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Maintained by the university's Botany Department, the garden is home to more than 500 plant species.
Detail of one small portion of the highly ornate lintel above the bank's main entrance.
At this close range it becomes apparent that the American Terra Cotta Company ornament fabricated to Louis Sullivan's specifications features a pale-green glaze that also contains darker flecking that gives it greater perceived texture.
That glaze was formulated from ball clays imported from England. But the crackling effect and darker polygonal areas visible in places are probably the result of decades of weathering in Wisconsin's unforgiving and extremist continental climate.
Hidden from view under the colored surface is the separately fired bisque clay taken from late-Pleistocene Lemont Formation till deposits that were mined on the American factory grounds in McHenry County, Illinois.
The leaves that dominate this section of the design are more proof, should you need it, the Sullivan's botanimania. But as endlessly inventive as Sullivan's hand, eye, and mind were in drafting organic forms, it's clear that his fancies were anchored in classical precedents.
I'm not sure when in the mists of antiquity architects first became enamored with the foliage of the genus Acanthus, but its use as a motif in Ancient Greek designs was certainly widespread (e. g., in Corinthian column capitals).
The Acanthus species that probably served as models for the Greeks were A. spinosus and A. mollis. Both taxa have leaves that are pinnately compound or pinnately lobed to a greater or lesser extent. This natural variability is matched by the quite dissimilar shapes designers have come up with under the general Acanthus heading.
The leaves pictured above are certifiably acanthoid, and they represent Sullivan's own conscious or unconscious take on this time-honored motif.
The other photos and descriptions of this series can be found in my Geology & Botany of the Sullivan Jewel Boxes album.
Taken at the New York Botanical Gardens in the Bronx.
Creative Commons photo by ideonexus. Please feel free to reuse for any purpose!
www.archive.org/details/floralworldgarde01hibb
The Floral world and garden guide (1858)
by Shirley Hibberd, 1825-1890
Volume: 1, 1858 Not in copyright
Slide from a set used to teach biology at Belleville Collegiate Institute and Vocational School, Belleville, Ontario, possibly in the 1920s. The original boxes were labelled 'Junior' and 'Senior', but the contents appear to have been mixed up.
Donated to the Community Archives of Belleville and Hastings County by Mike and Sue Mills in October 2015.
這是抵達澳洲時
在FB發的第一張打卡照
周五夜心血來潮
用電腦重新調整了一下
左向右兩片海灘
分別是卧龍崗市的Wattamolla Beach
以及皇家國家公園的Marley beach
而本班機正轉向至畫面右方的植物學灣
我們即將降落
緊鄰此灣的雪梨國際機場
小知識時間 以下節錄自維基
植物學灣 Botany Bay
1770年4月29日
在完成紐西蘭沿海航行後
詹姆斯·庫克上校搭乘努力號帆船抵達此處
並從這裡踏上了澳洲大陸
隨後此處成為了英國政府的計劃流放地
但第一批歐洲移民
最終選擇了植物學灣稍北的雪梨灣作為定居點
然後不是蘋果執行長那個庫克
The "ideal library". A small shopfront library with exquisite design and planning. Many, many innovative features. Co-located with a commercial bookshop and cinema.
The BLM keeps America's Great Outdoors lush and beautiful by supplying and managing native plants for the restoration and rehabilitation of our public lands.
Visit us online to learn more about the BLM's botany programs: www.blm.gov/or/programs/botany/index.php