Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Early Settlers Brought Roses (3.19507)

Date: mid 20th century
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes locations of sites where roses were obtained for the Old-Fashioned Rose Garden.

Header [framed by illustrations of rose bushes, one red and one pink]: Early Settlers Brought ROSES from the East often in covered wagons

Text and illustrations from top to bottom:

• [Depicted in stylized scroll] The Record is in our Old-Fashioned Rose Garden / When this garden was started plants were obtained from old settlers near the Arboretum.
• THREE OLD-TIMERS: [Illustration of three types of roses, from left to right]
  • Harrison's Yellow
  • moss rose
  • Cabbage rose
• These three and other old-time roses were obtained from:
  • 1. The Jones Homestead in Warrenville, to which the Jones family came from New York State in 1845 in a covered wagon.
  • 2. The old Peaslee home in Naperville, to which the Peaslee family came, from West Virginia, 60 years ago.
  • 3. The Blanchard home in Wheaton. The roses were moved from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Galseburg, Illinois; then from Galesburg to Wheaton.
  • 4. The property given by President Jonathan Blanchard, first president of Wheaton College, in 1890, to his daughter.
  • 5. The oldest house in Wheaton, (corner of Naperville Rd. and Roosevelt) built by Warren Wheaton, who came from Connecticut in 1837, and built the house in 1847.
  • and others 

Extent: 1 sheet

Interview with Ray Schulenberg: biodiversity, collection sites, plant origins during his tenure (3.33435)

Date: March 2 2000
Type: Audio
Description:Interview with Ray Schulenberg conducted by Kunso Kim (Curator of Botanical Collections), Marcus de la Fleur (visiting Landscape Architect) , and Tim Boland (Curator of Horticultural Collections).

Topics discussed include biodiversity at The Morton Arboretum, decisions on collection site placement, and origins of plant species introduced to The Morton Arboretum during Schulenberg's tenure.
Extent: 1 cassette

The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 03 (3.34510)

Date: September 21 – December 20 1966
Type: Serial
Description:

• On Clarence Godshalk’s Retirement (33-35)
• A Colleague’s Appreciation (36-37)
• Looking Back (38-40)
• A New Director for the Arboretum (41)
• Climatological Summary (41)
• In Memoriam: E. Lowell Kammerer 1906-1966 (42-43)
• Sour Gum, Black Gum, Tupelo, Papperidge. Nyssa sylvatica: Sour Gum Family (Nyssaceae) (44-45)
• Seed Exchange (46-48)

(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages

Morton Arboretum Woody Plants Acquired in 1922 and Still Present in 2003 (3.69268)

Date: January 2003
Type: Document
Description:A listing of woody plants acquired by the Morton Arboretum in 1922 and still present as of January 20, 2003.  List contains origination information and current location in the arboretum.
Extent: 18 sheets