Winter Buds, #3 (3.19513)
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:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 sheet
Larix decidua [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24602)
Date: 1969Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
The Deciduous Conifers (3.24623)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of two conifer species, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include two full trees with two illustrations of leaves underneath. The identifying text "needles in tufts drooping twigs" is glued on separate piece of paper to the surface, top right. The remaining identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): THE DECIDUOUS CONIFERS]
Trees depicted from left to right:
- Bald cypress -- Taxodium distichum
- European larch -- Larix descidua
Extent: 1 sheet
Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
- Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 3 (3.24632)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 3 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs with identifying labels and text above each, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Some original identifying text has detached and is no longer present.
Illustrations are divided into seven sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) TREES WITH THORNS
- Honey locust -- Gleditsia triacanthos
- Black locust -- Robinia pseudo-acacia
- Osage orange -- Maclura pomifera
- Hawthorn -- Crataegus
- Wild crab -- Malus ioensis [and] Malus coronaria
- Wild plum : Prunus americana [and] Prunus nigra
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Ginkgo -- Ginkgo biloba
- Black Oak Group
- Red oak -- Quercus borealis maxima
- Northern pin oak -- Quercus ellipsoidalis
- Pin oak -- Quercus palustris
- White Oak Group
- Bur Oak -- Quercus macrocarpa
- White oak -- Quercus alba
- Swamp white oak -- Quercus bicolor
- Tulip [tree] -- Liriodendron tulipifera
- Sycamore -- Platanus occidentalis
- Kentucky coffee tree -- Gymnocladus dioicus
- Tree of heaven -- Ailanthus altissima
- Staghorn sumac -- Rhus typhina
- Smooth sumac -- Rhus glabra
- Willow -- Salix
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 13 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24687)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 13, 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 #31: 'Evergreens' that are not Evergreen
Tree stump #32: European Larch
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles below.
Tree stump #33: Arbor Vitae
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and cone below.
Tree stump #34: Bald Cypress
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of leaves and cone below.
Single cutout illustration depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
Education charts: Twigs, #3 (3.34236)
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 classroom display board.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- honey locust
- black locust
- Osage orange
- hawthorn
- wild crab
- wild plum
- European larch
- ginkgo
- red oak
- white oak
- tulip tree
- sycamore
- Kentucky coffeetree
- tree of heaven
- staghorn sumac
- willow
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 05 No. 02 (3.34567)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1969Type: Serial
Description:
- The Country in the City (17-21)
- European Larch, Larix decidua: Pine Family (Pinaceae) (22-23)
- Flower Baskets Found in Books (24-31)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (32)
Extent: 16 pages
Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, branch (3.58681)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, branch
Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, trunk (3.58682)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, trunk
Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, twig (3.58683)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, twig
Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, twig (3.58684)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), bark, twig
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone mature (3.58685)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, immature (3.58686)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, immature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, immature (3.58687)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, immature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature (3.58688)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature (3.58689)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature (3.58690)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature (3.58691)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature (3.58692)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), cone, mature
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, fall (3.58693)
Date: October 17 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, fall
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, spring (3.58694)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, spring
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, spring (3.58695)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, spring
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, summer (3.58696)
Date: September 14 2010Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, summer
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, winter (3.58697)
Date: January 31 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, winter
Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, winter (3.58698)
Date: November 25 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), habit, winter
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring (3.58699)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring (3.58700)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring (3.58701)
Date: April 13 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, spring
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer (3.58702)
Date: September 7 2016Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer (3.58703)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer
Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer (3.58704)
Date: July 1 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Larix decidua (European Larch), leaf, summer