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Pine Cones (3.24629)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of nine pine cones, created to accompany "The Cones Of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): PINE CONES have scales with thickened tips; mature in 2 years]
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
- Eastern white pine -- Pinus strobus
- Limber pine -- Pinus flexilis
- Red pine -- Pinus resinosa
- Scotch pine -- Pinus sylvestris
- Ponderosa pine -- Pinus ponderosa
- Austrian pine -- Pinus nigra
- Jack pine -- Pinus banksiana
- Japanese red pine -- Pinus densiflora
- Pitch pine -- Pinus rigida
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24683)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Pine Hill section begins with text "Pines have - needles in bundles (illustration of 3 types of bundles), tips of cone scales thickened (illustration of cone)."
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #17: Jack Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #18: Jeffery Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #19: Limber Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #20: Ponderosa Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles.
Tree stump #21: Japanese White Pine
Includes illustrated identifying characteristics of needles and an illustrated image of Bonsai tree in pot on bottom right.
Several cutout illustrations depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board have detached and are no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets