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
Tree of the month: Kentucky coffeetree, Gymnocladus dioicus (3.24400)
Date: 1996Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Description:Drawn for The Morton Arboretum Tree of the Month publication
Kentucky coffeetree, Gymnocladus dioicus
Mature specimen, few dry leaves still attached.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portrait: Gymnocladus dioicus (3.24587)
Date: 1969Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Description:Tree Portrait: Gymnocladus dioicus (Kentucky coffeetree)
Scale drawing of mature and immature trees, flowering and fruiting branches, dissection of flowers, and seed. Tree ages and heights above tree images.
Extent: 1 sheet
Winter Twigs, page 1 (3.24627)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 1 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include those with distinctive leaf scars, buds, and pith. Original identifying text has detached.
Illustrations are divided into three sections, depicted from top to bottom, left to right:
1) [Original text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE LEAF SCARS
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Catalpa
- Maple
- Sycamore
- Sumac
- Ash
- Flowering dogwood
- Beech
- Willow
- Oak
- Linden
- Alder
- Tulip [tree]
3) [Orignial text] SOME HAVE DISTINCTIVE PITH
- Black walnut
- Butternut
- Hackberry
- Tulip [tree]
- Kentucky coffee tree
- Oak
- Alder
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
Landscape with Houses and Trees (3.24647)
Date: 20th centuryCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of a hilly landscape with five houses, pasture, fences, farm land, a lake, a stream, a bridge, roads, a water wheel, and many trees. Trees are drawn to indicate general shape and each tree is identified. NATURE STUDY GUILD is stamped in purple on piece of board and glued at top right.
Trees depicted:
White pine -- Spruce -- Austrian pine -- Pear -- Sassafras -- Sumac -- Black willows -- Box elder --
Apple -- Red cedar -- Norway pine -- Yellow birch -- Black walnut -- Sour gum -- White cedar -- Poison sumac -- Tamarack -- White ash -- Chestnut oak -- Blue ash -- Red oak -- Beech -- Shagbark hickory -- Mockernut hickory -- Red maple -- Pignut hickory -- Wafer ash -- River birch -- Buckeye --
Shingle oak -- Bur oak -- Linden -- Cherry birch -- Shadbush -- Hill's oak -- White oak -- Sugar maple -- Black locust -- Black cherry -- Large-toothed poplar -- Cottonwood -- Waahoo -- Trembling aspen -- Witch-hazel -- Flowering dogwood -- Ironwood -- Chestnut -- Pin cherry -- Choke cherry -- Wild crab -- Wild plum -- Redbud -- Water beech -- Balm of Gilead -- Red mulberry -- Tulip tree -- Sycamore -- Bitternut hickory -- Slippery elm -- Butternut -- Swamp white -- Kentucky coffee tree -- Red ash -- Honey locust -- Hawthorne -- Lombardy poplars -- European alder -- Black ash -- Osage orange hedge -- Ailanthus -- Paw-paw -- Hackberry -- White birch -- American elm -- Catalpa -- Norway maple -- Weeping willow -- White wilow -- Pin oak -- Horse chestnut -- Mountian ash -- Pussy willow -- Fir -- Ginkgo -- Silver maple -- Scotch pine -- Silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.27681)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of Kentucky coffeetree leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Coffee Kentucky
- Gymnocladus dioicus
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.31802)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:A nature print outline of a Kentucky Coffeetree leaf, drawings of its seeds, a twig, and descriptive text.
Header: KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf
- seeds
- twig: salmon-colored pith
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Kentucky Coffeetree (3.31858)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Kentucky coffeetree tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and drawings of its seeds and twig. Tape adhered to bottom left corner indicates assigned letter.
Descriptive text in bottom left:
- R
Extent: 1 sheet
Larch trees camouflaging power towers near Puffer Lake (3.31909)
Date: January 1972Type: Photographic image
Description:Early plantings of larch near Puffer Lake help camouflage power towers. Rare Kentucky coffee-tree appears in the upper portion of the photo.
Extent: 1 negative
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. 03 (3.34568)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1969Type: Serial
Description:
- Introduced Woody Plants in the Flora of the Chicago Region (33-40)
- Climatological Summary (40)
- More is Less: the Riddle of Progress (41-45, 48)
- Kentucky Coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioicus: Pea Family (Leguminosae) (46-47)
- Arboretum News and Notes (48)
Extent: 16 pages
Sterling Morton Library, exterior, south side from paved walk (3.3753)
Date: 1960sType: Photographic image
Description:Sterling Morton Library, exterior, south side from paved walk
Kentucky Coffeetree on right
Extent: 1 photograph
Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffeetree) at University of Illinois (3.37763)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffeetree) at University of Illinois
Extent: 1 negative
Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffeetree) next to large building (3.37769)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky coffeetree) next to large building
Extent: 1 negative
2000/04/05: Village of Winnetka to George Ware (3.47259)
Date: April 5 2000Creator: Village of Winnetka
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from the Village of Winnetka to George Ware listing the species of Arboretum trees along Green Bay Road.
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch (Kentucky coffeetree), legume, seed (3.80021)
Date: 2005Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Gymnocladus dioicus (L.) K. Koch (Kentucky coffeetree), legume, seed. End of legume is open with one seed visible. Legume lies on dried grass.