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
Spruce Cones (3.24628)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:
[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
- Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- European larch -- Larix decidua
- Tamarack -- Larix laricina
- Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
- Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
Extent: 1 sheet
The Christmas Trees (3.24630)
Date: 1945Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of seven evergreen trees, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full trees with needle illustrations below divided into sections according to needles, twigs, and branches. The identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.
[Original header (not included with art): THE "CHRISTMAS TREES"]
Trees depicted, from left to right:
- Norway spruce -- Picea abies
- Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
- White spruce -- Picea glauca
- Hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
- White fir -- Abies concolor
- Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
- Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Extent: 1 sheet
Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24689)
Date: 1940sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #36: Balsam Fir
Illustration of cone cutout detached - see note below
Tree stump #37: We All Depend on Evergreens
Includes generalized illustrated identifying characteristics of various trees below, labeled as follows: Oak, Gum, Maple, Other hardwoods, Yellow Pines, Douglas Fir, Ponderosa pine, White pine, Hemlock, Redwood, Spruce, Cypress, Other softwoods.
Single cutout illustration depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout
American silver fir, or, Balm of Gilead fir [graphic] = Abies balsamifera / Bessa delt. Bessin sculp. (3.25048)
Date: 1810Creator: Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 23 x 15 cm., on sheet 28 x 19 cm.
Leaf Prints: Balsam Fir (3.27691)
Date: circa 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of balsam fir needle-like leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.
Identifying text:
- Fir balsam
- Abies balsamea
Extent: 1 sheet
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
Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature (3.57916)
Date: August 13 2015Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature
Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature (3.57917)
Date: August 13 2015Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature
Abies balsamea (balsam fir), cone, pollen (3.57918)
Date: April 17 2015Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, pollen
Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), habit, summer (3.57919)
Date: July 11 2002Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), habit, summer
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir) [left] and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas fir) [right], branch tips, buds, and needles (3.81509)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir) [left] and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas fir) [right], branch tips, needles, and buds.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81523)
Date: November 1998Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, spire like crown, other trees, and sky in view.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), branch with seed cones (3.81524)
Date: May 1966Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), branch with seed cones and needles visible
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81525)
Date: August 1969Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, roadside, road, power lines and sky in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81526)
Date: January 1975Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, sky in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81527)
Date: October 1973Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, seedling, fallen leaves in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81528)
Date: June 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, other trees, sky and clouds in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81529)
Date: May 1981Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, groundcover and rock in foreground, other trees in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), scales and seeds (3.81530)
Date: October 1974Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), scales and seeds, mossy groundcover.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cones (3.81531)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cones, branch, needles.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cone (3.81532)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cone, branch with needles.
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), crown habit (3.81533)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), crown habit, sky and clouds in background.
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones (3.81534)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), male cones and needle undersides.
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), bark, scales, seeds (3.81535)
Date: April 1978Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (balsam fir), bark, scales, seeds, and dirt in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81536)
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), female cone and needles
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81537)
Date: July 1981Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, forest and person in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones (3.81538)
Date: September 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones, branch, needles, sky in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), buds (3.81539)
Type: Photographic image
Description:
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), buds and needles
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81540)
Date: April 1983Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone, branch tips, and needles.
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81541)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), female cone and seeds
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81542)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone, needles, and branch
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81543)
Date: July 1977Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone, branch tips, and needles
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones and needles (3.81544)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), male cones, branch tips, and needles
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones (3.81545)
Date: September 1974Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), two male cones
Extent: 1 slide
Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones (3.81546)
Date: June 1962Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), three young cones and needles
Extent: 1 slide