Amelanchier Group [and Berberis Groups, Planting Plan].
Extent: 1 sheet
Amelanchier Group [and Berberis Groups, Planting Plan] (3.5656)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1926Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:The schematic planting plan was first developed in 1924, in the [Planting plans for the] Rhamnus group, Rhus group, Amelanchier group, Euonymus, Rutaceae and Tamarix]. No indication is given as to location within the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet