Credit: ©The Royal Society
Image number: RS.17637
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Hairy mock orange
Date
1838
Creator
S Watts (British) , Engraver
After
Sarah Anne Drake (1803 - 1857, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
49461
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 247mm
width (print): 150 mm
width (print): 150 mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Botanical study of the Hairy, or Streamback mock orange Philadelphus hirsutus here referred to as the Hairy syringa. The plant is native to the southern states of the USA, North America. The plate shows flowers and leaves, with a sectional detail of the plant’s reproductive organs.
Plate 14 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘14’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly March 1 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this plant is: ‘A small shrub, not more than three or four feet high, with a few thinly scattered branches. Mr. George Gordon, the under gardener in the Arboretum of the Horticultural Society’s garden…finds it the smallest of all the species…It was first discovered by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the rocky banks of French Broad River, Tennessee…’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
Plate 14 from Edwards’s botanical register…edited by John Lindley, new series v.1, (London, James Ridgway and Sons, 1838). The plate is inscribed ‘14’ above; and below ‘Miss Drake del. Pub by J. Ridgway, 169 Piccadilly March 1 1838. S. Watts sc.’
In the associated text, the author states that this plant is: ‘A small shrub, not more than three or four feet high, with a few thinly scattered branches. Mr. George Gordon, the under gardener in the Arboretum of the Horticultural Society’s garden…finds it the smallest of all the species…It was first discovered by Mr. Thomas Nuttall on the rocky banks of French Broad River, Tennessee…’
John Lindley (1799-1865) British botanist and horticulturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1828.
Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857), British botanical artist, was a long-term associate of the Lindley family and a prolific illustrator for James Lindley.
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