His contemporary, Erasmus Darwin, author of The Botanic Garden, was trying to give sentimentalism a novel interpretation by describing the life of plants in terms of human life; but, Darwin being destitute of artistic sense, the result was grotesque.

The beautiful little rose-colored Nymphaea sanguinea, which once adorned the Botanic Garden at Cambridge, was merely an occasional variety of costume.

[Sidenote: Botanic Garden.]

I took a drive at six this morning, and then a walk through the botanic garden, which is attached to this house and has a great reputation.

The roadand all the roads round Port of Spain, thanks to Sir Ralph Woodford, are as good as English roadsruns between the Savannah and the mountain spurs, and past the Botanic Gardens, which are a credit, in more senses than one, to the Governors of the island.

To describe to you, therefore, the Botanic Garden (in which the cottage stands) would take a week's work of words, which would convey no images to your mind.

I drove out in the darkness of the dawn, under the bamboos, and Bauhinias, and palms which shade the road between the Botanic Gardens and the savannah, toward Port of Spain.

You back out, and find that you have walked into the tipsluckily only into the tipsof the fern-like fronds of a trailing and climbing palm such as you see in the Botanic Gardens.

I can conceive no limit to the effectsalways heightened by the intense sunlight and the peculiar tenderness of the distanceswhich landscape gardening will produce when once it is brought to bear on such material as it has never yet attempted to touch, at least in the West Indies, save in the Botanic Garden at Port of Spain.

{227} There is a grand specimen in the Botanic Garden; and several may be met with in any day's ride through the high woods, and distinguished at once from any other tree.

They are the fruit also of an enormous tree {230}there is a young one fruiting finely in the Botanic Garden at Port of Spainof a quite different order; a cousin of the Matapalos and of the Soap-berries.

Their Botanic Beer, Ginger Beer Essence, Fruit SyrupsRaspberry, Black Currant, &c.are all specially good.

Many a time I have walked from Harvard's leafy shades and cheerful halls out to the quiet of the Botanic Garden for the sake of hearing the wind in the pine tree-tops.

likewise complains, that at the Botanic Garden the bust of Linnaeus had been destroyed, on a presumption of its being that of Charles the Ninth; and if it had been that of Charles the Ninth, it is not easy to discern how the cause of liberty was served by its mutilation.

The Banyan tree in the Company's Botanic garden, is a fine tree, but it is of small dimensions compared with those of the trees just mentioned.

Bishop Heber tells us that the Botanic Garden here reminded hint more of Milton's description of the Garden of Eden than any other public garden, that he had ever seen.

There is a Botanic Garden at Serampore.

There is a Botanic Garden at Bhagulpore, which owes its origin to Major Napleton.

By WILLIAM SALISBURY, OF THE BOTANIC GARDEN OF SLOANE-STREET.

To the Subscribers to my Botanic Garden this will also prove of great service; it being intended to arrange the plants in their several departments, so as to make it a general work of reference both in the fields or garden.

BOTANIC GARDEN, Sloane Street, May 1816.

In our Botanic Garden it seldom exceeds the height of ten inches or a foot.

I have sometimes observed this to be the case in the Botanic Garden, but it is otherwise in its native state of growth.

I have one growing in my Botanic garden which is eight years old, and measures upwards of six cubic feet of timber.

Dr. Pulteney in tracing the history of Botanic science quotes Pliny for an account of the veneration in which this plant was held by the Druids, who attributed almost divine efficacy to it, and ordained the collecting it with rites and ceremonies not short of the religious strictness which was countenanced by the superstition of the age.

These are the Mountain Live Oak and the Kellogg Oak, named in honor of the admirable botanical pioneer of California.

Being accustomed to climb trees in making botanical studies, I experienced no difficulty in reaching the top of this one, and never before did I enjoy so noble an exhilaration of motion.

And what glorious botanical beds I had!

In 1815 he went with Otto von Kotzehue on a tour round the world, and on his return he settled in Berlin, having obtained a post in the Botanical Gardens.

If, therefore, the reader cares nothing for botanical and geological speculations, he will be wise to skip this chapter.

No doubt, too, I missed the larger half of what might have been found even at the time of my visit; for I made no pretense of doing any real botanical work, having neither the time nor the equipment.

[50] Botanical gardens do not seem to prosper under Spanish auspices.

Chamisso complains that, in his day, there were no traces left of the botanical gardens founded at Cavite by the learned Cuellar.

A more singular and less reputable character was that impudent quack, Sir John Hill, who, with his insolent attacks upon the Royal Society, pretentious botanical and medical compilations, plays, novels, and magazine articles, has long sunk into utter oblivion.

Ten model farms and a meteorological observatory are conducted in other provinces, together with a service of geological studies, a botanical garden and a museum, a laboratory and military academy and a school of telegraphy.

Then, when autumn comes and the leaves change, there is still endless variety for the little basket or botanical-case which swings lightly on your arm or hangs across your shoulder.

and an attempt to naturalize the same at the Cambridge Botanical Garden, page 217, of the present volume.

I discovered a little wild cactus growing freely amongst the rocks, and carried a handkerchief full of it home, getting myself well pricked by the spines, but to my botanical enthusiasm this was nothing in view of the discovery.

Long before the game at football was suggested they had obtained leave of absence from the captain, and, loaded with game-bag, a botanical box and geological hammer, and a musket, were off along the coast on a semi-scientific cruise.

He went quite into raptures with it, and stuffed his botanical box with mosses and rocks until it could hold no more, and became a burden that cost him a few sighs before he got back to the ship.

And now, I came over to tell you that the U.S.C. is going into New York to-day to see something of the Botanical Garden and the Arboretum.

They chatted on as they walked through the Botanical Gardens and exclaimed over the wonders of the hothouses and examined the collections of the Museum, but the edge had gone from the afternoon and they were not sorry to find themselves on the train for Rosemont.

The botanical position, appearance, etc., and general features of the tree and plant.1 illustration.

In my early days, for the supposed benefit of my health, I passed a winter in Tennessee, and, being unoccupied, except with my studies, I spent a great portion of my time in botanical and zoölogical excursions in the woods adjoining the city of Nashville.

BOAK, ARTHUR E. R., ed. Karanis; the temples, coin hoards, botanical and zoological reports, seasons 1924-31.

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BOTANICAL MUSEUM. Glass flowers, from the Ware Collection in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

BOTANICAL MUSEUM. Glass flowers, from the Ware Collection in the Botanical Museum of Harvard University.

I am gathering botanical specimens," and she opened her portfolio.

An allusion to the Palm tree recals some criticisms on Shakespeare's botanical knowledge.