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
Trees with Flowers Borne in Catkins (3.24606)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations depicting catkins, flowers, seeds, and associated outline of five trees, created to accompany "The Flowers Nobody Knows" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Descriptive text identifies coloring, anatomy, and bloom time.
Header: Trees with Flowers Borne in Catkins
Illustrations are separated into two sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1: Pistillate and Staminate Catkins on Different Trees
(depicted from left to right)
- Catkins Upright
- Black willow -- Salix nigra
- Catkins Pendent
- Cottonwood -- Populus deltoides
(depicted from left to right)
- European alder -- Alnus glutinosa
- Gray birch -- Betula populifolia
- Ironwood -- Ostrya virginiana
Extent: 1 sheet
Through a Magnifying Glass (3.24609)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of lichens, flowers, buds, leaves, twigs, and seeds of various plants, created to accompany "Through A Magnifying Glass" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes descriptive text next to each plant image.
Plants depicted in three sections, from left to right, top to bottom:
Section 1: There are lichens in the spruce plot,
- Pixie cups -- Cladonia chlorophaea
- British soldiers -- Cladonia cristatella
- Awl lichen -- Cladonia coniocraea
- Vernal Witch hazel -- Hamamelis vernalis
- A magnolia bud wears deep velvet
- The persistent leaves of bayberry are copper and rose underneath, set with amber globules
- Butternut buds wear camels' faces
- Birch seeds and the scales of their cones play several variations on the same theme, including European white, gray, cherry, and river
- Queen Anne's lace has design in its "bird-nest" seed heads
- Spore capsules of mosses show many patterns. This one is Funaria hygrometrica, with a seta that twists and untwists with changing humidity
- A buckeye bud may reveal a flower cluster and several leaves
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
Leaf Prints: Gray Birch (3.27666)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of gray birch leaves, stems, and fruit on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Birch white
- Betula populifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Gray birch = Betula populifolia / Marcia G. Norman. (3.30553)
Date: 1975Creator: Norman, Marcia Gaylord.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 drawing : watercolor 35 x 26 cm.
Tree Portraits: Gray Birch (3.31894)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Gray Birch tree, including nature print outlines of a leaf and twig, and a drawing of seeds.
Extent: 1 sheet
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: 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
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bark, mature (3.64725)
Date: March 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bark, mature
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bark, mature (3.64726)
Date: March 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bark, mature
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, lateral (3.64727)
Date: March 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, lateral
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, lateral (3.64728)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, lateral
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, staminate (3.64729)
Date: February 5 2012Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, staminate
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, terminal (3.64730)
Date: March 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, terminal
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, terminal, bud, lateral (3.64731)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), bud, terminal, bud, lateral
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), fruit, mature (3.64732)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), fruit, mature
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), habit, winter (3.64733)
Date: March 23 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), habit, winter
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, lower surface (3.64734)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, lower surface
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, summer (3.64735)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, summer
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64736)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, upper surface
Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, upper surface (3.64737)
Date: September 30 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Betula populifolia (Gray Birch), leaf, upper surface