Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit (3.24626)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of variety of leaves, buds, plant habits and bark, created to accompany " Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes identifying illustrations of source trees and identifying text in pen and ink.
Divided into five sections, from top to bottom, left to right:
1) FRAGRANCE IN BRUISED LEAVES
- Sweetbriar - fragrance of green apple sauce
- Sweet shrub - scent of strawberries
- Fragrant sumac - aromatic with a trace of lemon
- Bayberry - aromatic with a hint of balsam
- Mother-of-thyme - fragrant, with a suggestion of new lumber
- Jeffrey pine - a sharp tang of orange peel
- Arbor vitae - in hot sun a smell of "wild strawberries with a hint of resin" - Wilder
- Balsam fir - aromatic and spicy
- Sweet cicely - odor of anise, or licorice
- Sassafras - "fragrance of lemon and a thousand spices" - Thoreau
- Sweet bay - a culinary fragrance reminiscent of soups and stews
- Spice-bush - smooth aroma of mingled spices
- Hay-scented fern - fragrance of new-mown hay
- Sweet fern - resinous and spicy
- Southernwood - smooth sweet fragrance
- Chaste tree - mint with a hint of spice
- Cherry birch - cool, smooth flavor of wintergreen
- Yellow birch - mild taste of wintergreen
- Black cherry - taste of bitter almond
- Slippery elm - inner bark pleasantly mucilaginous
- Juniper - a pleasant aromatic taste
- Sumac - a berry on the tongue gives a taste of "Indian lemonade"
- Balm of gilead - resinous and strongly aromatic
- Flowering quince - good to put in a pocket, or with hankerchiefs
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
Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.
Header:
- TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), bark, trunk (3.61107)
Date: October 2000Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), bark, trunk
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), cone, mature (3.61108)
Date: May 30 2007Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), cone, mature
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, fall (3.61109)
Date: October 2000Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, fall
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, fall (3.61110)
Date: October 2000Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, fall
Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, spring (3.61111)
Date: April 16 1998Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Pinus jeffreyi (Jeffrey Pine), habit, spring