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
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: Ailanthus (3.27656)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of Ailanthus leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Ailanthus
Extent: 1 sheet
Trees of the Eastern Hemisphere That Can Be Grown Here (3.33822)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a cross-section of a hilly landscape with several types of trees. The trees are drawn in silhouette and a few houses are scattered in-between them. 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 OF THE EASTERN HEMIPSHERE / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE
- THESE FOREIGN TREES LACK THE DISPLAY / OF BRILLIANT FALL COLORING, THAT CHARACTER- / IZES OUR NATIVE SPECIES -------
- The color line about each of these trees indicates its / characteristic fall coloring -------
russian-olive -- [wych] Scots elm -- Norway spruce -- Scots pine -- Lombardy poplar -- [silver] white poplar -- European larch -- Japanese larch -- weeping willow -- European black alder -- camperdown elm -- European white birch -- English oak -- European linden (lime) -- Amur cherry -- Amur maple -- oriental crab -- oriental pear -- sycamore maple -- Serbian spruce -- Chinese juniper -- [Irish] common juniper -- horse-chestnut -- mountain-ash -- Nordmann's fir -- ginkgo -- [ailanthus] tree of heaven -- English ash
Extent: 1 sheet
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 Stylish House: 1856 to 1881 (3.34279)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A version of an illustration from Reading the Landscape, Chapter 13: "The Stylish House or Fashions as an Ecological Factor," depicting a home and its landscaped yard. This illustration shows the view of the house and yard during the mid- to late-19th century.
Text and images from top to bottom, left to right:
- Jonathan and Patience / and / David / John / Paul / Daniel / Ruth / Rachel / and / Rover / and / Dobbin
- 1856 / to / 1881
- [sketch of a hanging lamp]
- [drawing showing a bird's-eye view of the house and grounds surrounded by a fence, including the following plants and trees:]
- elderberry
- Richmond cherry
- box elder
- wild plum
- mint
- rhubarb
- maiden blush
- sweet bough
- russet apple
- Damson plums
- Ailanthus
- tawny day lily
- feverfew
- flags
- pinks
- bleeding heart
- red peony
- Johnny-jump-ups
- sweet shrub
- crimson rambler
- lily of the valley
- white pine
- Harison's yellow rose
- snowball bush
- white lilac
- cabbage rose
- [sketches of two vases with flowers to the right of the illustration]
Extent: 1 slide
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
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bark, twig (3.69057)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bark, twig
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bark, twig (3.69058)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bark, twig
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, flower (3.69059)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, flower
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral (3.69060)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral (3.69061)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral (3.69062)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, lateral
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, terminal (3.69063)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), bud, terminal
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, spring (3.69064)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, spring
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, summer (3.69065)
Date: August 31 1976Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, summer
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, summer (3.69066)
Date: August 31 1976Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, summer
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, young (3.69067)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habit, young
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat (3.69068)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat (3.69069)
Date: July 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat (3.69070)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), habitat
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), inflorescence (3.69071)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), inflorescence
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), infructescence (3.69072)
Date: July 21 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), infructescence
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, lower surface (3.69073)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, lower surface
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, lower surface (3.69074)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, lower surface
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring (3.69075)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring (3.69076)
Date: May 17 2008Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring (3.69077)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, spring
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface (3.69078)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Brown, Deborah J. G.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface (3.69079)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface (3.69080)
Date: October 10 2011Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface
Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface (3.69081)
Date: May 17 2012Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Ailanthus altissima (Tree Of Heaven), leaf, upper surface