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Collection Contents The Morton Arboretum Quarterly Articles (487 records) Planning the Arboretum Looking Back Trilliums for Midwestern Wild Gardens Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary Shadbush, Allegheny Shadblow, Serviceberry, Juneberry, Amelanchier laevis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) Cobblestones and Concrete: the Nob Hill Flora after Seventy Years The Lookout Hackberry, Celtis occidentalis: Elm Family (Ulmaceae) Weeds and Man An Essay on Illinois Oaks Ohio Buckeye, Aesculus glabra: Buckeye Family (Hippocastanaceae) A Time To Transplant Arboretum News and Notes The Arboretum Landscape – A Sesquicentennial Perspective Blue Beech, Carpinus caroliniana: Birch Family (Betulaceae) The Lookout/ Climatological Summary Saucer Magnolia, Magnolia soulangiana: Magnolia Family (Magnoliaceae) European Larch, Larix decidua: Pine Family (Pinaceae) Flower Baskets Found in Books Kentucky Coffee-tree, Gymnocladus dioicus: Pea Family (Leguminosae) Arboretum News and Notes River Birch, Betula nigra: Birch Family (Betulaceae) The River and the Watershed A sketch of the Sweetgums Photographs by E.H. Wilson Tulip Tree, Liriodendron tulipifera: Magnolia Family (Magnoliaceae) Arboretum News and Notes Rain Tree Fountain Prairie Crab Apple, Malus Ioensis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) The Destructible Oak Arboretum News and Notes Chinese Chestnut, Castanea mollissima: Beech Family (Fagaceae) About The Masque Arboretum News and Notes The Secret World of May Watts The Man Who Started Arbor Day Planting a Tree: From a Letter by Loren Eiseley A New Arbor Day “Our Grandest Arbor Day” In Memoriam: Mary K. Moulton 1913-1972 Sugar Maple, Acer saccharum: Maple Family (Aceraceae) Viburnum Portraits by Margaret Stones American Linden, Tilia Americana: Linden Family (Tiliaceae) Arboretum News and Notes The Lookout Notes from the Sterling Morton Library Arboretum News and Notes Charles C. Deam (1865-1953): An Uncommon Common Man Excerpts from Letters written by Charles Clemon Deam to Floyd Swink between 1947 and 1951 with comments by Floyd Swink Floyd Swink: Typist Turned Taxonomist Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana: Ebony Family (Ebenaceae)
Page 1 Arboretum News and Notes “Fantasy in a Wood-Block” Getting to the Roots of Woody Plant Problems From the Archives: Discovering Thornhill American Hazelnut: An Overlooked Native Shrub in Northeastern Illinois Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Remarkable Deciduous Trees of The Morton Arboretum: West Side of the Arboretum Calendar of Spring Flora Interest Crataegus crus-galli L. Cockspur Thorn: (Rosaceae) Rose Family Thornhill Arboretum News and Notes From the Sterling Morton Library Spring Events Meeting the Shade Problem: Selective Plant Material Suitable for Growing in Shade The Art of Jens Jensen, Landscape Architect Ostrya virginiana (Mill.) K. Koch. Ironwood, American Hornbeam: (Betulaceae) Birch Family The Control of Some Summer Insect Pests The May T. Watts Reading Garden Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary Outstanding Plants in Review Planting a Small Tree (Up to one inch in diameter) Rhus typhina L. dissecta Rehd. Cutleaf Staghorn Sumac: (Anacardiaceae) Cashew Family Talking Turkey Arboretum News and Notes Remarkable Deciduous Trees of The Morton Arboretum: East Side of the Arboretum Goose Pye for Dinner: Christmas with Some Great Naturalists Arboretum News and Notes Pinus parviflora Siebold and Zuccarini, Japanese White Pine: (Pinaceae) Pine Family A Greeting to Chicago's New Botanic Garden Index Volume One After Elms - What? European Alder, Black Alder. Alnus glutinosa: Birch Family (Betulaceae) An Imported Problem: Dutch Elm Disease, 1918 to 1966 Christmas Bird Census, 1965 Arboretum News and Notes Flowering Crabapples You Should Know Tyrannopolis vs. A Place to Live: The First Oikos Conference As Nature Shows Them Pagoda Dogwood, Alternate-leaved Dogwood. Cornus alternifolia: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary On Clarence Godshalk’s Retirement A Colleague’s Appreciation A New Director for the Arboretum In Memoriam: E. Lowell Kammerer 1906-1966 Sour Gum, Black Gum, Tupelo, Papperidge. Nyssa sylvatica: Sour Gum Family (Nyssaceae) Seed Exchange As the Twig Is Bent, So Grows the Juniper All Elysium in a Plot of Ground: Garden Literature for Winter Reading Eastern Hemlock, Tsuga canadensis: Pine Family (Pinaceae) Arboretum News and Notes I Visit Dead Plants The Lookout Mrs. Watts Yellow-wood, Cladrastis lutea: Pea Family (Leguminosae) Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary Prairie in a Post-Prairie Era The Lookout Notes on Prairie Plant Cultivation Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary Confusing Viburnums A Remarkable Plant Ten Windows
Page 2 Amur Maple, Acer ginnal: Maple Family (Aceraceae) Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary The Arboretum as a Cultural Institution Winter Injury The Lookout Sycamore, Buttonwood, Platanus occidentalis: Sycamore Family (Platanaceae) Arboretum News and Notes Three Year Index: 1965-1967 A Garden of Printers’ Flowers Gardening with Ground Cover Plants Ground Covers for Northern Illinois Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary The Country in the City Arboretum News and Notes/ Climatological Summary Introduced Woody Plants in the Flora of the Chicago Region More is Less: the Riddle of Progress The Morton Arboretum: planning for its Second Half-Century An Earth Day Talk Firethorn (Pyracantha) in Northeast Illinois: A Second Look Red Maple, Acer rubrum: Maple Family (Aceraceae) Wild Flower Protection in Illinois Arboretum News and Notes Can Man Learn from Nature? Mathematics, Ecology & A Piece Of Land: The Illusion Of Predictability The Smoggy Crystal Ball Climatological Summary Development – A Human Failing Noise—The Ultimate Insult Amur Cork-tree, Phellodendron amurense: Rue Family (Rutaceae) What Became of Arbor Day? Hemlock—Graceful Conifer Man and Nature All the Things Trees Are Trees, Arbor Day, and a New Ethic Arbor Day Arbor Day Centennial Ropes on the Fox Hortus Botanicus: the Botanic Garden & the Book Adventures Afield: A Brief History Field Course in the Rocky Mountains Openings in the Woods The Preservation of Delight A Taste of Wilderness: Arboretum Teens Explore the Manistee Shall we Have an Out-of-Doors or an Indoor Civilization? : Shall we Plant Trees or Build Buildings? Trees Are Forever—We Hope Planting the Centennial Grove At the Feeder Notes on the Morton Arboretum Herbarium The Lookout Silver Bell, Halesia carolina: Storax Family (Styracaceae) At the Feeder (second in a series) Arboretum News and Notes Arthur Rackham’s Trees At the Feeder (third in a series) Arboretum Visitor Center White Oak, Quercus alba: Beech Family (Fagaceae) Out of a Chrysalis, a Wardian Case Notes on the Morton Arboretum Library Arboretum Volunteers, 1973 Three year Index: 1971-1973: Volumes 7-9 Argument for an Old Bog Arbor Day Thoughts Maidenhair Tree, Ginkgo biloba: Ginkgo Family (Ginkgoaceae) News & c: Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary
Page 3 The Lookout Living Footnotes in a Garden Research Notes/ Climatological Summary Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa: Beech Family (Fagaceae) The Unexpected Drop-In Immigrant Plants Norway Maple, Acer platanoides: Maple Family (Aceraceae) Impressions of Wolf Road Prairie Research Notes/ People & Projects/ Climatological Summary Acorns Large & Small Site Changes and Root Damage: Some Problems with Oaks Diagnosing and Preventing Diebacks and Declines of Urban Trees: Lessons From Some Forest Counterparts Redbud, Cercis canadensis: Pea Family (Leguminosae) People & Projects/ Climatological Summary Of the Infirmities of Trees, & c. Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About Focus: The Nature Study & Camera Club after ten Years A Tree by Any Other Name…(Or: What is Behind Name Changes?) Cornelian Cherry Dogwood, Cornus mas: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) “Nature City”: Translating the Natural Environment into Urban Language American Plants in Porcelain Sculpture I Loved a Frog Pond Exploring a Pond in summer… Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida: Dogwood Family (Cornaceae) People and Projects/ Climatological Summary The Rose: Plant and Symbol Reading May Watts Wild Plum, Prunus Americana: Rose Family (Rosaceae) The Origin of Halloween People & Projects/ Climatological Summary Autumn I Envy the Goose How to Learn from Nature Downy Hawthorn, Crataegus mollis: Rose Family (Rosaceae) Research Notes/ Climatological Summary Ladies First On the Nature & Pedigree of Garden Seeds Humphry Marshall (1722-1801): Author of the First American Book on Trees Washington Hawthorn, Cretaegus phaenopyrum: Rose Family (Rosaceae) Q Readers Respond People & Projects/ Climatological Summary A Day with Aldo Leopold Honey Locust, Gleditsia triacanthos: Legume Family (Leguminosae) Early America in Plant Names (Part I) People & Projects/ Climatological Summary The Lookout Rhododendron Culture at the Morton Arboretum Early America in Plant Names (Part II) Wild Turkey-watching The Aeronauts Black Walnut, Juglans nigra: Walnut Family (Juglandaceae) The Graduate Birder People & Projects Three-Year Index 1974-1976, Volumes 10-12/ The Plant Information Bulletin Three-Year Index, Numbers 1-11 Some Ecological Considerations for Urban Tree Selection People & Projects Marsh in the Making: Photographs by Bill Stickney The Meaning of the Grebe People & Projects Dotted Hawthorn, Crataegus punctata: Rose Family (Roseacae) The Lookout Lichens The Idea for Heaven Lichens of The Morton Arboretum
Page 4 People & Projects Our Local Poisonous Plants: How Poisonous Are they? Shagbark Hickory, Carya ovata: Walnut Family (Juglandaceae) Walter Eickhorst: Forty-Six Years of Arboretum Loyalty People & Projects Prairie Profile: Jens Jensen & the Midwest Landscape Excerpts from “Siftings” People & Projects Observations on Arbor Lake End of Winter: Excerpts from a Seasonal Notebook Alfred G. Etter 1919-1978 Where Eagles Sleep Lessons from a Canyon & an Ecologist Alfred Gordon Etter: a Tribute Alfred Etter: Teacher & Friend Eloquent Witness of “Unmeasured Dimensions, Unmakable Things” Evanescent Things Plants Past: A Historian’s Use of Plants as Material Culture Evidence Orphans in the Plant World: Examples of Monotypic Families Healing in the Urban Environment: A Person/Plant Viewpoint Nature’s Paints and Palette Linnaeus in Lapland Dress: A Puzzling Portrait The Ginkgo: History of a Unique Tree Behind the Scenes with the TEA Guides: “Dear Mrs. Arboretum…” Catalpa, Catalpa speciosa: Bignonia Family (Bignoniaceae) How One Man Maintains 519 Acres: Right Priorities Make the Difference Prairie Poetry: Visions of the Past Walter Byron McDougall: Perspective on a Remarkable Life Tree Preservation: The Roots of the Problem Environmental Values of Urban Trees Shade Music Is Horticulture Too Ornamental? Quiet Season Making Ice at the Arboretum (in the Good old Days) Footnote The Flower Language Books of the Nineteenth Century The Outpost Wild Garden: a Volunteer Project in Practical Horticulture Excerpt from My Summer in a Garden The Ecology of Water – Three Views of Man’s Role The Future of Water in DuPage County The Ecology of Wastewater: Part of a Total Integrating System The Ecology of Wastewater at the Morton Arboretum The Prairie Enters History The Flora of Chicago: Tenacity & Enterprise Research Notes People & Projects The Lookout: Stalking the Yellow-Throated Turtle Woody Plant Collections at the Morton Arboretum: A Historical Perspective Special Care of the Morton Arboretum’s Woody Plant collections Research Notes Damage to Building Foundations: Do Tree Roots Play a Role? The Death of a Tree The Lookout Research Complex: Construction in Progress Bryophytes: Tiny Treasures of the Plant World The Lookout: Wildlife Observation Notes Research Notes Thoreau: A Man for the Coming Times The Heat of Many Summers’ Suns On Possum and Possumwood The Lookout: Wildlife Observation Notes The Arboretum as a Museum Woody Plant Collections at the Morton Arboretum: Content and Arrangement News and Notes
Page 5 Bottlebrush Buckeye: Mysteries of a Southern Delight Surprising Southerners: Some Woody Plants at Home Away from Home The Lookout: Wildlife Observation Notes: February 1982 A Day Long-Awaited: Dedication of the Morton Arboretum Research Center, July 17, 1982 Urban Horticulture: New Dimensions & New Directions Books & Gardens People and Projects Of Trees & People News & Notes Environmental Education for Fifth-graders The Brooding of Bubo The Boatload of Knowledge: New Harmony, Indiana, as a Center of Natural History in the Nineteenth Century Libraries and Computers The Lookout Research Notes Bryophytes of The Morton Arboretum Walking Through China in Search of Plants Peking: the Search Continues The Landscape of the Street Audubon—A Botanist’s Viewpoint A Note on Productivity Biennial Review of Major Programs 1982/1983 Chicago: Birthplace of Ecology J. Ronald Engel and the “Sacred Sands” of the Indiana Dunes Elizabeth “Sody” Thayer Zimmerman (Mrs. Austin M. Zimmerman) 1907-1984 Travels with Sody The Fragrance Garden Why Some Cultivated Plants Are So Hard to Name The Voices of the Trees Preserving the Thornhill Hawthorns Large Native Trees of the Morton Arboretum The Myth of the Taproot This is My Book: Oviedo’s La Historia General de las Indias 1535-1557 Guest Cover Artist Some Promising Woody Plants for Use in Urban Landscapes Life at Prairie Sun: Weeds, Water Bans, & Worried Neighbors Lawns at The Morton Arboretum News & c The Man Who Planted Hope & Grew Happiness Planting Hope in the Midwest News & Notes This is My Book II: The Cosmographia of Petrus Apianus, 1545 Research Notes Biennial Review of Major Programs 1984/1985 Giving City Trees a Better Chance to Survive Taking a Closer Look at Plants The National Crabapple Evaluation Program Marion Trufant Hall, Third Director of The Morton Arboretum: A Twenty-year Retrospective: 1966-1986 A Trustee’s Perspective Research Under Dr. Marion T. Hall’s Administration: A Scientist’s Perspective An Administrator’s Perspective Accomplishments of The Morton Arboretum During the Tenure of Dr. Marion T. Hall, Director, 1966 to Present Trees This is My Book III: The Flora Lapponica of Carl Linnaeus, 1737 The Lookout: Mixtures at Marmo A Historical Survey of Botanical Illustration John & Kitty Kohout Ray Schulenberg: A Colleague’s Appreciation Another Southern Delight: The Witch Alders (Fothergilla spp.) Another Family Member: Ozark Witch Hazel Fall Color In Memoriam: Garfield King 1914-1987 Research Notes Ernest J. Palmer – The Morton Arboretum Connection
Page 6 The Arboretum’s East Woods: Are They Forever? Save This Program from Extinction Biennial Review of Major Programs 1986/1987 The Netherlands: Part I: A Planned Country The Emily Rodgers Davis Chair This is My Book IV: L’Heritier de Brutelle’s Stirpes Novae; 1785-1791 The Netherlands: Part II: Synthesis Julian Steyermark’s Arboretum Connection A Tall Tale Clarence E. Godshalk, 1897-1988: An Appreciation The Morton Arboretum Weather Station Chinkapin Oak: Satisfaction for the Homeowner, Skullduggery for the Botanist Mushrooms of the Morton Arboretum: I 1989 Volunteer Night Remarks Joy Morton and the Forbidden City: A Mystery Solved? The Sterling Morton Library Collection of Herbals The Display Gardens in … Winter The Scanning Electron Microscope at Work Documenting the Parentage of the ‘Marmo’ maple Birds, Fruit Color, and Plant Distribution A Farewell Message Mark Catesby, Founder of American Ornithology: An essay to celebrate the acquisition of his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (3rd edition, 1771) by the Sterling Morton Library The Nature Artists’ Guild of the Morton Arboretum A New Director for the Arboretum Landscape Features of The Morton Arboretum A Brief Summary of the Arboretum’s Expedition to China The Arboretum’s Architectural Heritage: Part I The Morton Arboretum in 1925: Some of the Landscape Features The Arboretum’s Architectural Heritage: Part II Peking Lilac (Syringa pekinensis) The Arboretum’s China Expedition: Implications for the Collections Mushrooms of the Morton Arboretum: II Summer-sweet Clethra (Clethra alnifolia) News & Notes A Sad Lesson in Natural History The Nature Study and Camera Club: 25 Years and Growing Winterberry Holly (Ilex verticillata) Seeds from the Edge Lacebark Pine (Pinus bungeana) The Arboretum’s Architectural Heritage: Part III Elm Breeding and Improvement at The Morton Arboretum Eastern Redbud (Cercis Canadensis L.) Thirty Years of Prairie Reconstruction Annette Rossi Named Development Administrator Kissing Cousins: Sumacs and Maples Red-Leaf Rose (Rosa glauca): An Attractive But Uncommon Species Rose A Rose By Any Other Name… Looking Through a Portal in Time Sweet-Fern (Comptonia peregrina) Woody Plants and Roadway Salt: An Urban Dilemma Some Broad-Leaved Evergreens for the Chicago Region Repanda Juniper (Juniperus communis ‘Repanda’) Seed Exchange: A Cooperative International Program The Return of the Bluebirds A Tree for All Seasons: Apple Serviceberry, Amelanchier x grandiflora The Gypsy Moth in Illinois The Benefits and Beauty of Mulch ‘Frau Dagmar Hastrup’: A Rosa rugosa cultivar Plants Under Attack by MLOs Mycoplasma-like Organisms Making Connections Between Trees and People: Environmental Education at the Morton Arboretum Hill’s Oak (Quercus ellipsoidalis) Tough Trees for Urban Environments Developing Better Elms: The Plant-resistance Component of Integrated Pest Management Western Red Cedar: Thuja plicata
Page 7 The Bird and the Pine Arbor Day: A Morton Tradition Arrowwood Viburnum, Viburnum dentatum Chicagoland Grows – A Cooperative Plant Introduction Program Surprises in the Sleeping Land American Hornbeam, Carpinus caroliniana The Urban Forest: A Review of Arboretum Research in Urban Forestry Birds: Can They Affect Forest Tree Composition? Japanese Stewartia, Stewartia pseudocamellia The Hedge Garden: Rehabilitating an Arboretum Treasure Miyabe Maple: A Tree Worth Knowing More About What’s In a Name? New Elms for Urban Landscapes David Elm (Ulmus davidiana): A Promising New Tree for Urban Landscapes Vines: Overlooked Treasures of The Morton Arboretum Native Vines of the Chicago Region Hardy Kiwi Vine (Actinidia kolomikta) Vines: Overlooked Treasures of The Morton Arboretum (Part II) Laying the Foundation: Landscape Architecture at The Morton Arboretum, O.C. Simonds and Clarence Godshalk, 1922-1953 The Developing Landscape: The Morton Arboretum Comes of Age, Anthony Tyznik, 1953-1993 Ginkgo (Maidenhair Tree), Ginkgo biloba The Future of the Arboretum Landscape A Look Back Arbor Day Thoughts The Arboretum As a Museum A Tall Tale Fall Color Some Ecological Considerations for Urban Tree Selection Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Letter to Joy Morton Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Three-Year Index: 1968-1970, Volumes 4-6 Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary Climatological Summary
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