Plants of four seasons, Logo 2001 [graphic] / N.S. Hart Stieber. (3.24397)
Date: 2000Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 28 x 22 cm.
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
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 3 illustrations and layout (3.24677)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Original illustrations and layout for page 3, 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 #1: The Ancestry of Evergreens
Tree stump #2: Firs and Spruces
Identifying characteristics for needles and cones illustrated in columns below.
No preliminary sketches available for page 3.
Extent: 1 sheet
Black (double) spruce = [graphic] Abies nigra / Bessa delt. Lse. Fse. Jacquirot Fme. Boquet Sc. (3.25050)
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.
White (single) spruce = [graphic] Abies alba / Bessa delt. Bocquet Sct. (3.25072)
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 of Britain and Northern Europe : Conifers / Ian Garrard. (3.30234)
Creator: Garrard, Ian.
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 print : commerical reproduction, color 77 x 51 cm.
Education charts: New England (3.34181)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting a New England association. A detailed illustration of a single tree leaf is positioned at the center of the chart, surrounded by four vingnettes showing additional flora and fauna found within the ecological community.
Header: NEW ENGLAND
Labels from top to bottom, left to right:
- Indian pipe
- purple finch
- white pine
- porcupine
- balsam fir / --- spruce
Extent: 1 slide
The Stylish House: 1931 to 1941 (3.34277)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the early mid-20th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- John Edward and Nancy Ann / Bee / Chuck / and / Lassie
- 1931 to / 1941 [sketch of a shrub]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds, including the neighboring house and yard, with the following plants and trees labeled:]
- herbs
- white petunias / white delphiniums / Artemisia Silver King
- privet
- tartarian / honeysuckle
- Colorado spruce
- Pfitzer juniper
- [m---] pine
- Siberian elms
- [sketches of a garden gnome, animal-shaped planters, and a lily pond to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
Redbuds (Cercis canadensis) near Lake Marmo at The Morton Arboretum (3.36295)
Date: April 25 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinkish-purple flowers of redbuds (Cercis canadensis) in the spring contrast with the dark green spruce along the shore of Lake Marmo at The Morton Arboretum
Central European Woods, Morton Arboretum (3.5670)
Date: 1920sCreator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Birch, spruce, beech, pine, alder, oak, and larch plantings are shown. The geographic collection is located on the east of Simonds Road in the western portion of the Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tsuga sp., needles (left), Abies sp., needles (bottom), Picea sp., needles (right) (3.81504)
Date: February 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:Tsuga sp. (left), green-grey pointed needles, straight light brown branch; Abies sp. (bottom), green-grey blunt tip needles, trio branch out tip, small brown pine cones on tips; Picea sp. (right), green-grey blunt tip needles, straight dark brown branch
Extent: 1 slide