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
Malus coronaria, Pommier ordant and Malus dioïca, Pommier dioïque (3.25058)
Date: 1815Creator: Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835.
Type: Print
Description:Flowering branch, leaves, and flowers of Malus cononaria
Fruit, flower, and leaf outline of Malus dioïca
Tome 6, plate no. 44 in Traité des arbres et arbustes que l'on cultive en France en pleine terre / Duhamel du Monceau, Henri Louis. Paris, 1801-1819
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Wild Sweet Crabapple (3.27722)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of wild sweet crabapple leaves, stems, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Crab wild
- Pyrus coronaria
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees Native To This Region (3.33823)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of hill with several types of trees growing down its slope. The trees are drawn in silhouette and are grouped into four categories based on location. Each tree is also accompanied by a line of color across the top indicating the color of its leaves in Fall as well as an outline of its leaf below.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO THIS REGION
- THE COLOR LINE OVER EACH TREE / INDICATES ITS CHARACTERISTIC / FALL COLORING. NATIVE TREES / GIVE US THE BEST COLOR
- TREES OF OUR UPLANDS
- witch-hazel -- white oak -- red oak -- Hill's oak -- sugar maple -- ironwood -- shadbush -- shagbark hickory -- black cherry -- blue ash -- bur oak -- white ash -- linden
- TREES of the EDGE of the FOREST
- aspen -- sumac -- choke cherry -- wild crabapple -- hawthorn -- wild plum
- TREES of our LOWLANDS
- black ash -- slippery elm -- American elm -- walnut -- hackberry -- cottonwood -- black willow -- silver maple
- TREES of our SWAMPS
- [sour gum] tupelo -- yellow birch -- tamarack -- red maple -- poison sumac
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 02 (3.34509)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- Flowering Crabapples You Should Know (17-22)
- Tyrannopolis vs. A Place to Live: The First Oikos Conference (23-25)
- As Nature Shows Them (26-27)
- Pagoda Dogwood, Alternate-leaved Dogwood. Cornus alternifolia: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) (28-29)
- Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary (30-32)
Extent: 16 pages
Wild crabapple flowers (3.36526)
Date: May 9 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:A close-up view of several wild crabapple flowers growing along the Illinois Prairie Path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Wild crabapple (3.36527)
Date: May 9 1964Type: Photographic image
Description:Several wild crabapple flowers growing on trees along the Illinois Prairie Path.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Malus coronaria (3.495)
Date: 1903Creator: Rehder, Alfred
Type: Photographic image
Description:Wild sweet crabapple (Malus cornaria) tree blooming in springtime
Extent: 1 photograph
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, branch (3.57141)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, branch
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57142)
Date: November 4 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57143)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57144)
Date: February 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57145)
Date: February 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57146)
Date: November 4 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk (3.57147)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, trunk
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, twig (3.57148)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, twig
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, twig (3.57149)
Date: November 4 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bark, twig
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, lateral (3.57150)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, lateral
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal (3.57151)
Date: February 17 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal (3.57152)
Date: November 4 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal (3.57153)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), bud, terminal
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature (3.57154)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature (3.57155)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature (3.57156)
Date: November 4 2015Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), fruit, mature
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), habit, spring (3.57157)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), habit, spring
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), habit, spring (3.57158)
Date: March 25 2009Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), habit, spring
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), inflorescence (3.57159)
Date: May 2 2000Creator: Kim, Kunso
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), inflorescence
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), leaf, summer (3.57160)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), leaf, summer
Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), leaf, summer (3.57161)
Date: September 18 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus coronaria (Wild Sweet Crabapple), leaf, summer