Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Twelve Oaks (3.24795)
Date: 1944Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of leaf, acorn, and twigs with buds for twelve different types of oak, created to accompany "The Oaks Of The Morton Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Drawings are divided into two categories and depicted in columns with descriptive text.
Header: TWELVE OAKS
Leaves, acorns, and twigs as depicted in two categories, from left to right, top to bottom:
Category 1: The Black Oak Group
- Eastern Red Oak - Quercus borealis
- leaf - dull above, glabrous beneath, lobes narrowing toward margin, sinuses about half-way to mid-rib.
- acorn - shallow cup, saucer-shaped, with glossy tight scales, white kernel
- twig with buds - buds red brown, not angled; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Northern Pin - Quercus ellipsoidalis
- leaf - lustrous, deeply lobed, lobes widening toward margin, base truncate or broad-cunate, 5 to 7 lobed
- acorn - top-shaped cup, enclosing half of nut, yellow kernel
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, obtuse at tip; twigs red-brown
- Black - Quercus velutina
- leaf - leathery, thick, petioles yellow, sinuses varying from shallow to deep
- acorn - bowl-like cup, scales form fringe at margin, yellow kernel
- twig with bids - buds pale woolly, strongly 5-sided; twigs red-brown, lenticels conspicuous
- Pin - Quercus palustris
- leaf - thin, lustrous, 5 to 7 lobed, few-toothed, slender petioles, base cuneate
- acorn - saucer-shaped cup, scales with free tips, nut often striped
- twigs with buds - side buds at wide angle; twigs red-brown, smooth
- Shingle - Quercus imbricaria
- leaf - lustrous above, pubescent below, persistent in Winter
- acorn - stalked cup, bowl-like, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown smooth; twigs smooth, gray-brown
- Willow - Quercus phellos
- leaf - lustrous, nearly sessile, acute at both ends
- acorn - talked cup, shallow, thin
- twig with buds - buds brown; twigs fine
- White - Quercus alba
- leaf - glabrous, with deep sinuses, often persistent in winter
- acorn - bowl-like cup, with thickened warty scales, nut edible
- twig with buds - buds red-brown, smooth; twigs red-brown, later ashy-gray; lenticels pale, conspicuous
- Bur - Quercus macrocarpa
- leaf - usually with "wasp-waist" - thick, smooth above, pale-pubescent beneath
- acorn - cup fringed, covering half or more of nut, larger in South
- twig with buds - buds pale-woolly, gray-tan; twigs gray, later corky-ridged
- English - Quercus robur
- leaf - auricled base, nearly sessile
- acorn - cup enclosing 1/4 to 1/3 of nut, long-stemmed
- twig with buds - buds, brown; side buds divergent; twigs brown
- Chinquapin - Quercus muehlenbergii
- leaf - thick, shiny above, pubescent beneath, somewhat sharply-toothed, rounded base, slender petiole
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thin, scales indistinct
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown; twigs orange-brown
- Basket - Quercus michauxii
- leaf - crenate margin, pale-pubescent beneath, cunate base, 10 to 14 pairs of teeth
- acorn - cup bowl-shaped, thickened, scales wedge-shaped
- twig with buds - buds chestnut-brown, twigs orange-brown
- Swamp White - Quercus bicolor
- leaf - thick, firm, coarsely-toothed, shining above, pale-fomentose beneath, 6 to 10 pairs of teeth, often persistent in winter
- acorn - usually paired, cup bowl-shaped, slightly-fringed, long-stalked
- twigs with buds - buds brown; twigs yellow-brown, with pale, raised lenticels
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus nigra Quercus montana. (3.30566)
Creator: Plenck, Joseph Jacob, Ritter von, 1738-1807. Icones plantarum medicinalium secundum systema Linnæi digestarum.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 painting : watercolor, pen and ink visible image 35 x 23 cm.
Tree Portraits: Chestnut Oak (3.31806)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Chestnut Oak tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, drawings of a twig, a fruit, flowers, and descriptive text.
Header: CHESTNUT OAK
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- tree
- twig with buds: native just south of Arboretum
- fruit: matures in one year; kernel sweet
- flowers
Extent: 1 sheet
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), bark, trunk (3.46614)
Date: March 26 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), bark, trunk
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), bark, trunk (3.46615)
Date: March 26 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), bark, trunk
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), flower, pistillate (3.46616)
Date: June 3 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), flower, pistillate
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), flower, pistillate (3.46617)
Date: June 3 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), flower, pistillate
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature (3.46618)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature (3.46619)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature (3.46620)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), fruit, immature
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, fall (3.46621)
Date: October 24 2014Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, fall (3.46622)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, winter (3.46623)
Date: March 26 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), habit, winter
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall (3.46624)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall (3.46625)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall (3.46626)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall (3.46627)
Date: November 16 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, fall
Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, summer (3.46628)
Date: September 6 2017Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus montana (Chestnut Oak), leaf, summer
Quercus prinus (chestnut oak), habit, fall (3.57818)
Date: November 3 1982Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Quercus prinus (chestnut oak), habit, round, mature tree with thick trunk, covered with yellowish-green and red to orange leaves amongst trees showing fall color near road
Extent: 1 slide