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
Rhus typhina 'Dissecta' [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24582)
Date: 1965Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
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
Leaf Prints: Staghorn Sumac (3.27740)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of staghorn sumac leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Sumach staghorn
- Rhus hirta
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Staghorn Sumac (3.31833)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a staghorn sumac tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and drawing of flower. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- l
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. 01 No. 03 (3.34464)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1965Type: Serial
Description:
- Outstanding Plants in Review (1-5)
- Planting a Small Tree (Up to one inch in diameter) (6-7)
- Rhus typhina L. dissecta Rehd. Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac: (Anacardiaceae) Cashew Family (8-9)
- Planning the Arboretum (10-12)
- Talking Turkey (13)
- Arboretum News and Notes (14-16)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer pseudoplatanus and (R) Rhus typhina (3.4578)
Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) research, pollen grains of (L) Acer pseudoplatanus and (R) Rhus typhina
Shows the spaghetti-like ridges (striations) of the surface (exine) between the grooves (colpi)
Extent: 1 photograph
1991/10/04: George Ware to Suzanne Malec (3.56304)
Date: October 4 1991Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile of an abstract and research paper sent to Suzanne Malec of the Open Land Project. The paper, Trees for Restricted Spaces was written by George Ware and discusses the genetic, topographic, and edaphic factors to take into consideration when selecting urban trees.
Extent: 8 sheets