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Branches: A Newsletter for the Volunteers of The Morton Arboretum, Summer/Fall 1999 (3.105983)
Date: 1999Creator: Mauter, Pamela
Type: Serial
Description:A digitized issue of the Summer/Fall 1999 Branches Newsletter. This issue features Bob and Ruth Job as featured volunteers, contains information on the 1999 Volunteer and Guide Giving Program, an article on Birds by Pamela Mauter, and highlights special activities, new volunteers, and volunteer opportunities.
Extent: 4 pages
Proposed research building, Morton Arboretum (3.104937)
Date: 1979Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:West elevation; view from the southwest (2 sheets)
Extent: 3 sheets
[New Research Building, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois] (3.104932)
Date: January 17 1980Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheets A2-1, A3-1, A3-2, A6-1, A6-2.
Includes revisions made in red pen.
Extent: 5 sheets stapled
Morton Arboretum Research Building - Site Plan (3.104931)
Date: January 14 1980Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A2-1
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Research Building - Site Plan - Proposed Well-Pump Location (3.104930)
Date: January 8 1980Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A2-1 with drawings in red pen with the proposed location for the well pump and new lath house.
Extent: 1 sheet
Morton Arboretum Research Building First Floor Plan (3.104929)
Date: December 21 1979Creator: Keiser Associates
Type: Plan
Description:Sheet A3-2
Extent: 1 sheet
A Checklist of Plants in the Living Collections of Rhe Morton Arboretum (3.104912)
Date: October 23 1995Type: Document
Description:A list of plants by scientific name.
Extent: 123 sheets, double-sided
Map of Morton Arboretum Hedge Garden (3.104911)
Date: August 11 1994Type: Document
Description:A map of The Morton Arboretum Hedge Garden with a key showing the scientific name, common name, and characteristics of the plant. The garden was divided into sheared hedges and unsheared hedges.
Extent: 1 shwwt, double sided
APGA/USFS Tree Gene Conservation Partnership: Report on 2019 Scouting and Collection Efforts targeting Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidata (3.104906)
Date: November 14 2019Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Document
Description:A report prepared by Matt Lobdell, head of collections and curator, for the American Public Gardens Association (APGA)/ United States Forest Service (USFS) Tree Gene Conservation Partnership. The report provides details on two trips in 2019 to scout and collect material for Magnolia pyramidata (pyramidal magnolia).
Planting List Ulmus laevis (3.104905)
Date: March 31 1998Type: Document
Description:Planting list for 3 Ulmus laevis trees.
Extent: 1 sheet
Inventory List of Plants with Ascension Numbers from the 1920's (3.104904)
Type: Document
Description:A plant inventory list in alphabetical order by scientific name. Ascension numbers are all from the 1920's. It indicates source of the plant and natural range and location in the arboretum.
Extent: 69 sheets
Plant Inventory dated January 14, 1997 (3.104903)
Date: January 14 1997Type: Document
Description:A computer printout of a plant inventory list dated January 14, 1997. The list includes the plant name, accession number and location. The accession numbers are from years 1922 to 1929.
Extent: 22 sheets
Morton Arboretum History (3.104851)
Date: January 8 1973Type: Audio
Description:Recording of a lecture given by Ray Schulenberg on the history of The Morton Arboretum beginning around 1832. Topics covered include early Lisle settlement, J. Sterling Morton, Joy Morton's salt business, the establishment of the Arboretum, the hiring of early Arboretum staff (Clarence Godshalk, Henry Teuscher, John van Gemert), farming operations at the Arboretum, the passing of Joy Morton, Jean Morton Cudahy and Sterling Morton as chairman of the trustees, the woody plant collections, and the education program.
Reading the Landscape of America (3.104846)
Date: 1975Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Book
Description:Originally published as Reading the Landscape.
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 1 of 7 (3.104822)
Date: March 16 1982Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of elms; group 1 of 7 groupings of inventory lists in the file.
Extent: 12 sheets
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 6 of 7 (3.104821)
Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of elms; group 6 of 7 groupings of inventory lists in the file.
Extent: 4 sheets
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 5 of 7 (3.104820)
Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of elms; group 5 of 7 groupings of inventory lists in the file.
Extent: 42 sheets
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 4 of 7 (3.104819)
Date: February 19 1997Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of elms; group 4 of 7 groupings of inventory lists in the file.
Extent: 33 sheets
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 2 of 7 (3.104818)
Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of elms; group 2 of 7 groupings of inventory lists in the file.
Elm Inventory 1997-1982, Group 7 of 7 (3.104817)
Type: Document
Description:An inventory list of plants, mostly Elms, but also includes populus and morus. Pages in this list are headed by bed designation: H, I, J, A, B, C, D,E, F, G and Ulmus parvifolia
Extent: 20 sheets
Stone Container's Plantation Forestry in Costa Rica using Gmelina Arborea Gmelina Arborea in Costa Rica (3.104816)
Date: 1996Type: Document
Description:Information about Stone Container's investment in Ston Forestal, which grows Gmelina Arborea in Costa Rica on a plantation.
Extent: 12 sheets
1996 Closed Real Estate Listings in Winfield, IL (3.104815)
Date: 1996Type: Document
Description:Three closed single family real estate listings from Winfield, IL in 1996.
Extent: 3 sheets
Edgewood Callery Pear Pyrus Calleryana x betulaefolia Information Sheet (3.104814)
Type: Document
Description:An information sheet produced by Discov-Tree Research and Development in Oquawka, IL, on the Edgewood Callery Pear Pyrus calleryana x betulaefolia.
Extent: 1 sheet
Jubilee Sweet Gum Liquidambar stytaciflua Jubdell Information Sheet (3.104813)
Type: Document
Description:An information sheet produced by Discov-Tree Research and Development in Oquawka, IL, on the Jubillee Sweet Gum Liquidambar stytaciflua.
Extent: 1 sheet, double-sided
1996/03/06: Willet N. Wandell to George Ware (3.104812)
Date: March 6 1996Creator: Willet N. Wandell
Type: Document
Description:A list of trees offered for Spring, 1996 planting and observation to the Morton Arboretum by Discov-Tree Research and Development. Includes Kohler White Ash; Arborite Red Ash; Skyward Red Ash; Attention Robur Oak; Edgewood Pear; Urbanite Red Ash; Sterling Silver Linden.
Extent: 1 sheet
Summer Splendor Tartarian Maple (3.104811)
Type: Document
Description:A document describing the characteristics of the Acer tartarium, or Summer Splendor Tartarian Maple, as described by Discov-Tree Research & Development in Oquawka, IL.
Extent: 1 sheet
List of People Matched with Prairie Plant Names (3.104810)
Type: Document
Description:A list of 14 people matched with prairie plant names.
Extent: 1 sheet
Information and Prairie Seed Sources (3.104808)
Type: Document
Description:A list of source material for a prairie garden including reference books, periodicals, newsletters and plant sources.
Extent: 2 sheets, double-sided
Root Damage Research: Construction and Tree Survival Fact Sheet (DRAFT) (3.104807)
Date: March 31 1993Type: Document
Description:Notes on research conducted at The Morton Arboretum on trees impacted by construction site excavation.
Extent: 1 sheet
Illinois Arborist Association 1994 Summer Field Day and Jamboree (3.104806)
Date: 1994Type: Document
Description:A brochure announcing the Illinois Arborist Association's 1994 Summer Field Day & Jamboree held at The Morton Arboretum on June 17 & 18, 1994. The feature activity was a tree appraisal workshop.
Extent: 5 sheets
Resource Hotline: Senate Looks at Ecosystem Management (3.104805)
Date: May 16 1994Type: Document
Description:A biweekly newsletter of American Forests with headline topic on hearings of the U. S. Senate concerning ecosystem management on government and private lands.
Extent: 4 sheets
Research Test Plot Map (3.104804)
Type: Document
Description:A hand-drawn map of a research test plot at The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
1994/07/13: Rick Hootman to Research and Administration Building Occupants (3.104803)
Date: July 19 1994Type: Document
Description:A notice of washrooms closing in the 1956 Administration Building basement.
Extent: 1 sheet
1993/09/18: P. J. Simmons to L. Chan re: Viskase Casings Used in Horticulture (3.104802)
Date: September 18 1993Type: Document
Description:Comments on the use of cellulose casings for tree planting.
Extent: 1 sheet
"Fungus may be at the root of wilting, dying trees" [news clipping] (3.104801)
Date: June 8 1993Type: Document
Description:An article from the Chicago Tribune dated Tuesday, June 8, 1993, quoting Gary Watson and Tom Green of The Morton Arboretum who suggest verticillium wilt as the cause of recent tree stress in the DuPage County, IL area.
Extent: 2 sheets
Research Plot Assignments, 1992 (3.104800)
Date: June 29 1992Type: Document
Description:The Morton Arboretum research plot assignment list from 1992.
Extent: 1 sheet
