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
    Subject
    Biology
       > Botany
    Content object
    nature
       > plant
    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.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > North America
          > United States
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