Hortus Uptonensis; or, a catalogue of stove and green-house plants, in Dr. Fothergill's garden at Upton, at the time of his decease / [With an introduction by J.C. Lettsom containing some directions for bringing over seeds and plants from distant countries].
- John Coakley Lettsom
- Date:
- [1783?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Hortus Uptonensis; or, a catalogue of stove and green-house plants, in Dr. Fothergill's garden at Upton, at the time of his decease / [With an introduction by J.C. Lettsom containing some directions for bringing over seeds and plants from distant countries]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 13 ] find may be done with very little trouble. For this purpofe, fome 'printers ink*, and a pair of printer s boffes,fuch as are ujed for laying the ink on types, are necejfary. sifter rubbing thefe bcffes with a little of the ink, lay the plant betwixt them, and prefs it fo as to give it fuffcient colour ; then take the plant and lay it carefully on a Jheet of paper, and prefs it with the hand, to give the imprejfion cf the plant to the paper, which may be afterwards coloured according to nature; a piece of blotting- paper may be placed betwixt the plant and the hand, to prevent the latter from being dirtied by the ink. But the on oft effectual method offending a branch of any plant, with the flowers and parts of fructi¬ fication entire and perfect, is to put them in bottles of brandy, rum, or arrack. Corals, corallines, fponges, &c. inhabitants of the fea, are found in confiderable variety near the coafts of iftands and continents, particularly in hot climates. Some of thefe are very tender and brittle when dry, and ftoould therefore be carefully packed up in fund, in order to keep them fteady, or placed betwixt papers in the manner of an hortus ficcus. In hot climates, the infeCts are very rapacious; and I have fleen the fineft fan-corals, and others of a Jo ft texture when fir ft taken out of the fea, almoft devoured by ants, before they became dry and hard. Fo prevent injuries of this kind, a little * Where this cannot he procured, ivory, or lamp-black, ground with boiled linfeed-oil, may be fubflituted.- powdered \](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30359624_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
