Winter Buds, #2 (3.19512)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Large poster depicting 12 types of winter buds, bound in green tape.
Illustrations and text, from left to right, top to bottom:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 sheet
Nyssa sylvatica [graphic] / A. Tyznik. (3.24598)
Date: 1966Creator: Tyznik, Anthony
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 39 x 31 cm.
Winter Twigs, page 4 (3.24636)
Date: 1943Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Page 4 of 4, illustrations showing identifying characteristics of different types of winter twigs, created to accompany "Winter Twigs" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. 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) [Original text] TREES WITH FLATTENED YELLOWISH BUDS
- Bitternut hickory -- Carya cordiformis
- Witch-hazel -- Hamamelis virginiana
- Shadbush -- Amelanchier canadensis
- Beech -- Fagus grandifolia
- Black walnut -- Juglans nigra
- Butternut -- Juglans cinerea
- Sassafras -- Sassafras albidum
- Shagbark hickory -- Carya ovata
- Linden -- Tilia americana
- Mountain ash -- Sorbus
- Sour gum -- Nyssa sylvatica
- Silver poplar -- Populus alba
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
Tree Portraits: Sour Gum (3.31798)
Date: 1940 – 1950Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a Sour Gum tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf, a drawing of fruit, and descriptive text.
Header: SOUR GUM
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- leaf: brilliant scarlet in Fall; alternate
- fruits
- tree: along edges of swamps
Extent: 1 sheet
Tree Portraits: Tupelo (3.31820)
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Painting
Description:Color silhouette of a tupelo tree, including a nature print outline of a leaf and a drawing of its fruit. Tab taped to bottom right corner includes descriptive text and assigned number.
Descriptive text in bottom right tab:
- leaf glossy
- veins deeply - indented
- 38
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
Education charts: Twigs, #1 (3.34235)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting 12 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:
- bitternut hickory
- witch-hazel
- shadbush
- beech
- black walnut
- butternut
- sassafras
- shagbark hickory
- linden
- mountain ash
- sour gum
- silver poplar
Extent: 1 slide
Exhibits: Beall Woods trees, detailed bark and leaves (3.34252)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An exhibit board created by Elizabeth Zimmerman for The Morton Arboretum, depicting detailed drawings of the leaves, bark, and a flower found on trees in Beall Woods.
Labels:
- Hackberry
- Tulip - / "Yellow Poplar"
- Sugarberry
- Dogwood
- Sour Gum -
- Sweet / Gum -
Extent: 1 slide
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 03 (3.34510)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- On Clarence Godshalk’s Retirement (33-35)
- A Colleague’s Appreciation (36-37)
- Looking Back (38-40)
- A New Director for the Arboretum (41)
- Climatological Summary (41)
- In Memoriam: E. Lowell Kammerer 1906-1966 (42-43)
- Sour Gum, Black Gum, Tupelo, Papperidge. Nyssa sylvatica: Sour Gum Family (Nyssaceae) (44-45)
- Seed Exchange (46-48)
Extent: 16 pages
2000/04/05: Village of Winnetka to George Ware (3.47259)
Date: April 5 2000Creator: Village of Winnetka
Type: Document
Description:Facsimile from the Village of Winnetka to George Ware listing the species of Arboretum trees along Green Bay Road.
Extent: 1 sheet
Fall Color Report, Highlights, October 20-26, 2017 (3.63009)
Date: October 2017Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description: Reported fall color at The Morton Arboretum for October 20-26, 2017
Fall Color Report, Highlights, September 29-October 5, 2017 (3.63015)
Date: October 2017Creator: The Morton Arboretum
Type: Video
Description: Reported fall color at The Morton Arboretum for September 29-October 5, 2017
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), bark (3.72582)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), grayish brown bark
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves on branch, fall color (3.72583)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), scarlet leaves on branch, fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), close-up of leaves (3.72584)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" lustrous dark green above glaucesent beneath, some with reddish blush
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves (3.72585)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" lustrous dark green above glaucesent beneath, some with reddish blush
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves (3.72586)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" lustrous dark green above glaucesent beneath, some with reddish blush
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), branch with leaves, fall color (3.72587)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant yellow-orange-red-purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves, fall color (3.72588)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant yellow-orange-red-purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves, fall color (3.72589)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant yellow-orange-red-purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves, fall color (3.72590)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant yellow-orange-red-purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves, fall color (3.72591)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant yellow-orange-red-purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), close-up of leaves, fall color (3.72592)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves, fall color (3.72593)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), close-up of leaves, fall color (3.72594)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), branches, fall color (3.72595)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), branches with leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), branches with leaves, fall color (3.72596)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), branches with leaves, fall color (3.72597)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant orange-red fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), close-up of leaves, fall color (3.72598)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), close-up of leaves, fall color (3.72599)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), leaves - alternate simple ovate to obovate or elliptic, 3-6" brilliant reddish purple fall color
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, tree form (3.72600)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, tree form, upright oval outline
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, tree form (3.72601)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, tree form, upright oval outline
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, young tree form (3.72602)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, young tree form
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, mature tree form (3.72603)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Hagstrom, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), growth habit, mature tree form
Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), young bark (3.72604)
Date: 2005 – 2012Creator: Franklin, Jeff
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nyssa sylvatica Marsh. (tupelo), young bark, dark gray