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Its large flowers are of vivid gold, pure and refined; the unmixed odour is obscene. But its essence mingles with the rest, and the compound is singularly rich and acceptable. I do not pretend to catalogue botanically all the plants that contribute to the specific odour of the island.
But the botanic spirit that Dr. Anderson had started remained alive in Madras; for in 1835, when, to the regret of many, his gardens had been split up into building-sites for two private residences, there was still a sufficient number of botanically inclined people in the city to found the Agri-Horticultural Society of Madras, a still-energetic body whose beautiful gardens at Teynampet deserve to be more generally appreciated by the public than they are.
But the next summer it grew as freely as ever, and retained its sober green until the cool days and nights; just as if the ebullition of the season previous was but a breaking out of extra color life, rather than a suggestion of weakness or death. The Norway maple is botanically Acer platanoides, really meaning plane-like maple, from the similarity of its leaves to those of the European plane.
The process may be botanically interesting, but there is something a little sickly about it, too there is a feeling that, after all, the acorn would have done better in its natural ground hidden away in darkness. And, if we have this feeling with regard to vegetable growth, how much more with regard to spiritual growth!
Though botanically different, they are extremely alike; the black wood as grown in some districts is superior, and the lignum vitae inferior in quality, to these timbers brought from other countries.
Of these, and many other beautiful trees belonging to the North American sylva, Alexis had read in fact, knew them botanically; but he wished to cultivate a still pleasanter acquaintance with them, by visiting them in their own native home.
"But, though composed of three Thibetian words, it is evidently of Indian origin, and I have proved it BOTANICALLY. The lotus is a plant peculiar to the lukewarm and temperate waters of India and Egypt. There is not one of its genus, or even of its family, in Thibet."
As this tree grows at a great distance from Esmeralda, and was at that period as destitute of flowers and fruits as the bejuco de mavacure, we could not determine it botanically.
Nothing is known botanically as to differences between the fruits of these varieties, but as a matter of fact the wild apples of different countries are not at all the same.
Therefore I have been experimenting botanically to discover a remedium for the state in question something that will act swiftly upon the blood, and directly dissipate such a clot as is spoken of above." "My dear Professor! I can announce with joy that this remedium is discovered.
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