Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson].
- Henry, Mary Jackson
- Date:
- 1797
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Botanical dialogues, between Hortensia and her four children, Charles, Harriet, Juliette and Henry / Designed for the use of schools. By a lady [i.e. Miss M.E. Jacson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[4^ ] two Scales, or Stipules, protc(ft and cheriHi them till they acquire fufficient {Irength to fupport themfelvcs. The Stipules of the plane tree (platanus) add much to the beauty of the tree ra fpring, being formed like little, ruffs which furround the branches. In peach (amy^gdalus) and bird-cherry (prunus) the Stipules refemble two very finall narrow leaves, and are feated at the bafe of the Petiole of the common leaves. The Tendril you are all acquainted with; thole plants are generally furnidied with thi& kind of Stipule, which are not ftrong enough to fupport themfelves, Vines (vitis) twift themfelves round other trees by their clafpers or tendrils, and thus raife thernfelves from the ground. Long poles are placed in our hop-yards for the fupport of the hop plants (humulus), which make a very elegant appearance in their moft luxuriant feafon ; their natural place of growth is in hedges, where they readily find fup- porters; all thefe climbing plants are in foine degree injurious to the tree of which they take hold for fupport, as they de- prive it of that ffiare, of light a^d air, to which it has a natural right. There are however fome climbing plants, which feem in-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28762514_0104.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
