January Calendar (3.19467)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Calendar for the month of January consisting of five rows and seven columns depicting days and dates from Sunday through Saturday, the 1st through the 31st. Each square has a date plus illustration and text, some of which anticipates the coming Spring and some which show reminders of the past year.
Header: January
Text and illustrations, from top to bottom, left to right:
- (Friday, 1) [image of dogwood stems and buds] flowering dogwood is ready for Spring
- (Saturday, 2) [image of hemlock needles and cones] small cones drip from the hemlock tips -
- (Sunday, 3) [image of unidentified stems and fruit]
- (Monday, 4) [image of one chickadee and a birdhouse]
- (Tuesday, 5) [image of two chickadees and a birdhouse] chikca-dees stay to crack their seeds
- (Wednesday, 6) [image of evergreen needles and star magnolia stems and buds] star mag-nolia buds are pale against evergreens
- (Thursday, 7) [image of long-eared owl on branch of Norway spruce] long-eared owls look down from Norway spruce trees
- (Friday, 8) [image of 2 pellets on ground beneath evergreen branch] 2 pellets under an owl roost contain skeletons of 2 deer mice
- (Saturday, 9) [image of small animal bones on ground] when an owl pellet is pulled apart, evidence of sudden death is re-vealed
- (Sunday, 10) [image of euonymus stems and fruit] Euonymus still holds some of the "little hearts bursting with love"
- (Monday, 11) [image of birch stems, cones, and catkins] wind and birds have shattered birch cones but catkins are ready for Spring
- (Tuesday, 12) [image of zumi crabapple stems and fruit] Zumi crabs still hold their fruit
- (Wednesday, 13) [image of one cardinal and a birdhouse] the cardinal is back now that we have sunflower seeds again
- (Thursday, 14) [images of canker-worms on a dogwood twig] on a dogwood twig, canker worms are ready for Spring
- (Friday, 15) [images of evergreens and a hawthorn] hoar frost is on the hawthorns ---
- (Saturday, 16) [image of redbud stems, buds, and fruit] on red-bud, flower buds are ready for next Spring, and pods recall last Spring's flowers
- (Sunday, 17) [image of a bird on a tree branch]
- (Monday, 18) [image of sycamore trunks and branches] sycamore bark
- (Tuesday, 19) [image of trees and a trail] evergreen trail
- (Wednesday, 20) [image of rhododendron stems and leaves] Rhododendron leaves pointing down say it's COLD!
- (Thursday, 21) [image of a white Oak] white oaks hold last summer's leaves on lower branches
- (Friday, 22) [image of a Norway spruce] Norway spruce holds long cones
- (Saturday, 23) [image of pixie-cup lichens through a magnifying glass] there are Pixie-cup lichens in the spruce plot
- (Sunday, 24) [image of two ostrich ferns] the fertile fronds of ostrich fern stand stiff and dark
- (Monday, 25) [image of American cranberry-bush stems and fruit] high-bush cranberry wears puffs of snow
- (Tuesday, 26) [image of winter wren in brush] the winter wren weaves through low brush
- (Wednesday, 27) [image of hazel stems and catkins] hazel catkins feel softer
- (Thursday, 28) [image of vernal witch-hazel and close-up of flower] vernal witch hazel is in bloom
- (Friday, 29) [image of one set of raccoon tracks] raccoon tracks are plentiful after a mild night
- (Saturday, 30) [image of two sets of deer mouse tracks with trail mark between] white-footed deer mouse hops past
- (Sunday, 31) [image of three sets of Junco bird tracks] juncoes hop too
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.23997)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.23998)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.23999)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.24000)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.24073)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus ioensis 'Plena' = [graphic] Bechtel's crabapple / Nancy Shinn Hart. (3.24291)
Date: 1986Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 53 cm. + 1 preliminary sketch (graphite, b&w 26 x 36 cm.) + 4 photomechanical prints (b&w 22 x 36 cm.)
Malus x zumi var. calocarpa = [graphic] 'Morning Sun' crabapple / Nancy Hart Stieber. (3.24292)
Date: 1993Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 30 x 45 cm., on board 39 x 57 cm.
Flos Mali = [graphic] the apple tree blossom / John Edwards delt. William Darling Scupl. (3.25345)
Date: 1769Creator: Edwards, John, 1742.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : etching and engraving, hand-colored plate mark 36 x 26 cm., on sheet 50 x 27 cm.
Leaf Prints: Apple (3.27658)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of Apple tree leaves, stems, buds, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Apple
Extent: 1 sheet
Leaf Prints: Crabapple (3.27683)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of crabapple leaves, stems, and flowers on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Crab
Extent: 1 sheet
Malus sylvestrus = Crab apple / AO Dowden. (3.29538)
Date: 1971Creator: Dowden, Anne Ophelia, 1907-2007
Type: Painting
Extent: 1 art reproduction : half-tone, color 33 x 26 cm.
Crabapples being transplanted with frozen balls (3.2956)
Date: 1930sType: Photographic image
Description:Crabapple trees with frozen balls for transplanting in winter
Extent: 1 negative
Tree Portraits: Crabapple (3.31893)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a crabapple, or possibly hawthorn, tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf.
Extent: 1 sheet
Simonds Road and road to Lake Marmo, view toward Malus Collection (3.32740)
Date: 1934Type: Photographic image
Description:Simonds Road and road to Lake Marmo, view toward Malus Collection
Extent: 1 negative
Crabapple Collection alongside road (3.32741)
Date: 1935Type: Photographic image
Description:Crabapple Collection alongside road
Extent: 1 negative
Malus alongside Residence Drive near Morton Residence (3.32753)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Malus alongside Residence Drive near Morton Residence
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Road curving to left at Crabapple Hollow in spring (3.33197)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1935Type: Photographic image
Description:Forest Road curving to left at Crabapple Hollow in spring, east of Jake Mey land
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. 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
Hedge Garden at The Morton Arboretum (3.36397)
Date: July 21 2014Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Photographic image
Description:View toward a crabapple (Malus) tree spreading its branches at the center of the partierre in the Hedge Garden at The Morton Arboretum in the summer
Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark (3.37736)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark
Extent: 1 negative
Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark (3.37737)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark
Extent: 1 negative
Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark (3.37738)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Bridge grafting on Malus to save tree after 1934 house moving had damaged bark
Extent: 1 negative
Crabapple (Malus) Collection, Sunday afternoon visitors (3.37793)
Date: May 13 1957Type: Photographic image
Description:Crabapple (Malus) Collection, Sunday afternoon visitors
Extent: 1 photograph
Visitors around crabapple with white flowers in bloom at Arborfest (3.55521)
Date: April 25 1987Creator: Filip, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Visitors around crabapple with white flowers in bloom at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
Visitors in front of crabapple and lilac in bloom at Arborfest (3.55522)
Date: April 25 1987Creator: Filip, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Visitors in front of crabapple and lilac in bloom at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
Close-up of crowd looking at crabapple in bloom at Arborfest (3.55528)
Date: April 25 1987Creator: Filip, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Close-up of crowd looking at crabapple in bloom at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
Crowd by crabapple in bloom listening to talk near Visitor Center at Arborfest (3.55529)
Date: April 25 1987Creator: Filip, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Crowd by crabapple in bloom listening to talk near Visitor Center at Arborfest
Extent: 1 slide
Crowd in front of crabapple in bloom at Arborfest (3.55531)
Date: April 25 1987Creator: Filip, Bob
Type: Photographic image
Description:Crowd in front of crabapple in bloom at Arborfest
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
Group of the Malus, Pyrus , Cotoneaster, Aronia, and Potentilla [planting plan] (3.5682)
Date: circa 1924Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:Plan has Joy Morton's signature of approval. The collection is located in the Thornhill area.
Extent: 1 sheet
Group of the Malus, Pyrus, Cotoneaster, Aronia, and Potentilla [planting plan - preliminary] (3.5684)
Date: circa 1924Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:The collection is located in the Thornhill area. This is an earlier and presumably preliminary plan.
Extent: 1 sheet
A Design Planting Plan for the Crabapple Display Group, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois [additional markings added] (3.5755)
Date: circa 1985Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Plan
Description:Plan for development of the National Crabapple Test Area located in the Thornhill area. Includes notes (Hand, Trench, Auger) and markings in blue pencil.
Extent: 1 sheet
Crabapple Injury Assessment, East Malus Collection, The Morton Arboretum, 1984-1985 (3.6039)
Date: 1985Creator: Green, Tom
Type: Map
Extent: 1 sheet