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1952/11/28: Don [Wyman] to Lowell [Kammerer] (3.62182)
Date: November 28 1952Type: Document
Description:Postcard to Lowell Kammerer from Donald Wyman asking for a cutting of Forsythia suspensa sieboldii.
Extent: 1 postcard
1952/12/30: Donald Wyman to E.L. Kammerer (3.62189)
Date: December 30 1952Type: Document
Description:Letter indicating that the Arnold Arboretum would like to have cuttings from the Forsythia sieboldi.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/09/22: C.W. Wood to E.L. Kammerer (3.62644)
Date: September 22 1952Type: Document
Description:Thank you for order and regret that 2 other requests have been sold.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/11/20: George Avery to Clarence Godshalk (3.62657)
Date: November 20 1952Type: Document
Description:Letter asking for permission to use "12 Indispensable Plants to Use in Shade" by E.L. Kammerer in year-end issue of Plants& Gardens. Also handwritten note about meeting Mrs. Cudahy.
Extent: 1 sheet
1952/12/05: B.O. Mulligan to Dr. Donald Wyman (3.64459)
Date: December 5 1952Creator: Mulligan, Brian O.
Type: Document
Description:Correspondence between B.O. Mulligan and Dr. Donald Wyman regarding a plant exchange scheme.
Extent: 3 pages
1952/12/17: B.O. Mulligan and Dr. Donald Wyman (3.64460)
Date: December 17 1952Creator: Mulligan, Brian O.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of a correspondence between B.O. Mulligan and Dr. Donald Wyman regarding plans for a plant scheme.
Extent: 1 page
1952/08/22: Carl W. Fenninger to B.O. Mulligan (3.64461)
Date: October 22 1952Creator: Mulligan, Brian O.
Type: Document
Description:Copy of a correspondence between Carl W. Fenninger and B.O. Mulligan regarding paid dues for members.
Extent: 1 page
1952/09/03: Gordon M. Vaughan to the Morton Arboretum (3.93868)
Date: September 3 1952Creator: Vaughan, Gordon M.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mr. Gordon M. Vaughan to the staff at the Arboretum asking for advice on a conifer screen in his yard, specifically how high conifers can be trimmed and what shrubs he might plant underneath. He also asks about White Pine Blister Rust because one of his White Pines died suddenly and he suspects this disease to be the culprit.
1952/02/14: Frederic P. Lee to E. L. Kammerer (3.93871)
Date: February 14 1952Creator: Lee, Frederic P.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Frederic P. Lee to E. L. Kammerer saying that the Azalea handbook is at the printers, and should be forthcoming. Mr. Lee also notes that he combined the data Mr. Kammerer provided from the Arboretum with information from Mr. Eldred E. Green regarding Azaleas that are grown in the Chicago area.
1952/01/12: Mrs. E. H. Safford to The Morton Arboretum (3.93888)
Date: January 12 1952Creator: Safford, Mrs. E. H.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mrs. E. H. Safford asking for advice on creating a windbreak of trees on their farm in Northern Illinois. She says she wants to plant both fast growing plants and slower growing more permanent trees that will grow in their silty soil.
1952/03/25: Herbert F. Schwarz to E. L. Kammerer (3.93889)
Date: March 25 1952Creator: Schwarz, Herbert F.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Herbert F. Schwarz to E. L. Kammerer asking about the rate of growth and general characteristics of the native Red Maple (Acer rubrum) and its possible use as a shade tree.
1952/09/09: Mrs. H. MacLaren to The Morton Arboretum (3.93893)
Date: September 9 1952Creator: MacLaren, Mrs. H.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Mrs. H. MacLaren asking for the Arboretum's advice and opinion on a hedge for her front yard along the property line. She says she has received many recommendations and varying advice (including Korean Box, Taxus, Cotoneaster, and Viburnum opulus Nanum) but would like to know what the Arboretum's experts would recommend.
1952/02/10: Lahman V. Bower to The Morton Arboretum (3.93895)
Date: February 10 1952Creator: Bower, Lahman V.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lahman V. Bower to the staff at the Morton Arboretum asking which native species of Pinus is growing at the Dunes State Park. He also asks if any Tsuga Caroliniana specimens are successfully growing at the Arboretum.
1952/02/23: Lahman V. Bower to E. L. Kammerer (3.93897)
Date: February 23 1952Creator: Bower, Lahman V.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Lahman V. Bower thanking E. L. Kammerer for his letter regarding the Pines at Dunes State Park. Mr. Bower writes that he wondered if the Pines were an indigenous variety like the Juniper and Lepidoptera found there. He also writes that he found the "local Johnny-Appleseed" story very interesting.
1952/07/30: Sterling Morton to E. L. Kammerer (3.94012)
Date: July 30 1952Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to E. L. Kammerer asking for a tree recommendation to replace four European Lindens in the walled garden at his house in Lake Forest because the Lindens are messy and causing problems. Mr. Morton details the site conditions, and what he is looking for in a possible replacement tree.
1952/08/13: Sterling Morton to E. L. Kammerer (3.94014)
Date: August 13 1952Creator: Morton, Sterling
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Sterling Morton to E. L. Kammerer thanking him for the recommendations he made as to possible replacements for their European Lindens. He says they will come down to the Arboretum to see the trees Mr. Kammerer wrote about in person, and check the nurseries he mentioned to see about their availability.
1952/07/01: Dorothy E. Hansell to J. Nelson Spaeth (3.94018)
Date: July 1 1952Creator: Hansell, Dorothy
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Dorothy Hansell, Editor of the Garden Journal of the New York Botanic Garden, to J. Nelson Spaeth of the Department of Forestry at the University of Illinois. She asks for an article about The Morton Arboretum's collections and history for the Garden Journal, and mentions that if he could not provide such an article if he might recommend someone who could write it. The letter was forwarded to Clarence Godshalk.
1952/08/13: Dorothy E. Hansell to E. L. Kammerer (3.94019)
Date: August 13 1952Creator: Hansell, Dorothy
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Dorothy Hansell to E. L. Kammerer explaining that Dr. Spaeth at U of I had forwarded a copy of a letter sent by Clarence Godshalk that said Mr. Kammerer would be happy to write the requested article about the Morton Arboretum for the Garden Journal of the New York Botanic Garden. She provides details for the article and what they are looking for.
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