The companion for the orchard. An historical and botanical account of the fruits known in Great Britain / By Henry Phillips.

  • Phillips, Henry, 1775-1838.
Date:
1831
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Credit: The companion for the orchard. An historical and botanical account of the fruits known in Great Britain / By Henry Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bear hermaphrodite flowers, accompanied with male or female flowers, or both ; not inclosed within the same common calyx, but scattered either on the same plant, or on two, or on three distinct individuals ; whence the three orders of this class,—1. Monacia, 2. Diacia^ 3. Triacia. Polygynia.—The name of one of the orders in the fifth, sixth, twelfth, and thirteenth classes in the Linnsean system; comprehending those plants which have flowers with many pistils. Peceptaculum.—A receptacle; the base by which the other parts of the fructification are connected. Stamen.—An organ, or viscus, for the preparation of the pollen; and formed from the wood. It is the third in the fructification, and consists of the filament and anther. Syngenesia.—The name of the nineteenth class in Lin- nseus’s artificial system ; comprehending those plants which have the anthers united into a cylinder. The following anecdote, as related by Ray, will prove how necessary it is for all classes of men to be in some measure acquainted with botany : the counsellor who would be a judge, the student who would be a pleader, the juryman who would give an honest verdict, and the party who would gain his cause, will, in this instance, see the importance of botanical information. Baal, who was a gardener at Brentford, in Middle¬ sex, having cultivated a remarkably fine cabbage, sold a large quantity of the seeds to several gardeners about the suburbs of London. They committed them to the ground after the usual manner; but, instead of the sort Baal had made them believe would spring up, they proved to be chiefly the brassica longifolia, instead of the florida. His incensed customers, in a body, instantly commenced.