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The Cedars (3.24624)

Date: 1945
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two cedars, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include two full trees with illustrations of needles and fruit underneath. Identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.

[Original header (not included with art): "THE CEDARS"]

Trees, needles, and fruit depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:

Red cedar -- Juniperus virginiana (with 2 kinds of needles)
- scale-like needles with blue-gray berries
- awl-shaped needles
Arbor Vitae or White cedar -- Thuja occidentalis (1 kind of needle)
- scale-like needles, small cones

Extent: 1 sheet

Spruce Cones (3.24628)

Date: 1943
Creator: 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

[Original subhead (not included with art): FIR CONES are upright, with thin scales that fall off]

Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
White fir -- Abies concolor

[Original subhead (not included with art): LARCH CONES are stalked, thin-scaled]

European larch -- Larix decidua
Tamarack -- Larix laricina
Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis

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: Eastern Arborvitae (3.27675)

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

Identifying text:

Cedar white
Thuja occidentalis

Extent: 1 sheet

1983/12/20 Ray Keen to George Ware (3.39924)

Date: December 20 1983
Creator: Keen, Dr. Ray
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Dr. Ray Keen of Kansas State University to George Ware discussing the status of various trees in and around the campus at Kansas State University.
Extent: 2 sheets

Thuja occidentalis (Eastern Arborvitae), bark, mature

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