Artifacts Collection: Plant Life

"The Nature of Corn: Corn and the Environment"

Plant Illinois (2)

Soybeans (information packet) (book-shaped hard cardboard fold-out)

Agriculture

Amazing World of Plants (The Question and Answer Book)

Captain Cornelius (comics) (30)

Corn is Maize: The Gift of the Indians

Eyewitness Book: Plant

Eyewitness Book: Tree

Flowers (Golden Nature Guide)

Flowers (Usborne First Nature)

Guide to the Trees of Bloomington, Illinois

How and Why: The Wonder Book of Mushrooms, Ferns, and Mosses

How and Why: The Wonder Book of Trees

How and Why: The Wonder Book of Wildflowers

Johnny Appleseed

Killer Plants: The Venus Flytrap, Strangler Fig, and Other Predator Plants

Mysteries and Marvels of Plant Life (Usborne)

Naturescope: Rainforests: Tropical Treasures (Ranger Rick’s)

Naturescope: Trees are Terrific (Ranger Rick’s)

Plant Experiments (A New True Book)

Plants: Improving Our Environment (comic book)

A Pocket Guide to Trees

Prairie (Discovery Unit, Field Museum) (in blue binder w/clear cover)

Teacher’s Manual and Student Activities Booklet

The Tree

Trees (Golden Nature Guide)

Trees (Usborne First Nature)

Kids Discover:

"Trees" (blue binder w/clear cover)

National Geographic

"Corn, the Golden Grain" (June 1993) (tagboard binder)

Ranger Rick

"The Truth About Toadstools" (September 1989) (blue binder w/clear cover)

Collages of vegetables & fruit (4) (mounted)

Corn (small picture) (steps from harvest to product) (no source given)

Farming Long Ago (8, B&W) (7 in 1 series; 1, no info)

An Old-Type Mill

Machine that Reaps and Binds, A

Plowing with a Horse (not part of series)

Reaping the Wheat Crop

Sowing a Wheat Field

Threshing of Wheat with Flail

Tractor-Drawn Reaper, A

Water Wheel for Grinding Grain, The

Wheat (small picture) (steps from harvest to product) (no source given)

Silk vegetables (10) (in 1 pkg)

Beans (6)

Carrot (1)

Pepper (1)

Tomatoes (2)

"Captain Cornelius" (16:20 min)

"In Celebration of Trees: The World’s Oldest Living Things" (50 min)

Wildflowers (38) (1 set of 5 by M. E. Eaton; 1 set of 33 color plates by M. E. Eaton) (unmounted single pages, laminated, in 8 ½" x 11" manila envelope)

Set 1

Black-eyed Susan/Jewel-weed (Touch-me-not)

Chicory or Blue Sailors/Button Bush

Showy Lady’s-slipper/Twin Berry (Partridge Berry) and Mayflower (Trailing Arbutus)

Wild Columbine/Broad-leaved Arrow-head

Wild Yellow Lily (Canada Lily), Turk’s Cap Lily/Witch Hazel

Set 2: "The Family Tree of the Flowers and Wild Flowers of the West" by Edith S. Clements) (info on back) (not complete – XXVII missing)

I. The Family Tree of the Flowers

II. Crowfoot Family

III. Poppy Family/Fumitory Family

IV. Caper Family/Mustard Family/Violet Family/Milkwort Family

V. Mallow Family/Geranium Family/Woodosrrel Family/Flax Family

VI. Rockrose Family/St. Johnswort Family/Pink Family/Four-o’clock Family/Buckwheat Family

VII. Heath Family/Indianpipe Family

VIII. Wintergreen Family/Primrose Family/Leadwort Family

IX. Gentian Family/Dogbane Family/Milkweed Family

X. Phlox Family

XI. Phlox Family/Potato Family/Waterleaf Family

XII. Waterleaf family/Morning-glory Family

XIII. Borage Family/Figwort Family

XIII. Dwarf Ginseng and Wax Currant/Lambsquarters and Mock Cucumber (different set)

XIV. Figwort Family

XV. Figwort Family/Broom-rape Family

XVI. Mint Family

XVII. Rose Family

XVIII. Pea Family

XIX. Pea Family

XX. Orpine Family/Gooseberry Family/Evening-primrose Family

XXI Evening-primrose Family (598)

XXII. Evening-star Family/Cactus Family, Buckthorn Family/Parsley Family

XXIII. Honeysuckle Family/Bellflower Family/Lobelia Family

XXIV. Aster Family

XXV. Aster Family

XXVI. Aster Family

XXVIII. Aster Family

XXIX. Lily Family

XXX. Lily Family

XXXI Lily Family

XXXII. Iris Family/Orchid Family

XXXIII. Aster family/Chicory family

Origins of Vegetables (or Vegetable Travelers) (30) (single pictures mounted on Green cardboard, laminated) (info on back) (paintings by Else Bostelmann)

Africa’s greatest contribution to the joy of eating is watermelon!/An African native of world popularity

Ancient Persians and their neighbors knew luscious muskmelons, native to Iran and near-by lands/Muskmelons originated in Persia

Asparagus and endive are ornamental when grown to flowering/Green gifts from the Mediterranean

Beets and Swiss chard are the same species. Both were well know to the Romans/First beets yielded only greens

Celery was medicine to the ancients, but parsley was a food; Romans thought eating parsley warded off drunkenness/Celery first used as medicine

Chinese cabbage and Chinese mustard are newcomers to the West/Missionaries sent seeds of these to Europe.

Cowpeas are just "peas" in the South. Northerners hardly know them/Companion of misery in slave ships

Cucumbers come from the warm hills and valleys of Northeast India/Pickles and salads owe a debt to India

Earliest voyages to tropical America found sweet potatoes/Sweet potato, another American

Eggplant and Indian Mustard – two more natives of subtropical India/Eggplant and Indian Mustard, two more Asiatics

From a wild thistle of Mediterranean lands, came our globe artichoke/Edible flower buds of a gorgeous thistle

Hard-shelled winter squash, borne on long trailing vines, was an important American Indian food/Squash named from Indian word

Head cabbage got its start in Southern Europe, was perfected farther north/Of cabbages and Celts

Indians carried lima beans into both continents from Central America/Two new beans from America

Kale and collards are the most primitive cultivated cabbages/Greeks and Romans grew kale and collards

Northern Europe contributed these two members of the cabbage clan/ Kohlrabi and Brussels sprouts

Okra, related to cotton, is native to the Abyssinian plains/Okra, or "gumbo’, from Africa

Onions and their kin provided food flavors in early Biblical times/Onions and other pungent lilies

Our garden rhubarb came from the Eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor/Near Eastern plant in American pies

Peas were introduced into Europe during the Stone Age; Spinach came much later/Garden peas and spinach from the Middle East

Peppers, valued as spices, were Columbus’s most immediately successful plant discovery in America/Garden pepper, both a vegetable and a condiment

Pre-Columbian Indians grew many kinds of tomatoes for food, yet whites long considered the "love-apple" poisonous/ The tomato had to go abroad to make good

Salsify and parsnip have been cultivated for 2,000 years/Two Mediterranean root crops

Sprouting broccoli and cauliflower are edible flower parts/Cabbage flowers for food

Summer squash and a rotund relative, the pumpkin, are also Native American/Long before "frost is on the punkin", summer squash is harvested

Sweet corn descends from maize grown on Andean slopes/As American as apple pie

The turnip is older than history; the rutabaga almost modern/Turnip and its hybrid offspring

The world’s most popular salad plant hails from the Near East/Universal boon to the salad bowl

Vitamin–conscious Americans now eat carrots for health as well as taste/Carrots for valuable Vitamin A

Western South America gave the potato to the world/World’s No. 1 vegetable

Pictures of ferns (16) (single pictures mounted on yellow cardboard, laminated) (info on back) (paintings by E. J. Geske)

Adder’s-tongue and climbing fern

Bracken

Bulblet bladder fern

Christmas fern

Common wood fern

Dwarf spleenwort

Eastern lady fern

How ferns reproduce

Interrupted fern

Maidenhair

Marginal fern

Marsh fern

Rattlesnake fern

Royal fern

Sensitive fern

Walking fern

Wildflowers (15) (single pictures mounted on green cardboard) (drawings by Mary E. Eaton)

Beach pea or everlasting pea and common milkweed

Blue vervain and pickerel weed

Bottle or closed gentian, larger or hyssop skullcap, and spiderwort

Corn cockle, sheep laurel or lambkill, and blazing star

Golden St. John’s-wort and prickly poppy

Mist-flower, pink corydalis, New York aster

Orange Milkwort and common dodder

Purple bergamot, hairy beard tongue, and crimson-eyed rose-mallow

Sheep sorrel or sour grass and English plantain

Sweet-scented shrub and pokeweed

Sweet-scented white water lily

Tansy or bitter button, Eastern silvery aster, and early goldenrod

Turtle-head and teasel

Venus’s looking-glass, fernleaf false foxglove, bluebell

Yellow fringed orchis, stiff yellow flax, and purple or water avens

Chara (red algae) (in plastomount)

Corn (corn germination) (Zea Mays) (in plastomount)

Equisetum arvense (horsetail or scouring rush) (in plastomount)

*Fern (life history) (in plastomount) (*in 1 pkg)

*Ginkgo (leaf, male cone & female cone-seed)(in plastomount)

Monocot and dicot flowers (in plastomount)

Mushroom types (all in same plastomount)

Bracket Fungus

Coral Fungus

Cup Fungus

Gilled Mushroom

Puffball

Pigeon Moss (Polytrichum) (all in same plastomount)

Antheridia - male organ

Archegonia - female organ

Sporophyte - spore-producing organ

Pine (life history) (all in same plastomount)

Sundew (Drosera) (insectivorous flowering plant) (in plastomount)

Yucca flower (diagram showing orientation of parts) (in plastomount)

Muir Woods

Vegetables & Fruit (4 sets) (color photos from a calendar, mounted on yellow cardboard, laminated) (no source given)

Cabbage head; bowl of tomatoes; winter squash and gourds; currants (4)

Eggplants in basket; crab apples; broccoli; assorted fruits, berries, vegetables, some nuts (4)

Peaches in bowl; strawberries in basket; plums; cherries; grapes; raspberries in bowl (6)

Bowl of fruit; raspberries; basket of vegetables; squash, red peppers, chili peppers (4)

"Fascinating Facts About Plants" / reproducibles on back(c. 1996, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Flowering Plant Life" (c. 1988, Creative Teaching Press, Inc.)

"Growing Stages of Corn"(4 pictures mounted on light tan cardboard) (no source)

A kernel of corn (parts of corn kernel)

Corn stalk w/ear growing on it

Ear of corn, shucks stripped back

Hands holding soil w/seedling growing in it

"How a Tree Grows" (c. 1945, US Gov’t. Printing Office)

"How Plants Make Food" / reproducibles on back (c. 1994, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"How Seeds Grow" / reproducibles on back (c. 1994, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"How Seeds Travel" / reproducibles on back (c. 1993, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Leaves" / reproducibles on back (c. 1993, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Parts of a Flowering Plant" (bean) (c. 1989, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Parts of a Tree" (c. 1991, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Plant Life" (c. 1985, American Teaching Aids)

"What is a Flower?" / reproducibles on back (c. 1995, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"What is a Fruit?" / reproducibles on back (c. 1995, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"What is a Tree?" / reproducibles on back (c. 1995, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"What is a Vegetable?" / reproducibles on back (c. 1995, Frank Schaffer Publications, Inc.)

"Where We Grow Our Trees" (c. 1943, American Forest Products Industries, Inc.)

"Wild Flowers of Spring: A cartograph of 102 early-blooming native plants characteristic of the various regions of the United States, The" (U.S.- shaped map outline filled with hand drawn flowers indicating areas where they grow) (c. The Curtis Publishing Co.)