She began this work at the age of 74, when her sight would no longer serve her to paint, in which she much excelled; between her age of 74 and 82, at which time her eyes quite failed her, she executed the curious Hortus ficcus above-mentioned, which I suppose contains a greater number of plants than were ever before drawn from the life by any one person.

I am informed another very ingenious lady, Mrs. North, is constructing a similar Hortus ficcus, or Paper-garden; which she executes on a ground of vellum with such elegant taste and scientific accuracy, that it cannot fail to become a work of inestimable value.

Botany N. botany; physiological botany, structural botany, systematic botany; phytography^, phytology^, phytotomy^; vegetable physiology, herborization^, dendrology, mycology, fungology^, algology^; flora, romona; botanic garden &c (garden) 371 [Obs.]; hortus siccus [Lat.], herbarium, herbal. botanist &c; herbist^, herbarist^, herbalist, herborist^, herbarian^. V. botanize, herborize^. Adj. botanical &c n.; botanic^. 370.

Hortus principis et domus ad delectationem facia, cum sylva, monte et piscina, vulgo la montagna: the prince's garden at Ferrara Schottus highly magnifies, with the groves, mountains, ponds, for a delectable prospect, he was much affected with it: a Persian paradise, or pleasant park, could not be more delectable in his sight.

Hortus Coronarius medicus et culinarius, &c. 3374.

Hoc erit in votis, modus agri non ita parvus, Hortus ubi et tecto vicinus jugis aquae fons, et paulum sylvae, &c. Hor.

The floral outfit of pastoral poets, when Crabbe began to write, was a hortus siccus indeed.

Hortus; a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America, compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey.

BAILEY, ETHEL ZOE. Supplement to Hortus for the five current years including 1930.

Lydia Bailey (W); 5Oct62; R302419. BAILEY, L. H. Supplement to Hortus for the five current years including 1930.

SEE PERSING, ELLIS C. HORTUS.

Supplement to Hortus for the five current years including 1930.

Lydia Bailey (W); 15Jan68; R427307. BAILEY, L. H. Hortus second; a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America, by L. H. Bailey & Ethel Zoe Bailey.

Hortus; a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America, compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey.

BAILEY, ETHEL ZOE. Supplement to Hortus for the five current years including 1930.

Lydia Bailey (W); 5Oct62; R302419. BAILEY, L. H. Supplement to Hortus for the five current years including 1930.

I ran from auction to auction, became a critick in shells and fossils, bought a Hortus siccus of inestimable value, and purchased a secret art of preserving insects, which made my collection the envy of the other philosophers.

Indeed, I find a difficulty in procuring a hortus siccus.

LOUDON'S HORTUS BRITANNICUS.

Hortus principis et domus ad delectationem facta, cum sylvâ, monte et piscinâ, vulgò la montagna: the prince's garden at Ferrara, Schottus highly magnifies, with the groves, mountains, ponds, for a delectable prospect; he was much affected with it; a Persian paradise, or pleasant park, could not be more delectable in his sight.

p. 381; and the first edition of Hortus Kewensis under A. Napellus erroneously quotes that figure: but both Gmelin in Syst.

Now the fact is, that the Napellus is the Common Blue Monkshood; and the Neomontanum is altogether left out of the second edition of the Hortus Kewensis for the best of all reasons, it is not in this country; or, if it is, it must be very scarce, and, of course, not the plant used in medicine.].

That was where his books grew, and the biggest and finest of them was "Hortus Cliffortianus," the account of his patron's garden.

It would make, he said, a splendid place for a hortus siccusa "great ornament to our ponds and ditches."

They made a joint hortus siccus under his instruction.