Tree Book (3.34244)
Type: Photographic image
Description:The cover of a booklet created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum titled "Tree Book," depicting simple outlines of three trees as well as a detailed leaf from each hand-drawn in crayon or colored pencil.
Title: TREE BOOK
Tree and leaf labels and images, left to right:
- Elm
- Red Oak
- Catalpa
Extent: 1 slide
Undated: Karel [Jacobs] to George Ware (3.44621)
Creator: Jacobs, Karel
Type: Document
Description:Note from Karel [Jacobs] to George Ware asking for information about resistant elm availability so that she is better informed at the Plant Clinic.
Extent: 1 sheet
The Elm Breeding Program At The Morton Arboretum (3.59564)
Type: Document
Description:History of the elm breeding program at The Morton Arboretum as well as information regarding physical features, attributes, and challenges in growing a variety of elms.
Two earlier drafts available with final draft.
Extent: 7 sheets
Elms and Hawthorns (3.36825)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm and hawthorn trees near what appears to be a log cabin.
This image is part of a group of slides that belonged to May T. Watts, related to her book Reading the Landscape.
Extent: 1 slide
Vegetable dyes: table runner (3.34410)
Type: Photographic image
Description:A table runner made with thread dyed from elm, walnut, and birch.
Extent: 1 slide
Morton Arboretum Elm List (3.60086)
Type: Document
Description:A list of 39 elm trees that presumably are in The Morton Arboretum.
Extent: 1 sheet
Undated: Peter [Wang] to George Ware (3.44614)
Creator: Wang, Peter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Peter [Wang] to George Ware discussing possible Chinese names for a new variety of Elm.
Extent: 1 sheet
Elm propagation, bags on tree (3.37443)
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm propagation, bags on tree done by George Ware
Extent: 1 photograph
Education charts: Developed Area Food Web (3.34240)
Type: Photographic image
Description:An educational chart created by May T. Watts for The Morton Arboretum, depicting various plants, insects, and animals that are part of a development area food web. The images in the chart are connected with arrows indicating the relationships between them in the web, labeled as follows:
Header: DEVELOPED AREA
- TREE SWALLOW
- ROBIN
- EARTHWORM
- HOUSE MOSQUITO
- CHIPPING SPARROW
- CATERPILLAR
- RABBIT
- SCREECH OWL
- ORGANIC DEBRIS
- ELM
- GARDEN PLANT
- HOUSE MOUSE
Note: Three of the organisms depicted at the top edge of the chart are slightly cut off, although the labels are still visible.
Extent: 1 slide
Undated: Peter [Wang] to George Ware (3.44616)
Creator: Wang, Peter
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Peter [Wang] to George Ware discussing new Chinese names for elms and pines.
Extent: 1 sheet
Bewicks wren = [graphic] Troglodytes bewickii, Aud House wren = Troglodytes aedon, Viell. / drawn from nature by J.J. Audubon chromolithy. by J. Bien. (3.24932)
Date: 1860Creator: Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : chromolithograph 68 x 100 cm.
[Planting Map for Elm, Tilia, Rubia, Celtis, Deutzia, and other shrubs on Valley Road] (3.5659)
Date: circa 1926Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:The plan shows planting for a shoreline area between the DuPage River and the future Meadow Lake. The plan is signed by the landscaper, but it is untitled and not dated.
Extent: 1 sheet
[ Planting map for Elm, Tilia, Rubia, Celtis, Deutzia, and other shrubs on Valley Road ], signed by Joy Morton (3.5660)
Date: circa 1926Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:The plan shows planting for a shoreline area between the DuPage River and the future Meadow Lake. The plan is signed by the landscaper and by Joy Morton, but it is untitled and not dated.
Extent: 1 sheet
Planting map for the Elm Collection on Valley Road (3.5663)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1926Creator: Teuscher, Henry
Type: Plan
Description:This plan appears to be a preliminary version of [Planting Map for Elm, Tilia, Rubia, Celtis, Deutzia, and other shrubs on Valley Road] , and shows elm plantings only.
Extent: 1 sheet
Tall elm on right bank of Lake Marmo (3.36889)
Date: 1930 – 1949Type: Photographic image
Description:Tall elm on right bank of Lake Marmo
Extent: 1 negative
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2954)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Elms being moved to Hedge Garden in winter (3.2955)
Date: 1935 – 1936Type: Photographic image
Description:Several elm trees with balled roots next to Administration Building being moved to Hedge Garden in winter during tree transplanting
Extent: 1 negative
Forest Nature Trail Guide, page 9 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24659)
Date: 1946Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 9, for The Morton Arboretum Forest Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.
Tree stump #18: Garter snake
Includes an illustration of a coiled garter snake to the right.
Tree stump #19: Bracken fern
Identifying characteristics for leaves illustrated to the right.
Tree stump #20: Gravel pit
Three illustrations of a gravel pit labeled "1," "2," and "3" showing stages of vegetation regrowth over time.
Tree stump #21: Slime flux
Name of chronic bleeding from the side of an Elm tree. Identifying characteristics for Elm leaf illustrated to the right.
Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets
Emergent Plant Series: #5, Lowland Forest Stage (3.19489)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes an aerial view of a pond showing trees and plants at its edges and bays with additional forest trees and hills in the background, and illustrations of trees and a cross-section view of aquatic plants attached to pond bottom.
Header: LOWLAND FOREST STAGE / TREES THAT TOLERATE WET FEET
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 9 sections]:
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- SUBMERGED PLANT ZONE
- FLOATING-LEAF ZONE
- EMERGENT-PLANT ZONE
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
Extent: 1 sheet
Emergent Plant Series: #6, Climax Forest Stage (3.19490)
Date: 1950sCreator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Part of a series of numbered illustrations about the stages of pond growth. This material includes a view of a pond in the center with forest trees and hills in the background, and a cross-section of illustrations of forest trees, and trees and emergent plants of the water's edge.
Header: CLIMAX FOREST STAGE / THE PERMAMENT FOREST of the REGION
Drawings and text from top to bottom, left to right:
- pond and surrounding landscape
- cross-section [divided into 7 sections]:
- CLIMAX FOREST
- red oak
- white oak
- hickory
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- elm
- ash
- hackberry
- linden
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- willow
- silver maple
- EMERGENT ZONE
- cat-tails
- arrowhead
- bur reed
- pickerel weed
- bull-rush
- PIONEER TREE ZONE
- LOWLAND FOREST ZONE
- CLIMAX FOREST
- CLIMAX FOREST
Extent: 1 sheet
The Morton Arboretum Quarterly V. 02 No. 01 (3.34508)
Date: March 21 – June 20 1966Type: Serial
Description:
- After Elms - What? (1-7)
- European Alder, Black Alder. Alnus glutinosa: Birch Family (Betulaceae) (8-9)
- An Imported Problem: Dutch Elm Disease, 1918 to 1966 (10-12)
- Christmas Bird Census, 1965 (13-15)
- Climatological Summary (14)
- Arboretum News and Notes (16)
Extent: 16 pages
Ulmus parvifolia [graphic] / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24305)
Date: 1978Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 50 x 69 cm.
Ulmus japonica [graphic] Ulmus japonica x Ulmus wilsoniana Ulmus wilsoniana / Nancy S. Hart. (3.24306)
Date: 1982Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w image 29 x 45 cm., on board 48 x 59 cm.
Ulmus japonica fruit [graphic] / N.S. Hart. (3.24359)
Date: 1982Creator: Hart, Nancy
Type: Drawing
Extent: 1 drawing : pen and ink, b&w 33 x 28 cm.
1985/06/12: Randall J. Fox to George Ware (3.38477)
Date: June 12 1985Creator: Fox, Randall J.
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Randall J. Fox of Arbor Lodge State Historical Park to George Ware asking for his assistance in planting newly developed hybrid elm trees in their park, Arbor Lodge State Historical Park in Nebraska, the home of J. Sterling Morton.
Extent: 1 sheet
1985/07/23: George Ware to Randall J. Fox (3.56104)
Date: July 23 1985Creator: Ware, George, Mintern, Gloria
Type: Document
Description:A set of two letters. The first from George Ware to Randall J. Fox of the Arbor Lodge State Historical Park stating that he will send some small hybrid elm trees for planting. The second (dated August 15, 1988) from Gloria Smith Mintern to George Ware informing him that the tree he sent is doing well.
Extent: 2 sheets
1986/05/27: Jeffry Morris to George Ware (3.38474)
Date: May 27 1986Creator: Morris, Jeffry
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Jeffry Morris of Highclere, Inc. to George Ware thanking him for his help with elm trees in northern Fayette County.
Extent: 1 sheet
1988/05/25: Zhang Qiwen to Dr. George H. Ware (3.62963)
Date: May 25 1988Creator: Qiwen, Zhang
Type: Document
Description:Letter from Zhang Qiwen to Dr. George H. Ware discussing her wishes to work at The Morton Arboretum starting in April, 1989.
Extent: 2 sheets
1989/04/18: George H. Ware to Dr. Chao Tiensi (3.63690)
Date: April 18 1989Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware to Dr. Chao Tiensi of the Chinese Academy of Forestry discussing the availability of seeds and success propagating seeds sent by Dr. Chao.
Extent: 1 sheet
Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project (3.4503)
Date: 1990sCreator: Nachel, Jim
Type: Photographic image
Description:Elm hybridization, bags on trees, George Ware research project
Extent: 1 photograph
1990/12/10: George Ware to Dr. Gerard Donnelly (3.66980)
Date: December 10 1990Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:A set of two documents. The first is a memo from George Ware to Dr. Gerard Donnelly regarding the possibility of hosting Dr. Zhao Qing-ru [Qingru] as a visiting scholar. The second document is a list of the twelve possible benefits for the exchange visits with Chinese botanists.
Extent: 2 sheets
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
1992/06/10: George H. Ware to Dr. Qingru Zhao (3.66634)
Date: June 10 1992Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Letter from George H. Ware of the Morton Arboretum to Qingru Zhao thanking him for Ulmus seeds and enclosing a check for 4,000.
Extent: 1 sheet
1992/06/20: Ruth Luthringer to Dilip Das (3.57374)
Date: June 20 1992Creator: Luthringer, Ruth
Type: Document
Description:A set of two letters and a monologue. The letters are from Ruth Luthringer to Dilip Das and George Ware and seek feedback in regards to a short monologue titled Thornhill Elm which interprets the life-cycle of the Accolade Elm.
Extent: 4 sheets
1993/07/12: George [Ware] to Gene [Eugene Smalley] (3.62127)
Date: July 12 1993Creator: Ware, George
Type: Document
Description:Photocopy of a letter from George Ware to Eugene Smalley about providing various types of lesser-known elms grown from seed.
Extent: 1 sheet
1994/03/11: T. Davis Sydnor to George Ware (3.38204)
Date: March 11 1994Creator: Sydnor, T. Davis
Type: Document
Description:Letter from T. Davis Sydnor of Ohio State University concerning the identification of Celtis reticulata. Mr. Sydnor also asked for Mr. Ware's assistance in collecting seeds of Ulmus japonica and Ulmus wilsoniana which he would like to cultivate on campus.
Extent: 1 sheet