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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

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: Bitternut Hickory (3.27699)

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

Identifying text:

Hickory bitternut
Hicoria minima

NOTE: The currently accepted scientific name for the bitternut hickory is Carya cordiformis.
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

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

Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bark, mature

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