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Morton Arboretum Prairie Restoration Project: 1960-1980, Raymond F. Schulenberg (3.104345)
Date: 1980sCreator: Schulenberg, Ray
Type: Document
Description:A formerly bound series of documents pertaining to the development of the Schulenberg Prairie. The physical copy of the artifact was formerly in a three-ring binder, but has since been placed in acid free folders, organized by the original tabs represented in the binder.
A table of contents for the pdf version provided in this record is as follows:
Before 1962: Pages 1-3
1962: Pages 4-19
1963: Pages 20-69
1964: Pages 70-106
1965: Pages 107-123
1966: Pages 124-125
1967: Pages 126-196
1968: Pages 197-230
1969: Pages 231-246
1970: Pages 247-264
1971: Pages 265-268
1972: Pages 269-275
After 1972: Pages 276-288
After 1980: Pages 289-315
Extent: 315 pages
Index Seminum, 1983 (3.106933)
Date: 1983Type: Document
Description:A listing of seeds available from The Morton Arboretum in 1983.
Extent: 1 sheet folded into a 4-page boolet
Members' Cooperative Research Program Selections 1983 (3.106940)
Date: 1983Type: Document
Description:A list of plants available for the Members' Cooperative Research Program in 1983 with counts of plants distributed.
Extent: 1 sheet
1983/08/11: Rhonda Snelson to George Ware (3.106941)
Date: August 11 1983Type: Document
Description:Final figures on 1983 Members' Cooperative Research Program including number of participants, number of plants distributed and income.
Extent: 1 sheet
1983/12/08: George Ware to Joe Larkin (3.106951)
Date: December 8 1983Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Members' Cooperative Research Plants for 1984 with edits.
Extent: 1 sheet
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Autumn 1983 (3.107015)
Date: 1983Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Autumn 1983 Branches Newsletter features; birds and birding with Naturalist Dick Wason, a linecut illustration of a Hooded Merganser by J. Janovy, an article on taxidermy featuring Toby Brown and an article on Bonsai and an upcoming Bonsai exhibit at Thornhill Education Center. Volunteer opportunities, new volunteers and special activities are highlighted.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of the Morton Arboretum, Spring 1983 (3.107016)
Date: 1983Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Podrasky, Nina, Halperin, Marilyn J.
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1983 Branches Newsletter contains articles on: the plant collections featuring Curator Ray Schulenberg, Plant Recorder Ed Hedborn, Plant Label Specialist Chad Avery and collections Crew Leader Nancy Wolbrink; the Catalog of Woody Plant Collections created by Taxonomist Floyd Swink and The Outpost including a new classroom area and a newly landscaped area maintained by a group of volunteers known as WISH, Workers in Sylvan Horticulture. New volunteers and volunteer and educational opportunites are also highlighted along with a volunteer generated guide of local nurseries that carry plants in the Arboretum plant collection.
Extent: 6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1983 (3.107017)
Date: 1983Creator: Stowell, Gladys, Kaskey, Marjorie, Martens, John
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1983 Branches Newsletter includes: a highlight of the Joy Path with Gardener John Sosnowski; a history of the Gardeners Aide Group founded by Anne Henderson to assist with maintenance of the Arboretum grounds; a Growing Things column featuring the Ground Cover Garden and a article outlining an experiment in hand removal of tent worms from the Crab Apple collection to avoid spraying. Upcoming events, educational opportunities, volunteer opportunities and new volunteers are also highlighted.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Winter 1983 (3.107018)
Date: 1983Creator: Halperin, Marilyn J., Kaskey, Marjorie
Type: Serial
Description:This issue focuses on the history of the Thornhill building featuring D. Merrill the landscaper from the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, the Audubon Room which had original prints engraved and printed by R. Havell the printer for Audubon, and the Founders Room which is the only original part of the Morton home that remains today. An article on the history of holly for decorative purposes and the growing of holly in North America follows. Events, classes, new volunteers and the recent volunteer Recognition are also featured.
Extent: 6 pages
Environmental Education for Fifth-graders (3.10875)
Date: December 21 1982 – March 20 1983Creator: Fialkowski, Carol
Type: Article
The Brooding of Bubo (3.10876)
Date: December 21 1982 – March 20 1983Type: Article
The Boatload of Knowledge: New Harmony, Indiana, as a Center of Natural History in the Nineteenth Century (3.10878)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Creator: MacPhail, Ian
Type: Article
Libraries and Computers (3.10879)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Type: Article
The Lookout (3.10880)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Type: Article
Research Notes (3.10881)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Type: Article
Bryophytes of The Morton Arboretum (3.10883)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1983Creator: Armstrong, Patricia K.
Type: Article
Walking Through China in Search of Plants (3.10886)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1983Creator: Pollack, Lori
Type: Article
Peking: the Search Continues (3.10887)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1983Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
The Landscape of the Street (3.10889)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Article
Audubon—A Botanist’s Viewpoint (3.10890)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Creator: Hess, William J.
Type: Article
A Note on Productivity (3.10891)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Type: Article
Events, News, & Classes: Autumn 1983 (3.113774)
Date: 1983Type: Serial
Description:A digitized version of the Autumn 1983 Events, News, & Classes Newsletter. This issue features events such as Bluegrass at Thornhill and a Bonsai Exhibit at Thornhill. It also includes behind the scenes gardening information and how volunteers fight tent caterpillars and mentions a problem with deer eating young plants. It also has a list of classes.
Extent: 5 pages
Ecological Considerations for Urban Tree Selection (3.114598)
Date: September 1983Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Description:Discusses selection of trees for urban planting through combining considerations of inherent species qualities (genetic component) and site selection/modification (environmental component). From the proceedings of the Midwest Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture #38; September 14, 1983.
Extent: 6 pages
Pansy (3.24633)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a large pansy flower and three detail views, including floral diagram, reverse of flower, and center, accompanied by descriptive text. Background sketches along the left side include a house, a heart, and a church, center bottom includes three women and two girls sitting in a circle drinking tea, and center right includes flowers and an elf. Sketches depict various pansy folklore.
Upper left text lists various names this flower goes by - herb trinity, pink of my John, heart's ease, step-mother, kit run in the street, kiss me at the garden gate, cuddle me to you, kiss me quick or PANSY
Top right floral diagram illustration identifies sepal, petal, stamen, pistil, nectar sac
Bottom left illustration (reverse of flower) identifies sepal, petal, nectar sac
Bottom right illustration identifies stigma, pistil and stamens, nectar sac
Extent: 1 sheet
Owl Pellets Galore (3.24640)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Document
Description:Four pages of type-written text for Owl Pellets Galore by May Theilgaard Watts, an account detailing the process of searching for and examining long-eared owl pellets with Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.
Accompanied by artwork titled Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls.
Extent: 4 sheets
Under the Roost of the Long-Eared Owls (3.24641)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Four illustrations depicting long-eared owls and their pellets. Captions accompany each individual illustration. The drawings illustrate the story OWL PELLETS GALORE by May Theilgaard Watts, Naturalist at The Morton Arboretum.
Upper left text: UNDER the ROOST of the LONG-EARED OWLS
Illustrations with captions, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Drawing of an owl pellet
- Caption: An owl pellet
- Drawing of forest floor, including rhododendron
- Caption: When rhododendron leaves uncurl we find pellets.
- Drawing of rodent bone findings
- Caption: Each pellet reveals parts of a small rodent.
- Drawing of two owls in a tree
- Caption: They seem to grow taller as we approach.
Extent: 1 sheet
Three Seasons of Bloom in the Prairie (3.24642)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 23 prairie plants shown in a chart formation categorized by Fall, Summer, and Spring from top to bottom, and from high prairie to low prairie from left to right. Identifying text appears beneath each illustration, some of which is on strip of board attached to the bottom with tape.
Header: THREE SEASONS of BLOOM in the PRAIRIE
Text, top right: the individual plants represent colonies of varying sizes
Plants as depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
- Fall
- big bluestem
- blazing star
- Indian grass
- wild rye
- switch grass
- saw-toothed sunflower
- prairie dock
- cord grass
- Summer
- lead plant
- New Jersey tea
- flowering spurge
- stiff goldenrod
- black-eyed Susan
- Culver's root
- tall meadow rue
- Sullivant's milkweed
- Spring:
- bird's-foot violet
- blue-eyed grass
- puccoon
- downy phlox
- wild strawberry
- Canada anemone
- yellow star grass
Extent: 1 sheet
Recommended Shrubby Potentilla Cultivars for the Midwest (3.31516)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Map & Visitor Guide, The Morton Arboretum (3.34271)
Date: 1982 – 1986Type: Map
Description:Double-sided brochure, Map & Visitor Guide for The Morton Arboretum
Map details Arboretum roads, trails, plant collections, buildings and boundaries. Includes photographs of various Arboretum buildings with descriptive information.
Reverse side provides general information about the Arboretum, trails for walking and hiking, driving through the Arboretum, areas and collections of special interest, native plant communities, wildlife at the Arboretum, regulations, facilities and services, and information on membership. A section of the map is enlarged to identify landmarks around the Visitor Center, Administration Building, and Thornhill Education Center.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 18 No. 04 (3.34503)
Date: December 21 1982 – March 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 01 (3.34504)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 02 (3.34505)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 03 (3.34506)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1983Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 19 No. 04 (3.34507)
Date: December 21 1983 – March 20 1984Type: Serial
Extent: 16 pages
An atlas of early maps of the American Midwest. Compiled by W. Raymond Wood ... (3.37827)
Date: 1983Creator: Wood, W. Raymond
Type: Book
Extent: 7 lea., 22 plates (part double), 41 cm
1983/12/05: David L. Hensley to George Ware (3.39922)
Date: December 5 1983Creator: Hensley, David L.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from David L. Hensley of Kansas State University to George Ware giving the status of various plants in the vicinity, inquiring about Chinese plant material suitable for their area of Kansas, and potential internship positions at the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet