Morton Arboretum : Search Objects :

Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit (3.24626)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustrations of variety of leaves, buds, plant habits and bark, created to accompany " Fragrance and Flavor in Leaf, Bark, Twig, and Fruit" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Includes identifying illustrations of source trees and identifying text in pen and ink.

Divided into five sections, from top to bottom, left to right:

1) FRAGRANCE IN BRUISED LEAVES

Sweetbriar - fragrance of green apple sauce
Sweet shrub - scent of strawberries
Fragrant sumac - aromatic with a trace of lemon
Bayberry - aromatic with a hint of balsam
Mother-of-thyme - fragrant, with a suggestion of new lumber
Jeffrey pine - a sharp tang of orange peel
Arbor vitae - in hot sun a smell of "wild strawberries with a hint of resin" - Wilder
Balsam fir - aromatic and spicy
Sweet cicely - odor of anise, or licorice
Sassafras - "fragrance of lemon and a thousand spices" - Thoreau
Sweet bay - a culinary fragrance reminiscent of soups and stews
Spice-bush - smooth aroma of mingled spices
Hay-scented fern - fragrance of new-mown hay
Sweet fern - resinous and spicy
Southernwood - smooth sweet fragrance
Chaste tree - mint with a hint of spice

2) FLAVOR IN TWIGS AND BARK

Cherry birch - cool, smooth flavor of wintergreen
Yellow birch - mild taste of wintergreen
Black cherry - taste of bitter almond
Slippery elm - inner bark pleasantly mucilaginous

3) FLAVOR IN FRUIT

Juniper - a pleasant aromatic taste
Sumac - a berry on the tongue gives a taste of "Indian lemonade"

4) A FRAGRANT BUD

Balm of gilead - resinous and strongly aromatic

5) A FRAGRANT FRUIT

Flowering quince - good to put in a pocket, or with hankerchiefs

Extent: 1 sheet

Spruce Cones (3.24628)

Date: 1943
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of 3 spruce cones, 2 false cypress cones, 3 fir cones, and 4 larch cones, created to accompany "The Cones of The Arboretum" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Identifying text originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.

Pine cones depicted, from left to right, top to bottom:

[Original header (not included with art): SPRUCE CONES are pendent, thin scaled]

Norway spruce -- Picea abies
Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
White spruce -- Picea glauca
White cedar false cypress -- Chamaecyparis thyoides
Sawara false cypress -- Chamaecyparis pisifera

[Original subhead (not included with art): FIR CONES are upright, with thin scales that fall off]

Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia
Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
White fir -- Abies concolor

[Original subhead (not included with art): LARCH CONES are stalked, thin-scaled]

European larch -- Larix decidua
Tamarack -- Larix laricina
Arbor vitae -- Thuja occidentalis
Canada hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis

Extent: 1 sheet

The Christmas Trees (3.24630)

Date: 1945
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Illustration of seven evergreen trees, created to accompany "The Evergreen Trees" article featured in Morton Arboretum Bulletin of Popular Information. Illustrations include full trees with needle illustrations below divided into sections according to needles, twigs, and branches. The identifying text originally adhered to the board has detached and is no longer present.

[Original header (not included with art): THE "CHRISTMAS TREES"]

Trees depicted, from left to right:

Norway spruce -- Picea abies
Colorado spruce -- Picea pungens
White spruce -- Picea glauca
Hemlock -- Tsuga canadensis
White fir -- Abies concolor
Balsam fir -- Abies balsamea
Douglas fir -- Pseudotsuga taxifolia

Extent: 1 sheet

Evergreen Nature Trail Guide, page 15 illustrations and layout with preliminary sketches (3.24689)

Date: 1940s
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:Sheet One: Original illustrations and layout for page 15, excluding text, for The Morton Arboretum Evergreen Nature Trail Guide booklet. Key lines included.
Illustrated stumps with numbers indicate points of interest along trail as seen on trail map.

Tree stump #36: Balsam Fir
Illustration of cone cutout detached - see note below

Tree stump #37: We All Depend on Evergreens
Includes generalized illustrated identifying characteristics of various trees below, labeled as follows: Oak, Gum, Maple, Other hardwoods, Yellow Pines, Douglas Fir, Ponderosa pine, White pine, Hemlock, Redwood, Spruce, Cypress, Other softwoods.

Single cutout illustration depicting cone characteristics originally adhered to board has detached and is no longer present.

Sheet Two: Preliminary sketch of green-colored illustrations.
Extent: 2 sheets, 1 cutout

American silver fir, or, Balm of Gilead fir [graphic] = Abies balsamifera / Bessa delt. Bessin sculp. (3.25048)

Date: 1810
Creator: Bessa, Pancrace, 1772-approximately 1835.
Type: Print
Extent: 1 print : engraving, hand-colored plate mark 23 x 15 cm., on sheet 28 x 19 cm.

Leaf Prints: Balsam Fir (3.27691)

Date: circa 1950
Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Print
Description:A white negative nature print of balsam fir needle-like leaves and stems on a dark background with identifying text at bottom right handwritten by May T. Watts.

Identifying text:

Fir balsam
Abies balsamea

Extent: 1 sheet

Trees Native To North America But Not To This Region That Can Be Grown Here (3.33821)

Creator: Watts, May Theilgaard
Type: Drawing
Description:A large illustration depicting a bird's-eye view of three sets of houses and yards with different types of trees growing in each. The trees are drawn in silhouette.

Header:

TREES NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICAN BUT NOT TO THIS REGION / THAT CAN BE GROWN HERE

Types of trees depicted:

arborvitae -- Osage-orange -- black locust -- hemlock -- gray birch -- Jeffrey pine -- flowering dogwood -- redbud -- tulip-tree -- pitch pine -- mountain-ash -- persimmon -- pawpaw -- red mulberry -- douglas-fir -- white spruce -- red-cedar -- [concolor] white fir -- balsam fir -- [Colorado] blue spruce -- jack pine -- paper birch -- magnolia -- white pine -- red pine -- beech -- limber pine -- ponderosa pine -- sycamore -- catalpa -- Ohio buckeye -- Pin oak
Extent: 1 sheet

Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature (3.57916)

Date: August 13 2015
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature

Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature (3.57917)

Date: August 13 2015
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, mature

Abies balsamea (balsam fir), cone, pollen (3.57918)

Date: April 17 2015
Creator: Lobdell, Matt
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), cone, pollen

Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), habit, summer (3.57919)

Date: July 11 2002
Creator: Hedborn Jr., Edward A.
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (Balsam Fir), habit, summer

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir) [left] and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas fir) [right], branch tips, buds, and needles (3.81509)

Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir) [left] and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco (Douglas fir) [right], branch tips, needles, and buds.
Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81523)

Date: November 1998
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, spire like crown, other trees, and sky in view.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), branch with seed cones (3.81524)

Date: May 1966
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), branch with seed cones and needles visible
Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81525)

Date: August 1969
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, roadside, road, power lines and sky in background.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81526)

Date: January 1975
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, sky in background.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81527)

Date: October 1973
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, seedling, fallen leaves in background.
Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81528)

Date: June 1981
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, other trees, sky and clouds in background.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81529)

Date: May 1981
Creator: Kohout, John
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, groundcover and rock in foreground, other trees in background.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), scales and seeds (3.81530)

Date: October 1974
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), scales and seeds, mossy groundcover.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cones (3.81531)

Date: June 1962
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cones, branch, needles.

Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cone (3.81532)

Date: June 1962
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), young cone, branch with needles.

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), crown habit (3.81533)

Date: June 1962
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), crown habit, sky and clouds in background.

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cones (3.81534)

Date: June 1962
Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), male cones and needle undersides.

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), bark, scales, seeds (3.81535)

Date: April 1978
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (balsam fir), bark, scales, seeds, and dirt in background.
Extent: 1 slide

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), cone (3.81536)

Type: Photographic image
Description:

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), female cone and needles

Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit (3.81537)

Date: July 1981
Creator: Kohout, Kitty
Type: Photographic image
Description:Abies balsamea (L.) Mill. (balsam fir), habit, forest and person in background.
Extent: 1 slide