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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was expensive to provide each medical school student with a microscope, but anatomical details of plants can be tough to see with the naked eye. Medical schools and museums (including the Smithsonian) relied instead on botanical models like these for student instruction.
Manufactured through the 1920s by the Brendel Company, a German firm founded by Robert Brendel in 1866, these botanical models are made of papier mache, wood, plaster, gelatin, and other materials.
Many can be “dissected” or disassembled to show the internal anatomy of flowers, fruits, and other organs.
Flowers represented in this set include cacoa, henbane, iris, poppy, and rose.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was expensive to provide each medical school student with a microscope, but anatomical details of plants can be tough to see with the naked eye. Medical schools and museums (including the Smithsonian) relied instead on botanical models like these for student instruction.
Manufactured through the 1920s by the Brendel Company, a German firm founded by Robert Brendel in 1866, these botanical models are made of papier mache, wood, plaster, gelatin, and other materials.
Many can be “dissected” or disassembled to show the internal anatomy of flowers, fruits, and other organs.
Flowers represented in this set include cacoa, henbane, iris, poppy, and rose.
Spend a couple of minutes away from winter, meditating inside Fort Wayne's Foellinger-Freimann Botanical Conservatory! Video made with my Olympus Stylus 1S camera..
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON, CONVERSAZIONE VISIT TO THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BOTANIC GARDEN, JULY 16TH 2011 (16)
Formal botanical garden label for the giant redwood (Sequoiadendron giganteum), now rather weathered. The conventional format of these labels is nicely explained on a special page of the Garden website, though this label does not include the provenance which would normally appear bottom R. This tree, together with the dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) in the accompanying photos, is part of a 'living fossil' collection in this area of the garden.
The further notes below are based partly on the Garden's website, and on a short report of this visit written by Vaughan Southgate & Brian Rosen (in press November 2011).
NOTE ON THE GARDEN
The garden is set in about 16 hectares (40 acres) of land containing about 8,000 different species of plants and trees from all over the world. The garden opened in 1846 and succeeded an older, smaller garden elsewhere in the city. Initially (1831), the University funded development of only the western half, the layout of which is credited to the first Garden Curator, Andrew Murray, in consultation with Reverend John Stevens Henslow, and is now a Grade II* Listed Landscape. Well-known as a mentor of Charles Darwin, Henslow was an all-round scientist, who was Professor of Botany in the University from 1825 to 1861. He had firm ideas about variation and the nature of species, and his garden planting scheme was conceived to illustrate this. So in an almost literal sense, the garden sowed the seeds of Darwin’s later thinking on these topics in the development of his own evolutionary ideas. The planting schemes were also laid out, according to plant systematics of the time, on a silt and sand soil, and this soil lies on chalk and flint. Owing to the low rainfall; extensive mulching is carried out, minimising the amount of watering necessary to keep the plants healthy. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used to an absolute minimum.
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Charles' Creature Cabinet's Botanical Faeries **semi translucent & Glow-in-the-Dark** resin colors, Coming Soon!
~Isilmë 11cm in "Ipheion uniflorum Blue" resin
~Fidelia 11cm in "Freesia White" resin
~Fuuga 11cm in "Helleborus orientalis Pink" resin
Handmade mohair wigs & flower faerie dresses by Marie's Wee Dolly Wears.
Handmade Sakura Hat by MuJa's Fairy Fragilities
Photo & Ball-Jointed Dolls Copyright ©2009-2017 Charles Grimberg-Stephan I Charles' Creature Cabinet I All Rights Reserved.
hardcover book with decorative floral botanical covers, 6-needle coptic stitching, decorative papers hug each signature.
May 15, 2024: Walk this morning in the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden to do some macro work with foggy skies.
The Montreal Botanical Garden (French: Jardin botanique de Montréal) is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising 75 hectares (190 acres) of thematic gardens and greenhouses. It was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 2008 as it is considered to be one of the most important botanical gardens in the world due to the extent of its collections and facilities