Winter Buds, #1 (3.19511)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 16 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 sheet
Acer platanoides [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24576)
Date: 1974Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Maples from Europe and Asia (3.24612)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of five species of maple, created to accompany "The Maples of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings show tree shape, including top, twigs, branches, and size, winged seeds, and leaves. Descriptive text gives details of tree structure (branching, bark, and trunk), habitat, seed ripening schedule, and leaf details including color and sinus structure.
Illustrations depicted from top to bottom:
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- round top; twigs green-brown; from Europe, Caucasia; ripe in Fall; green on both sides; broad; rounded sinuses; 7-lobed; pale yellow in Fall; milky juice
- Sycamore maple -- Acer pseudoplatanus
- spreading top; from Europe, W. Asia; bark scales off in thin flakes; ripe in Fall; hanging in clusters like grapes; toothed margin; green on both sides; acute sinuses
- Amur maple -- Acer ginnala
- shrub to small tree; slender smooth branches; from China, Japan; ripe in late summer, red; long central lobe; toothed margin; yellow, orange, red in Fall
- Hedge maple -- Acer campestre
- shrub to small tree; from Europe, W. Asia; flattened nutlet; ripe in Fall; not toothed; milky juice
- Japanese maple -- Acer palmatum
- shrub; from Korea, Japan; ripe in Fall; usually red in Spring fading to green; 5 to 9 lobed
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 2 (3.24631)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 2 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 mostly missing.
Illustrations are divided into two sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] TREES WITH OPPOSITE BRANCHING
- White ash -- Fraxinus americana
- Black ash -- Fraxinus nigra
- Blue ash -- Fraxinus quadrangulata
- Red ash -- Fraxinus pennsylvanica
- Sugar maple -- Acer saccharum
- Norway maple -- Acer platanoides
- Red maple -- Acer rubrum
- Silver maple -- Acer saccharinum
- Box-elder -- Acer negundo
- Horse-chestnut -- Aesculus hippocastanum
- Ohio buckeye -- Aesculus glabra
- Flowering dogwood -- Cornus florida
- Catalpa -- Catalpa speciosa [and] Catalpa bignonioides
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- [as a single illustration:]
- Yellow birch -- Betula lutea
- River birch -- Betula nigra
- Cherry birch -- Betula lenta
- Paper birch -- Betula papyrifera
- European white birch -- Betula pendula
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
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
Tree Portraits: Norway Maple (3.31825)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a norway maple tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- D
Extent: 1 sheet
Looking west at South Farm entrance prior to moving large Norway maple (3.33492)
Date: September 1957Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Looking west at South Farm entrance prior to moving large Norway maple during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
General view of area south of South Farm shops prior to planting Norway maple (3.33495)
Date: September 1957Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:General view of area south of South Farm shops prior to planting Norway maple
Extent: 1 negative
Education charts: Town and Suburb (3.34180)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a town and suburb 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: TOWN AND SUBURB
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- clear-wing moth
- robin
- Norway maple
- petunia
- rabbit
Extent: 1 slide
Education charts: Twigs, #2 (3.34234)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 16 types of winter buds on twigs. The chart appears to be tacked to a display board in a classroom.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- white ash
- black ash
- blue ash
- red ash
- sugar maple
- Norway maple
- silver maple
- box-elder
- horse-chestnut
- ohio buckeye
- flowering dogwood
- catalpa
- ironwood
- gray birch
- European white birch
- European alder
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 10 No. 03 (3.34469)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1974Type: Serial
Description:
- Immigrant Plants (33-39)
- Norway Maple, Acer platanoides: Maple Family (Aceraceae) (40-41)
- Impressions of Wolf Road Prairie (42-44)
- Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary (45-47)
- Acorns Large & Small (48)
Extent: 16 pages
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), bark and bud (3.38062)
Date: May 1977Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), split image showing closeup detail of mature furrowed bark next to closeup detail of dark brown rounded bud on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer (maple), bud and twig comparison (3.38063)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Buds on twigs of four different species of maple, from left to right: Acer negundo (boxelder), Acer rubrum (red maple), Acer platanoides (Norway maple), Acer saccharum (sugar maple)
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), bud (3.38064)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of twig and brown bud with bright green and red color at tip
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), buds (3.38065)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of rounded, dark brown buds on twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), bark (3.38066)
Date: October 8 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), detail of neatly furrowed bark on tree trunk
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), trunk (3.38067)
Date: April 1969Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), base of tree trunk and exposed shallow root system of Norway maple planted in parkway between sidewalk and street
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38068)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), two images showing closeup detail of bright yellow-green flowers in erect rounded clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38069)
Date: May 1980Creator: Dritz, Ken
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of bright yellow-green flowers in erect rounded cluster
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), bud and flowers (3.38070)
Date: April 1968Creator: Jirak, Jana R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of budding flowers emerging from twig
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), fruit (3.38071)
Date: May 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup of dark green leaves and clusters of pale green winged samara fruit
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38072)
Date: April 1971Creator: Kohout, John, Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of hanging twig with buds blooming into bright yellow-green flowers clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38073)
Date: May 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of yellow-green flowers emerging from buds on twig in rounded clusters
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), flowers (3.38074)
Date: May 1962Creator: Scott, Marion
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), closeup detail of bright yellow-green rounded flower cluster against blue background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), young tree in early spring (3.38077)
Date: March 1968Creator: Gall, Richard
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), young, bare tree in the foreground of an open plot of land with other trees evenly dispersed in background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), young tree (3.38079)
Date: October 1968Creator: Ware, George
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), young tree with leaves beginning to change to golden color in foreground of open plot of land with several other varieties of trees growing in the background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), residential street (3.38099)
Date: April 1968Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), view of residential street lined with Norway maples planted in parkway on both sides of the road, branches of trees are visible and sparsely covered with bright yellow-green flowers in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), winter habit (3.38100)
Date: January 2000Creator: Boland, Tim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), full view of trees in winter with bare branches and visible outline of habit, situated amongst several other bare trees of similar size
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), habit, spring (3.38101)
Date: March 1979Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), full view of large tree standing in front of residence, branches are sparsely covered with yellow-green flowers in early spring; shape of upright habit and broad, rounded crown are visible
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), habit, spring (3.38102)
Date: April 1969Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), view of residential street lined with Norway maples planted in parkway near road, branches of trees are mostly visible through covering of bright yellow-green flowers in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), habit, spring (3.38103)
Date: May 1967Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), full view of tree with branches sparsely covered with yellow-green flowers in spring; shape of upright habit and broad, rounded crown are visible
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), habit, summer (3.38104)
Date: August 1966Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), full view of small tree with dense green foliage in foreground, more trees planted in neat rows can be seen in background
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), habit, spring (3.38106)
Date: April 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), full view of large tree standing in residential area, branches are sparsely covered with yellow-green flowers in early spring; shape of upright habit and broad, rounded crown are visible
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway maple), residential street (3.38107)
Date: April 1969Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway maple), view of residential street lined with Norway maples planted in parkway on both sides of the road, branches of trees are visible and sparsely covered with bright yellow-green flowers in spring
Extent: 1 slide
Acer platanoides (Norway Maple), bark, mature (3.41235)
Date: November 24 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway Maple), bark, mature
Acer platanoides (Norway Maple), bark, mature (3.41236)
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Acer platanoides (Norway Maple), bark, mature