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Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: 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
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 5 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24679)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 5, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #7: White Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below with glued-on cutout of detailed needle illustration.
Tree stump #8: Douglas Fir
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree illustrated below.
Tree stump #9: Japanese Yew
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and fruit images illustrated below.
Tree stump #10: False Cypress
Includes generalized identifying characteristics of tree with detailed needle and cone images illustrated below.
Several cutout illustrations depicting needle/cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Douglas Fir needles housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout