Pages 51-52 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'Observations on some plants flowering etc coming from China to England' by John Damper Parks

Title

Pages 51-52 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'Observations on some plants flowering etc coming from China to England' by John Damper Parks

Record type

Archive

Original Reference

RHS/Col/4/1/9

Date

24-27 Jan 1824

Scope & content

Pages 51-52: 'Observations on some plants flowering etc coming from China to England'

This item is bound in the volume comprising journal and notes of John Damper Parks

List of plants from China, including Camellia, specimen 41 ('deep red flower, in form like Paeonia, flowering kind, in England. It was not perfectly opened when I saw it, but it appeared in that character when I saw it in the Hythe at North Island in the Straits of Sunda [Sunda Strait]'), Camellia, specimen 2 in case 34 ('flower striped, but different from the common striped, the flower being fuller of petals and not opening so flat as the common one'), Orchidea species, specimen 60 in case 30 ('flower small green with two filaments to the corolla, about 1/2 inch long, very diminutive and insignificant, one might pass it and scarce observe it to be in flower'), Camellia, specimen 4 in case 34 ('certainly new, but it never opened, falling off in a bud state') and Camellia, specimen 13 ('the camellias never open their flowers well at sea, apparently to me. Captain Wilson [J.P. Wilson, captain of HCS Hythe] told me he found the same to be the case always with what he brought home' [here the list includes 7 more plants]

Extent

2 pages

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RHS archive: plant collector papers

Repository

Royal Horticultural Society Lindley Library

Copyright

Royal Horticultural Society

Credit Line

RHS Lindley Collections

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Non-commercial use with attribution permitted (CC BY-NC 4.0)