Henry Phillips (horticulturist)

Henry Phillips (horticulturist) Henry Phillips Linnean Society of London FLS Royal Horticultural Society FRHS (c. 1779 – 8 March 1840) was a botanist, Horticulture horticultural writer, and Landscape architecture landscape gardener. Quotes The Chinese hold some particular kinds of flowers in great veneration, especially the Enkianthus, which they call Too Chong Fa: its flowers are deemed grateful to the gods; and, accordingly. at the commencement of the Chinese New Year Chinese new year,when the plant is generally in blossom, large branches with flowers are placed in all the temples as an acceptable new year's offering. Introduction v–xliv Flora Historica: Or, The Three Seasons of the British Parterre Historically and Botanically Treated: with Observations on Planting, to Secure a Regular Succession of Flowers from the Commencement of Spring to the End of Autumn Volume I revised 2nd London E. Lloyd & Son 1829 https://books.google.cg/books?id=rdQ1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR18 (quote from p. xviii; 1st edition 1824) The ancient and silent language of flowers lends its aid to gratitude, friendship, filial love, and maternal fondness. Even affliction may be soothed by the emblematical communication of sentiment. Jean-Antoine Roucher Roucher, when imprisoned by the tyrants of the Reign of Terror revolutionary tribunal of France, amused himself by the study of floral language, his daughter being allowed to send him flowers to the prison. Thence a few days before he met his fate on the scaffold, he sent back to this favorite child, two dried Lilium lilies, to express both the purity of his heart, and the fate which awaited him. Floral Emblems London Saunders & Otley 1825 https://books.google.com/books?id=7OoGAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA10 10 (352 pages) Potatoe is the English name of the tuberose-rooted esculent Lycopersicon, or Solanum, of botanical writers. It was evidently so called on account of its similarity to the batata, the Taíno language Indian name of the sweet potato, which was known in Europe at least thirty-three years before this country was blessed with the potatoe, which now forms alike the rich man's luxury and the poor man's bread! Volume 2 The Companion for the Kitchen Garden, Henry Phillips The Companion for the Kitchen Garden: History of Cultivated Vegetables; Comprising Their Botanical, Medicinal, Edible, and Chemical Qualities; Natural History, &c. &c London Henry Colburn & Richard Bentley 1831 https://books.google.com/books?id=zVgZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA78 78 In Robert Dodsley Dodsley's The Annual Register Annual Register for 1758, p. 116, mention is made of an oak in Langley Wood and Homan's Copse Langley-wood, near Downton, Wiltshire Downton, Wilts, the property of the Bishop of Salisbury, supposed to be of near one thousand years growth. It was six feet two inches in diameter, contained about ten tons of timber, and was sold for forty pounds. The Companion for the Orchard: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Great Britain new London Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley 1831 https://books.google.com/books?id=1DBJAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA9 9 (372 pages) Pomarium Britannicum (1820) Theophrastus, who wrote about 300 years before Christ, mentions the almond as the only tree in Greece that produced the blossoms before the leaves. ...The almond-tree was not cultivated in Italy in the time of Cato, who calls the fruit, nucces græcæ, or greek nuts. Pomarium Britannicum: An Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits Known in Great Britain London Henry Coburn & Company 1821 https://books.google.com.gh/books?id=cxQDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33 33 (378 pages; 1st edition 1820) Leonhard Rauwolf Rauwolfus,who was in the Levant in 1573, was the first European author who made any mention of coffee. p. 110 Exlternal links Category:1779 births Category:1840 deaths Category:Botanists from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Science authors