Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 5Sir Joseph Paxton Orr and Smith, 1838 - Botany Periodical devoted to the illustration in colour of new and uncommon plants grown in British gardens; although primarily horticultural in appeal, it contains the first descriptions of many new species. |
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Page 124 - The forms with which he sprinkles all the earth. Happy who walks with him ! whom what he finds Of flavour or of scent in fruit or flower, Or what he views of beautiful or grand In nature, from the broad majestic oak To the green blade that twinkles in the sun, Prompts with remembrance of a present God.
Page 6 - And bidst us still repeat, at morn and even ? — God ! Everlasting Father ! Holy One ! Our God, our Father, our Eternal All ! Source whence we came, and whither we return ; Who made our spirits, who our bodies made, Who made the heaven, who made the flowery land, Who made all made, who orders, governs all, Who walks upon the wind, who holds the wave In hollow of thy hand, whom thunders wait, Whom tempests serve, whom flaming...
Page 45 - A gigantic leaf, from five to six feet in diameter, salver-shaped, with a broad rim of a light green above, and a vivid crimson below, resting upon the water ; quite in character with the wonderful leaf was the luxuriant flower, consisting of many hundred petals, passing in alternate tints from pure white to rose and pink.
Page 44 - ... genus. But when the subject of the discovery is not only a new genus, but a plant of the most extraordinary beauty, — fragrant, — and of dimensions previously unheard of in the whole vegetable kingdom, except in the colossal family of Palms, an interest must then attach to it, which can rarely be possessed by a novelty in natural history. " Such a plant is the subject of the following notice ; a Water-lily, exhibiting a new type of structure, of the most noble aspect, of the richest colours,...
Page 124 - The Lord of all, himself through all diffused, Sustains, and is the life of all that lives. Nature is but a name for an effect, Whose cause is God.
Page 45 - The leaf on its upper surface is of a bright green ; in form almost orbicular, except that on one side it is slightly bent in ; its diameter measured from five to six feet ; around the whole margin extended a rim, from three to five inches high, on the inside light green, like the surface of the leaf, on the outside, like the leafs lower surface, of a bright crimson. The ribs are very prominent, almost an inch high, radiating from a common centre ; there are eight principal ones, with a good many...
Page 45 - The diameter of the calyx is twelve to thirteen inches, on it rests the magnificent flower, which, when fully developed, covers completely the calyx with its hundred petals. When it first opens, it is white, with pink in the middle, which spreads over the whole flower, the more it advances in age, and it is generally found the next day of a pink colour. As if to enhance its beauty, it is sweet-scented.
Page 44 - Schomburgk, a German gentleman, travelling on account of the Royal Geographical Society, assisted by Her Majesty's Government, for the purpose of examining the natural productions of that part of the British dominions. In an account of the plant, transmitted to the Geographical Society, Mr. Schomburgk speaks thus of his discovery. ' It was on the first of January this year, while...
Page 46 - We met them hereafter frequently, and the higher we advanced the more gigantic they became. We measured a leaf, which was six feet five inches in diameter, its rim five and a half inches high, and the flower across fifteen inches. The flower is much injured by a beetle, (Trichius, "Spec.?") which destroys completely the inner part of the disk, we have counted sometimes from twenty to thirty in one flower.
Page 45 - Berbice, that we arrived at a point where the river expanded, and formed a currentless basin ; some object on the southern extremity of this basin attracted my attention ; it was impossible to form any idea what it could be, and animating the crew to increase the rate of their paddling...