Arboretum Landscape Teaching Aid Series: Three Norway Spruces (3.19506)
Date: 1940 – 1960Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Primarily textual teaching aid depicting Arboretum landscape. This material describes the three Norway spruce trees planted by Joy Morton, Wirt Morton, and Sterling Morton, including a pasted Arboretum map of their location on the grounds.
Header: THREE Norway Spruces [image of three stylized trees] were planted by THREE Mortons / JOY MORTON / WIRT MORTON / STERLING MORTON
Text and illustrations from top to bottom:
- [Depicted in stylized scroll] THE RECORD: Three Tall Trees [Illustration of three trees] On Forest Road [followed by an arrow pointing downward to map below]
- map: the 3 spruces [arrow pointing downward to spot on map where trees are located, on Forest Road]. Label in lower right: GUIDE MAP of THE MORTON ARBORETUM LISLE, ILLINOIS
- text below map: *these trees are one answer to the ever occurring question: HOW FAST DO TREES GROW?
Extent: 1 sheet
Arbor day: its history and observance (3.20904)
Date: 1896Creator: Egleston, Nathaniel Hillyer, 1822-1912.
Type: Book
Extent: 80 p. illus. 23 cm.
Arbor day (3.21121)
Date: 1888Creator: Furnas, Robert W. (Robert Wilkinson), 1824-1905, ed.
Type: Book
Extent: 184 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.
Arbor day (3.21122)
Date: 1888Creator: Furnas, Robert W. (Robert Wilkinson), 1824-1905, ed.
Type: Book
Description:
Digitized and available online:
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008596253
Extent: 184 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.
Arbor day : its history, observation, spirit and significance with practical selections on tree-planting and conservation, and a nature anthology (3.23311)
Date: 1909Type: Book
Extent: xxix, 360 p. 19 cm.
Joy Morton posed with shovel at Dawes Arboretum American Elm Tree Dedication to his father (3.3172)
Date: November 7 1927Creator: Mueller, M. H.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton posed with shovel at Dawes Arboretum American Elm Tree Dedication to his father.
Dawes Arboretum obtained the tree for planting from Arbor Lodge, the Morton family home in Nebraska. The American Elm was dedicated to Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, by his descendants.
Extent: 1 photograph
Joy Morton posed with an American Elm dedicated to his father at Dawes Arboretum (3.3174)
Date: November 7 1927Creator: Mueller, M. H.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Joy Morton posed with an American Elm dedicated to his father at Dawes Arboretum.
Dawes Arboretum obtained the tree for planting from Arbor Lodge, the Morton family home in Nebraska. The American Elm was dedicated to Julius Sterling Morton, the founder of Arbor Day, by his descendants.
Extent: 1 photograph
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 01 No. 03 (3.34464)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1965Type: Serial
Description:
- Outstanding Plants in Review (1-5)
- Planting a Small Tree (Up to one inch in diameter) (6-7)
- Rhus typhina L. dissecta Rehd. Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac: (Anacardiaceae) Cashew Family (8-9)
- Planning the Arboretum (10-12)
- Talking Turkey (13)
- Arboretum News and Notes (14-16)
(links to these articles can be found below under RELATED OBJECTS)
Extent: 16 pages
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 08 No. 01 (3.34577)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1972Type: Serial
Description:
- All the Things Trees Are (1-5)
- The Man Who Started Arbor Day (6-8)
- Planting a Tree: From a Letter by Loren Eiseley (8)
- A New Arbor Day (9-11)
- Trees, Arbor Day, and a New Ethic (12-14)
- Climatological Summary (13)
- Arbor Day (14-15)
- “Our Grandest Arbor Day” (15)
- Arbor Day Centennial (16)
Extent: 16 pages
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