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Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)

Date: 1940 – 1950
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.

Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
  • bitternut hickory
  • witch-hazel
  • shadbush
  • beech
  • black walnut
  • butternut
  • sassafras
  • shagbark hickory
  • linden
  • mountain ash
  • sour gum
  • silver poplar

Extent: 1 sheet

Through a Magnifying Glass (3.24609)

Date: 1944
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of lichens, flowers, buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds of various plants, created to accompany "Through A Magnifying Glass" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes descriptive text next to each plant image.

Plants depicted in three sections, from left to right, top to bottom:

Section 1: There are lichens in the spruce plot,
  • Pixie cups -- Cladonia chlorophaea
  • British soldiers -- Cladonia cristatella
  • Awl lichen -- Cladonia coniocraea
Section 2: The first flower of the year shows unique details,
  • Vernal Witch hazel -- Hamamelis vernalis
Section 3: And many buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds hold interest -
  • A magnolia bud wears deep velvet
  • The persistent leaves of bayberry are copper and rose underneath, set with amber globules
  • Butternut buds wear camels' faces
  • Birch seeds and the scales of their cones play several variations on the same theme, including European white, gray, cherry, and river
  • Queen Anne's lace has design in its "bird-nest" seed heads
  • Spore capsules of mosses show many patterns. This one is Funaria hygrometrica, with a seta that twists and untwists with changing humidity
  • A buckeye bud may reveal a flower cluster and several leaves

Extent: 1 sheet

Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)

Date: 1943
Creator: 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
2) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE BUDS
  • 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 4 (3.24636)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 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. 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) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
  • Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
  • Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
2) [Original text] TREES WITH LONG NARROW BUDS
  • Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
  • Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
3) [Original text] U-SHAPED BUNDLE SCARS, DIAPHRAGMED PITH
  • Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
  • Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
4) [Original text] TREES WITH  GREEN TWIGS
  • Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
5) [Original text] LARGE END BUD WITH LOOSE, DARK OUTER SCALES
  • Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata 
6) [Original text] DARK RED WINTER BUDS
  • Linden -- Tilia americana 
  • Mountain ash -- Sorbus
  • Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica 
7) [Original text] DOWNY WHITE BUDS
  • Silver poplar -- Populus alba

Extent: 1 sheet

Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)

Date: 20th century
Creator: 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: Butternut (3.27746)

Date: circa 1950
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of butternut, or white walnut, leaves, stems, fruit, and a twig with buds on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.

Identifying text:
  • Walnut white
  • Juglans cinerea

Extent: 1 sheet

Tree Portraits: Butternut (3.31855)


Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a butternut, or white walnut, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, and a drawings of its seeds and chambered pith. Tape adhered to bottom right corner indicates assigned letter.

Descriptive text in bottom right:
  • o

Extent: 1 sheet

Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)


Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 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:
  • bitternut hickory
  • witch-hazel
  • shadbush
  • beech
  • black walnut
  • butternut
  • sassafras
  • shagbark hickory
  • linden
  • mountain ash
  • sour gum
  • silver poplar




 
Extent: 1 slide

Vegetable dyes: Butternut leaves (3.34406)


Type: Photographic image
Description:A loosely woven swatch of threads dyed with butternut leaves for a class taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.

Label: Butternut leaves
Extent: 1 slide

Vegetable dyes: Butternut and Walnut hulls (3.34408)


Type: Photographic image
Description:Two loosely woven swatches of threads, one dyed with butternut hulls and one dyed with walnut hulls, for a class taught by May T. Watts at The Morton Arboretum.

Label: Butternut hulls / Walnut hulls
Extent: 1 slide

2000/04/05: Village of Winnetka to George Ware (3.47259)

Date: April 5 2000
Creator: Village of Winnetka
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from the Village of Winnetka to George Ware listing the species of Arboretum trees along Green Bay Road.
Extent: 1 sheet

1997/06/17: Jeffrey R. Short Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn (3.57412)

Date: June 17 1997
Creator: Short Jr., Jeffrey R.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffrey R. Short, Jr. to Dr. Christopher Dunn providing his thoughts on the success or failure of various tree species received from the Morton Arboretum. Included with the letter are two completed Members' Cooperative Research Program evaluation forms from Jeffrey Short listing when the trees were purchased from the Arboretum and their current condition. Dr. George Ware is cc'd in the letter.
Extent: 3 sheets

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch (3.60243)

Date: July 28 2008
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch (3.60244)

Date: September 1998
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, branch

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, trunk

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, trunk (3.60245)

Date: April 1 2009
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, trunk

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, twig

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, twig (3.60246)

Date: April 1 2009
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bark, twig

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal (3.60247)


Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal (3.60248)

Date: April 1 2009
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal (3.60249)

Date: September 23 2009
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal (3.60250)

Date: September 23 2009
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal, lateral

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal, lateral (3.60251)

Date: July 28 2008
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), bud, terminal, lateral

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate (3.60252)

Date: June 16 2008
Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate (3.60253)

Date: June 16 2008
Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate (3.60254)

Date: June 16 2008
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate (3.60255)

Date: June 16 2008
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, pistillate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, staminate (3.60256)

Date: May 21 2011
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), flower, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature (3.60257)

Date: July 30 2007
Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature (3.60258)

Date: July 28 2008
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), fruit, immature

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), habit, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), habit, fall (3.60259)

Date: October 5 2002
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), habit, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate (3.60260)

Date: May 21 2011
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate (3.60261)

Date: May 21 2011
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate (3.60262)

Date: May 21 2011
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), inflorescence, staminate

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall (3.60263)

Date: October 19 2016
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall (3.60264)

Date: October 19 2016
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, fall

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer (3.60265)

Date: July 30 2007
Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer

Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer (3.60266)

Date: June 16 2008
Creator: Brown, Deborah J.G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Juglans cinerea (Butternut), leaf, summer

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