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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