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(Facing p. 45.)
Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Plants
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Missouri Botanical Garden Library, The Internet Archive
- Observations:
- After a drawing by S. Holden
Periodical
- Title:
- Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe, vol. 1
- Author(s):
- Van Houtte, Louis (under the direction of)
- Publisher:
- Ghent: Louis van Houtte, 1845
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
Mr. Smith’s yellow rose-bay (Rhododendron smithii aureum) is a plant in the family Ericaceae. It is described as follows in Paxton’s Magazine of Botany[1]:
This noble hybrid, which appears to be one of the handsomest and most distinct seedling Rhododendrons at present in existence, owes its origin to Mr Smith, nurseryman, of Norbiton near Kingston, Surrey, who procured it from a hardy seedling Rhododendron of his own, fertilised with the yellow-flowered Chinese Azalea, A. sinensis, and at whose request we have given it the above name.
- ^ Paxton, Joseph. Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, Vol. 9. London: W. S. Orr and Co., 1842, p. 79.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, color, Ericaceae, Flore des serres..., flower, periodical, reference book, yellow
