Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens, GlasnevinH.M. Stationery Office, 1885 - 59 pages |
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Guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin (1885) David Moore,W. R. McNab No preview available - 2009 |
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Page 8 - Arranged to meet the requirements of the Syllabus of the Science and Art Department of the Committee of Council on Education, South Kensington.
Page 39 - A. costatnm, or A. colocasia, which grew by the edge of the water to the height of ten or twelve feet, and so near that I could reach them on both sides as we passed along. But the most magnificent objects were the fine trees of Astrapcea Wallichii, or viscosa. The name of this Malagasy plant was derived from the word for lightning, on account of the brilliancy of its flowers; and Sir Joseph Paxton and Dr. Lindley have thus spoken of A. Wallichii : — " One of the finest plants ever introduced....
Page 13 - ... eatable, and is sweet and round, and equal to an apple in bigness. Another lily grows in the same places, much like to a rose, with a certain fruit found in a calyx which grows on a separate stem, springing from the side of the root in form not unlike a wasp's nest, and containing divers kernels of the size of an olive stone, which are eaten either tender or dried. The byblus...
Page 38 - There is probably no other plant that is put to so many and such opposite and diversified uses. The whole bamboo is used for a great variety of purposes according to its size ; as for posts, props, poles of tents, tall frames for pigeons to light on, sign posts, poles for carrying water, luggage, palankeens or dhoolies, for...
Page 38 - ... poles for carrying water, luggage, palankeens or dhoolies, for floating rafts, for light scaffolding which can be erected quickly and run up to great heights, pecottahs over wells for raising water, swinging poles at feasts, small light bullock-carts, larger travelling covered carts, raised watch-houses for guarding crops, ladder and fire escapes, fishing-rods, poles for pushing boats, spear shafts, chairs, walking sticks, bastinado rods, water-pipes, floats for lines and nets, blow-pipes and...
Page 39 - ... poles for pushing boats, spear shafts, chairs, walking sticks, bastinado rods, water-pipes, floats for lines and nets, blow-pipes and distillery tubes, hookah pipes, bows and arrows. The joints when cut into lengths are also used as bottles, ewers, pots, oil or sugar vessels, and for a very ingenious mode of decorating floors by pricking a pattern through the bamboo, filling the joint with powdered chalk, and tapping it gently while rolling along the floor, immediately after the latter has been...
Page 27 - The pith-like tissues of the larger flowering stems were cut into thin strips, united together by narrowly overlapping margins, and then crossed, under pressure, by a similar arrangement of strips at right angles, constituted the
Page 15 - China. The root, trunk, and branches, broken up, are heated with water, in closed vessels, the volatilised Camphor being sublimed upon Rice-straw. It is further refined on its arrival in Europe.
Page 21 - The people who collect the gum are obliged to tie a cloth over their mouth and nostrils to prevent the small dusty particles from annoying them, as they produce incessant sneezing.