Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: 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: 1943Creator: 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
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
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: Bitternut Hickory (3.27699)
Date: circa 1950Creator: 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
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 1997Creator: 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 (3.61753)
Date: October 13 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bark, mature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bark, trunk (3.61754)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bark, trunk
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61755)
Date: September 15 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61756)
Date: September 15 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61757)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61758)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61759)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal (3.61760)
Date: October 29 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , bud, terminal
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , flower, staminate (3.61761)
Date: June 8 2017Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , flower, staminate
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , flower, staminate (3.61762)
Date: June 8 2017Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , flower, staminate
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature (3.61763)
Date: September 12 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature (3.61764)
Date: September 12 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature (3.61765)
Date: September 12 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature (3.61766)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature (3.61767)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , fruit, immature
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, summer (3.61768)
Date: September 15 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, summer
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, summer (3.61769)
Date: October 13 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, summer
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, winter (3.61770)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, winter
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, young (3.61771)
Date: June 2 2012Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , habit, young
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , inflorescence, staminate (3.61772)
Date: June 8 2017Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , inflorescence, staminate
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , inflorescence, staminate (3.61773)
Date: June 8 2017Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , inflorescence, staminate
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, fall (3.61774)
Date: October 18 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, fall
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, lower surface (3.61775)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, lower surface
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, summer (3.61776)
Date: September 15 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, summer
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, upper surface (3.61777)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , leaf, upper surface
Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , seed (3.61778)
Date: September 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Carya cordiformis (Bitternut Hickory) , seed