Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
- Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
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
Leaf Prints: Tamarack (3.27704)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of tamarack, or American larch, needle-like leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Larch American
- Larix laricina
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Education charts: The Bog (3.34222)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a bog 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: THE BOG
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- luna moth
- red-eyed ---
- tamarack / or / American / larch
- showy lady's slipper
- spring ---
Extent: 1 slide
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, branch (3.58741)
Date: May 16 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, branch
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk (3.58742)
Date: September 14 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk (3.58743)
Date: January 6 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk (3.58744)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk (3.58745)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, trunk
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58746)
Date: January 6 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58747)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58748)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58749)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58750)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58751)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig (3.58752)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bark, twig
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, terminal (3.58753)
Date: September 14 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, terminal
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, terminal (3.58754)
Date: January 6 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, terminal
Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, vegetative (3.58755)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), bud, vegetative
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, immature (3.58756)
Date: April 20 2016Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, immature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58757)
Date: September 14 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58758)
Date: September 14 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58759)
Date: September 14 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58760)
Date: January 6 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58761)
Date: January 6 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58762)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58763)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58764)
Date: March 13 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature (3.58765)
Date: March 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), cone, mature
Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, fall (3.58766)
Date: October 31 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, fall
Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, fall (3.58767)
Date: October 31 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, fall
Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring (3.58768)
Date: March 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring
Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring (3.58769)
Date: March 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring
Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring (3.58770)
Date: March 11 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix laricina (Tamarack), habit, spring