Pine Cones (3.24629)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of nine pine cones, created to accompany "The Cones Of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): PINE CONES have scales with thickened tips; mature in 2 years]
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern white pine -- Pinus strobus
- Limber pine -- Pinus flexilis
- Red pine -- Pinus resinosa
- Scotch pine -- Pinus sylvestris
- Ponderosa pine -- Pinus ponderosa
- Austrian pine -- Pinus nigra
- Jack pine -- Pinus banksiana
- Japanese red pine -- Pinus densiflora
- Pitch pine -- Pinus rigida
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 12 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24686)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 12, 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 #27:Pitch Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #28: Japanese Table Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and of tree below.
Tree stump #29: Austrian Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #30: Mountain Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present. One detached cutout illustration of Japanese Table Pine cone housed with art.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
Pitch pine = [graphic] Pinus rigida / Bessa del. Caly sc. (3.25061)
Date: 1810Creator: Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 23 x 15 cm., on sheet 28 x 19 cm.
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Pine-Oak Scrub Food Web (3.34242)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a pine-oak scrub food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
- PRAIRIE WARBLER
- PITCH PINE
- FOWLER'S TOAD
- RED FOX
- SHARP-SHINNED HAWK
- CHICKADEE
- CATERPILLAR
- CENTIPEDE
- TOWHEE
- CHIPMUNK
- SCRUB OAK
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- BEETLE GRUB
Extent: 1 slide
Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), bark, branch (3.61389)
Date: May 1 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), bark, branch
Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), bark, mature (3.61390)
Date: May 1 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), bark, mature
Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), cone, pollen (3.61391)
Date: May 1 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), cone, pollen
Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), habit, spring (3.61392)
Date: May 1 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus rigida (Pitch Pine), habit, spring