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Handwritten notes infrastructure, building uses, and plant collections of the Morton Arboretum (3.64488)
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Notes on infrastructure, building uses, and plant collections of the Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 10 pages
Handwritten notes on history, the hedge garden, the old fashioned rose garden, and the ground cover collection (3.64489)
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Notes on history, the hedge garden, the old fashioned rose garden, and the ground cover collection.
Extent: 6 pages
Hedge Garden Inventory [historic document] (3.64490)
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Extent: 2 pages
Garden of Old Fashioned Roses [historic document] (3.64491)
Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Handwritten edits to paragraphs on the old fashioned roses garden, the administration building, and ground cover collection.
Extent: 5 pages
1947/02/17: E. L. Kammerer to Harvey Williams (3.93786)
Date: February 17 1947Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Harvey Williams expressing appreciation for his comments on the usefulness of the bulletin on hedges. Mr. Kammerer gives advice on how to manage the problem Mr. Williams is having with his red cedar hedge. He also mentions that the Arboretum is planning to establish a testing plot for trying out various pruning theories in connection with the existing trial hedge garden.
1949/12/19: A. G. Kampmeier to The Morton Arboretum (3.93809)
Date: December 19 1949Creator: Kampmeier, A. G.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from A. G. Kampmeier to the Arboretum, saying that he would like to copy their hedge garden in miniature, and asks for a list of hedges used and any plans/pictures they might have of the Arboretum's hedge garden layout. He also asks which shrubs would work best in Boxwood shapes.
1950/01/05: E. L. Kammerer to A. G. Kampmeier (3.93810)
Date: January 5 1950Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to A. G. Kampmeier in response to his previous letter. Mr. Kammerer provides a detailed description of the Arboretum's Formal Hedge Garden layout, including the garden of old roses designed after the Holly Garden at the Governor's Palace in Williamburg, VA. He also mentions including an informational pamphlet with a general map, due to a lack of a detailed map of the hedge garden itself, and also a copy of the Arboretum's Bulletin of Popular Information on hedges.
1953/11/04: E. L. Kammerer to Jacques L. Legendre (3.93903)
Date: November 4 1953Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer in response to a postcard from Jacques L. Legendre about his European trip. Mr. Kammerer describes the state of the Arboretum's Cornus officinalis, and writes about the Crimson Pygmy Barberry in the hedge collection that didn't last through the summer.
1958/12/11: George M. Theurer to E. L. Kammerer (3.93955)
Date: December 11 1958Creator: Theurer, George M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George M. Theurer to E. L. Kammerer in which he writes that he recently visited the Arboretum and saw the Euonymus alata (Winged Euonymus) hedge on display and now plans to plant some as a screen. Mr. Theurer asks how far apart he should space the plants and also asks a clarifying question about its nomenclature, writing that in catalogs it is listed as Euonymus alatus rather than Euonymus alata.
1959/09/28: Mr. F. Piedras to E. L. Kammerer (3.93996)
Date: September 28 1959Creator: Piedras, F.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mr. F. Piedras to E. L. Kammerer asking about hedges in the Arboretum's trial hedge garden, and the difference between Mountain Ninebark (Physocarpus monogynus) and Dwarf Illinois Ninebark (P. intermedius parvifolia).
1930/12/09: E. L. Kammerer to R. Wyman (3.94258)
Date: December 9 1930Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to R. Wyman of Framingham Nurseries requesting prices for Taxus canadensis hedges that Mr. Van Gemert saw on the property when he visited, as they would like to include them in the experimental hedge garden they are starting at The Morton Arboretum.
1953/11/09: Jacques Legendre to E. L. Kammerer (3.94335)
Date: November 9 1953Creator: Legendre, Jacques L.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lacques Legendre to E. L. Kammerer requesting seeds of Cornus officinalis, Cornus alternifolia, and Cotoneaster multiflora from Mr. Nordine and offering to send more Berberis Crimson Pigmy [Pygmy] specimens for the hedge trial.
1953/11/23: E. L. Kammerer to Jacques Legendre (3.94336)
Date: November 23 1953Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Jacques Legendre letting him know Mr. Nordine has made note of his request for Cornus officinalis, Cornus alternifolia, and Cotoneaster multiflora seeds and will send them when he begins distributing seeds. Mr. Kammerer also thanks Mr. Legendre for offering to replace the Berberis Crimson Pygmy that failed in the hedge garden.
1953/11/25: Jacques Legendre to E. L. Kammerer (3.94337)
Date: November 25 1953Creator: Legendre, Jacques L.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jacques Legendre to E. L. Kammerer notifying him that he is sending 50 Berberis Crimson Pigmy for hedge planting at The Morton Arboretum. He also writes that he will try to find Mr. Kammerer before or after the upcoming symposium or at an upcoming meeting.
1953/12/07: E. L. Kammerer to Jacques Legendre (3.94338)
Date: December 7 1953Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Jacques Legendre letting him know the Crimson Pygmy Barberry plants arrived December 1st and have been heeled in the nursery beds for spring planting. He also writes that Mr. Nordine shipped Cotoneaster multiflora seeds and will soon send two Cornus specimens as well.
1938/10/11: Stanley A. Morse to The Morton Arboretum (3.94366)
Date: October 11 1938Creator: Morse, Stanley A.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Stanley A. Morse to The Morton Arboretum requesting identification of photos taken of test hedges at the Arboretum.
1938/10/15: E. L. Kammerer to Stanley A. Morse (3.94367)
Date: October 15 1938Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Stanley A. Morse identifying the hedges in his photographs as Physocarpus monogynus and Ribes alpinum. Mr. Kammerer also thanks Mr. Morse for sending prints of his hedge photographs.
1938/12/01: E.L. Kammerer to Stanley A. Morse (3.94374)
Date: December 1 1938Creator: Kammerer, E. Lowell
Type: Document
Description:Letter from E. L. Kammerer to Stanley A. Morse requesting prints of the hedge garden photographs Mr. Morse had sent for identification.
1938/12/02: Stanley A. Morse to E. L. Kammerer (3.94375)
Date: December 2 1938Creator: Morse, Stanley A.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Stanley A. Morse to E. L. Kammerer replying to his letter requesting prints of hedge garden photos, noting that they are being prepared and will be sent shortly.
1938/12/08: Stanley A. Morse to E. L. Kammerer (3.94377)
Date: December 8 1938Creator: Morse, Stanley A.
Type: Document
Description:A letter from Stanley A. Morse to E. L. Kammerer accompanying requested prints of the Hedge Garden.