The Edge of the Forest (3.24604)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of thirteen different trees and plants of the forest edge, created to accompany "The Edge of the Forest" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show species-specific seeds, flowers, trees, leaves, twigs and stems for each plant in columns and rows across the page. Some identifying text exists. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
Header: THE EDGE of the FOREST
- includes generalized sketch of trees and other plants across the top
- Bird-distributed seeds
- Bee-pollenated flowers
- Protection from Grazers
- Armor
- Bitter Taste
- Rosa setigera -- Prairie rose
- Prunus americana -- Wild plum
- Rosa carolina -- Pasture rose
- Malus ioensis -- Wild crab
- Crataegus punctata -- Dotted hawthorn
- Rubus alligheniensis -- Blackberry
- Rubus occidentalis -- Blackcap raspberry
- Rhus glabra -- Smooth sumac
- Ribes cynosbati -- Gooseberry
- Cornus racemosa -- Gray dogwood
- Prunus virginiana -- Choke cherry
- Sambucus canadensis -- Elderberry
- Prunus serotina -- Black cherry
Extent: 1 sheet
From a Summer Meadow (3.24613)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of various meadow leaves, seeds, and flowers with descriptive text next to each image, created to accompany "Let's Look At A Meadow" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Header: From A Summer Meadow
Illustrations are divided into three sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1 - LEAVES with protection (depicted from left to right)
- from a too thristy sun
- Queen Anne's lace - reduced surface
- Prickly lettuce - compass habit
- Milkweed - milky juice
- Mullein (overlapped in next section) - felty covering
- from hungry cattle
- Mullein (overlapped in previous section) - felty covering
- Yarrow - bitter taste
- Thistle - spines
- by air
- Milkweed
- Fleabane
- Goatsbeard
- Thistle
- Dandelion
- by fur
- Barbs of grasses (enlarged)
- Spanish needle
- Cocklebur
- Burdock
- Aster
- Fleabane
- Brown-eyed susan
- Chicory
- Sneezeweed
Extent: 1 sheet