From a Summer Meadow (3.24613)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of various meadow leaves, seeds, and flowers with descriptive text next to each image, created to accompany "Let's Look At A Meadow" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information.
Header: From A Summer Meadow
Illustrations are divided into three sections, from top to bottom:
Section 1 - LEAVES with protection (depicted from left to right)
- from a too thristy sun
- Queen Anne's lace - reduced surface
- Prickly lettuce - compass habit
- Milkweed - milky juice
- Mullein (overlapped in next section) - felty covering
- from hungry cattle
- Mullein (overlapped in previous section) - felty covering
- Yarrow - bitter taste
- Thistle - spines
- by air
- Milkweed
- Fleabane
- Goatsbeard
- Thistle
- Dandelion
- by fur
- Barbs of grasses (enlarged)
- Spanish needle
- Cocklebur
- Burdock
- Aster
- Fleabane
- Brown-eyed susan
- Chicory
- Sneezeweed
Extent: 1 sheet
1991/03/04: Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm (3.44243)
Date: March 4 1991Creator: Donnelly, Gerard T.
Type: Document
Description:Memo from Gerard Donnelly to Gerould Wilhelm reviewing a research proposal on the restoration and management of different Arboretum plant communities, including two overlay sheets on the maps in the research proposal.
Extent: 14 sheets