A Treatise on the Growth and Future Management of Timber Trees and on Other Rural Subjects; With an Appendix. Addressed to the Landed Proprietors of North Derbyshire (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1859. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 7. Filices Exotica; Or, Century of Eiotic Ferns, particularly of such as are most deserving of Cultivation. ' By Sir W. J. Hooker, K.H., D.C.L. 100 coloured plates. Royal 4to, price 6. 11. The most magnificently illustrated work on Foreign Greenhouse Ferns that has yet appeared. 8. The Victoria Regia. By Sir W. J. Hooker, F.R.S. With four coloured plates by W. Fitch. Elephant folio, price 21. coloured. It is now fifty years, as far as our researches enable us to ascertain, since this truly royal plant was first detected. The honour of its original discovery is due to Hsenke under circumstances recorded as follows by M. A. D'Orbigny: --"When I was travelling," says this latter gentleman, "in Central America, in the country of the wild Guarayos, who are a tribe of Guaranis or Caribs, I made acquaintance with Father La Cueva, a Spanish missionary. In one of our interviews he happened to mention the famous botanist Hsenke, who had been sent by the Spanish Government in the year 1801 to investigate the vegetable productions of Peru, and the fruit of whose labours has been unfortunately lost to science. Father La Cueva and Hsenke were together in a pirogue upon the Rio Mamore', one of the great tributaries of the Amazon River, when they discovered in the marshes, by the side of the stream, a flower which was so surpassingly beautiful and extraordinary, that Hsenke, in a transport of admiration, fell on his knees and expressed aloud his sense of the power and magnificence of the Creator in His works. They halted, and even encamped purposely near the spot, and quitted it with much reluctance." 9. Illustrations of SihMm-Himalayan Plants, Chiefly selected from Drawings made in Sikkim under the superintendence of the late J. F. Cathcart, Esq., Bengal Civil Service. Th...