Elm Trees: From China to The Morton Arboretum (3.106916)
Date: 1990sCreator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:An undated article written by Dr. Ware that appeared in The Honker, newsletter of the DuPage Audubon Society.
Extent: 1 sheet
Squirrel on a Snowy Ledge (3.107009)
Date: January 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:A squirrel seated on a ledge covered in snow.
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Spring 1992 (3.107050)
Date: 1992Creator: Way, Carol
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Spring 1992 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: Fischer Field, its origins and development as a test plot area for hybrid trees; the Outpost Wildflower Garden maintained by a volunteer group identified as VIEW (Volunteers in Education Work) and later WISH (Workers in Sylvan Horticulture); and START (Students Teamed in Arboretum Restoration Tasks) a volunteer group formed for high school students interested in working in restoration at the Arboretum. Volunteer opportunities. Volunteer information, lists of new volunteers and classes and programs are featured.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer 1992 (3.107051)
Date: 1992Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Summer 1992 Branches Newsletter contains articles on the following: Hatch Meadow and the transplanting project of Green Ash trees; and two Arboretum authors, Ian MacPhail and Charles Lewis and their books, Rearranging the World and Green Nature/Human Nature. The first book is a study of the work of the scientists at New Harmony, Indiana; Charles-Alexander Lesueur, Thomas Say, Andre Michaux and Francois Andre Michaux and the second is about the relationship between people and nature. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, trainings, classes and events are also included.
Extent: ;6 pages
Branches: Newsletter of the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Winter 1992 (3.107052)
Date: 1992Creator: Halperin, Marilyn J.
Type: Serial
Description:This digitized issue of the Winter 1992 Branches Newsletter features the following articles: Integrated Pest Management or IPM, the use of botanical products and predatory insects to control pests, as it was deployed in Greenhouse 9; and an extensive write up on the volunteer Appreciation evening that year. Volunteer opportunities, lists of new and continuing volunteers, trainings, classes and events are also featured.
Extent: ;6 pages
Nelumbo L., bud (3.107471)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nelumbo L., yellow and pink bud; round, cupped leaves in background.
Nelumbo L., flower (3.107476)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nelumbo L., white flower with pink tinged tips; round, cupped leaves in background.
Nelumbo L., habit (3.107484)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nelumbo L., habit; clumps of round, cupped leaves with white flowers; water and garden landscape in background.
Nelumbo L., leaves (3.107486)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Nelumbo L., round, cupped, green leaves on stems; white flower bud.
Victoria cruziana A.D.Orb. (Santa Cruz water lily), form (3.107547)
Date: August 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Victoria cruziana A.D.Orb. (Santa Cruz water lily), form, green pads with reddish-purple rims and veining, white flowers above water surface, reddish-purple flowers below water surface, water in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Narcissus papyraceus flowers, stems, and leaves (3.108002)
Date: January 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Tall single medium green stems supporting multiple stems with many clusters of white flowers
Narcissus - group flowers, stems, and leaves (3.108045)
Date: March 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Multiple bright yellow trumpet shaped flower heads with six same colored ruffled petals. Each on a single green stem with thin rounded leaves.
Scilla mischtschenkoana 'Tubergeniana' (squill), flowers, stems, and leaves (3.108106)
Date: March 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Scilla mischtschenkoana 'Tubergeniana' (squill), group of plants with white flowers on a single stem with green broad oval leaves
Final Performance Report to the Institute of Museum Services for a 1990 Conservation Grant (3.108569)
Date: May 31 1992Type: Document
Description:Final report to the Institute of Museum Services supporting a 1990 grant to The Morton Arboretum for study and conservation of collections adjacent to the south border berms created for the I88/I355 construction.
Extent: 5 sheets
Seeds from the Edge (3.11026)
Date: December 21 1991 – March 20 1992Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Article
Lacebark Pine (Pinus bungeana) (3.11027)
Date: December 21 1991 – March 20 1992Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
The Arboretum’s Architectural Heritage: Part III (3.11028)
Date: December 21 1991 – March 20 1992Creator: Doty, Carol L.
Type: Article
Elm Breeding and Improvement at The Morton Arboretum (3.11030)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1992Creator: Ware, George
Type: Article
Eastern Redbud (Cercis Canadensis L.) (3.11031)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1992Creator: Clark, Ross C., Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Thirty Years of Prairie Reconstruction (3.11032)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1992Creator: Johnson, Craig B., Rosenthal, Marcia W.
Type: Article
Annette Rossi Named Development Administrator (3.11033)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1992Type: Article
Kissing Cousins: Sumacs and Maples (3.11036)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1992Creator: Winter, Kendall, Crowley Jr., Webster R., Hess, William J.
Type: Article
Red-Leaf Rose (Rosa glauca): An Attractive But Uncommon Species Rose (3.11037)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1992Creator: Kalata, Lynne
Type: Article
A Rose By Any Other Name… (3.11038)
Date: June 21 – September 20 1992Creator: van der Linden, Peter J.
Type: Article
Looking Through a Portal in Time (3.11040)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1992Creator: Simpson, Thomas
Type: Article
Sweet-Fern (Comptonia peregrina) (3.11041)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1992Creator: Swink, Floyd, Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Woody Plants and Roadway Salt: An Urban Dilemma (3.11042)
Date: September 21 – December 20 1992Creator: Hootman, Rick, Kelsey, Pat
Type: Article
Some Broad-Leaved Evergreens for the Chicago Region (3.11044)
Date: December 21 1992 – March 20 1993Creator: Crowley Jr., Webster R.
Type: Article
Repanda Juniper (Juniperus communis ‘Repanda’) (3.11045)
Date: December 21 1992 – March 20 1993Creator: Bachtell, Kris
Type: Article
Seed Exchange: A Cooperative International Program (3.11046)
Date: December 21 1992 – March 20 1993Type: Article
Aquilegia sibirica (Siberian columbine), flowers (3.110953)
Date: May 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Aquilegia sibirica (Siberian columbine), flowers; nodding blue flowers and stems; other columbines and leaves in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott (Jack-in-the-pulpit), flower (3.110973)
Date: April 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arisaema triphyllum (L.) Schott (Jack-in-the-pulpit), flower; green and white spathe with purple interior; purple stems with two compound green leaves each divided into three leaflets; other plants and mulch in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Arum italicum 'Pictum' (Pictum Italian arum), leaves (3.111020)
Date: January 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arum italicum 'Pictum' (Pictum Italian arum), leaves; arrow-shaped dark green leaves with silver-gray veining; mulch in background.
Extent: 1 slide
Arum italicum (Italian arum), fruit (3.111021)
Date: June 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Arum italicum (Italian arum), fruit; brown stem with a cluster of green berries at the top; withering variegated leaves.
Extent: 1 slide
Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' (3.111535)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' (White Swan purple coneflower) has large daisy-like flowers with white petals that slightly droop and a large coppery-orange cone. The large leaves are lanceolate (lance-shaped) and coarsely toothed.
Echinops, flowers (3.111562)
Date: July 1992Creator: Yiesla, Sharon
Type: Photographic image
Description:Echinops (globe thistles) have blue or white spherical flower heads.