100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names (36 page)

Brompton Park Nursery, and stocks,
203

Buddhist monks,
42

Buddle, Adam,
29

Buddleia
,
10
.
See also
Butterfly Bush

Buffon, Georges Leclerc, Comte de,
226
–27

Bullein, William, and
Bulwarke of Defence
,
219

Burbank, Luther,
59
,
168

Burchell, William,
144

Burpee,
234

Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin de,
121
,
214

Busy Lizzie,
103

Bute, John Stuart,
234

Bute, Lady,
57
,
233
–34

Butterflies,
30
,
78

Butterfly bush,
29
–30

Byrd, William,
232

C

Calcium oxalate,
54

Calendula officinalis. See
Marigold

California poppy,
31
–32

Callimachus,
17

Callistephus chinensis. See
Aster

Calves' snout,
198

Camellia,
33
–34

Campsis. See
Trumpet Vine

Canada,
85

Canary creeper,
154

Candytuft,
35
–36

Canterbury bells,
25

Canton,
112

Cape jasmine,
81

Cardinal flower.
See
Lobelia

Carnation,
37
–38

Carolina Kidney Bean,
227

Carpet bedding,
127
,
152
,
193

Cassava,
232

Catalpa,
213

Catesby, Mark,
137
,
195
,
197
,
227

Cats.
See
Conjecture

Cattley, William,
156

Cattleya,
156

Cesalpino, Andrea,
184

Chaenomeles. See
Japonica

Chamisso, Adelbert,
31
–32

Charles I,
111

Charles V,
140

Charleston, South Carolina,
82

Chelsea Physic Garden,
74

Chevaux de Vénus
,
131

China berry.
See
Crape Myrtle

China:
23
–24,
30
,
34
,
41
–42,
47

emperor of,
2
,
8
,
173

mandarins,
79

missionaries to,
8
,
9
,
10

plants from,
1
–2,
6
,
8
,
9
,
16
,
19
–20,
23
,
30
,
33
–34,
41
,
44
,
62
,
65
,
74
,
92
,
95
,
105
,
107
,
108
,
112
,
124
,
137
,
164
,
165
,
173
,
179
,
188
,
201
,
212
,
223
–24,
227

treaties with,
2
,
9
,
23

Chinese aster.
See
Aster

Christmas flower.
See
Poinsettia

Christmas rose,
39
–40

Chrysanthemum,
41
–42,
58
,
112

Classification of plants and botanical systems.
See
Buddle, Adam; Linnaeus, Carolus; Ray, John; Theophrastus; Tournefort, Joseph de

Cleistogamy,
218

Clematis,
43
–44

Cleopatra,
22
,
175

Clove,
38
,
202

Clovis,
105

Clusius (Charles de l'Ecluse),
214

Coats, Alice,
182
,
201

Cochineal insects,
56

Colchicum,
63

Colchicine,
63

Cole, Silas,
208

Collenuccio, Pandolfo,
51

Collinson, Peter: and Bartram,
68
,
83
,
185

gardenia,
83

and Lord Petre,
34

Columbine,
45
–46

Comfortable seduction, and Cleopatra,
22

Commelin brothers,
84

Commelin, Jan,
84

Commerson, Philibert,
27
–28,
101

Compton, Bishop Henry,
11
,
25
,
197

Coneflower.
See
Rudbeckia

Conjecture: bachelordom antidepressant,
112

blue hair, horticultural parallel to,
100

cats, intrinsic worth of,
27
–28

cohabitation, philosophic cogitation concerning,
109

eye-balling,
234

female cycle, floral code and,
33

healthy foot-wear,
123

horticultural aspirations,
36

horticultural dissembling,
52

imagined expletives,
160

imperial bedfellow,
121

murdered housemaids,
186

seduction strategy,
156

sentimentality,
18

sleeping arrangements, priority of,
10

Consequa,
227

Consolida
,
115

Constantinople,
121

Convolvulus,
146

Cook, Captain,
71

Corinthian column,
17
,
18

Cornelian cherry,
66

Cornus. See
Dogwood

Cornutia
,
96

Cosmos,
233

Cranesbill,
84
,
85

Crape myrtle,
47
–48

Crete,
35
,
70
,
108
,
164

Crocosmia. See
Montbretia

Crocus,
49
–50

saffron,
49
–50,
140

Crusades,
6
,
90
,
105
,
135

Crystal Palace,
208
,
221

Culpeper, Nicholas,
5
,
91
,
230

Cunningham, James,
34

Cunningham, Richard,
xiii

Cupani, Father Franciscus,
207

Curtis, William,
78

Cyclamen,
50
–51

Cydonia.
See
Japonica

Cyprus,
156

D

D'Incarville, Father Pierre,
8

Daffodil,
53
–55

Dahl, Dr. Anders,
56

Dahlia,
56
–57

Daisy
,
41
,
58
–59

Damascus,
188

Damask,
188

Dampier, William,
155

Dana, Mrs. William Starr,
130

Darwin, Charles,
46
,
73
,
78
,
130
,
135
,
146
,
167
,
180
,
194
,
199

Darwin, Erasmus,
78
,
102

Datura,
60
–61

David, Père Armand,
9
–10,
30

and
Buddleia davidii
,
10
,
30

and davidia tree,
10

Daylily,
62
–63
,
142

Deforestation,
20
,
30

Delavay, Père Jean Marie,
10

Delphinium,
115
–17

Dendranthema. See
Chrysanthemum

Deshima Island,
65
,
97
,
107

Deutz, Johann van der,
64
–65

Deutzia,
64
–65

Dianthus. See
Carnation

Dicentra. See
Bleeding Heart

Diervilla
,
93
,
223
,
224
,
225

Dierville, M.,
223

Digitalis. See
Foxglove

Dillenius, Johann Jacob,
169

Dimorphism,
180

Dioscorides,
70
,
84
,
175
,
198
,
229

Dogwood,
66
–67

Dombey, Joseph,
88
–89

Douglas, David,
xiii
,
13
–14

Downing, Andrew Jackson,
44

Dragons,
198
,
199

Drummond, James,
171

Drummond, Thomas,
170
,
171

Dumas, Alexandre,
33

Dye,
56
,
67
,
81
,
91
,
103
,
116
,
140
,
150

E

Earle, Alice Morse,
178

East India Company,
34
,
42
,
65
,
97
,
107
,
107
,
227

Edgehill, Battle of,
111

Edible plants,
42
,
50
,
56
–57,
62
,
69
,
86
,
90
–91,
103
,
140
,
154
,
155
,
159
,
177
,
187
,
193
,
204
,
206
,
222
,
230
,
232

Egypt: alchemy in,
113

Alexandria,
119

gods of,
104
,
221

lotus,
221

Ehret, Georg,
137

Eleanor of Aquitaine,
188

Eliot, George,
78
,
132

Elizabeth I,
118

Ellacombe, Canon H. N.,
29
,
52

Ellis, John,
81
,
83

Elm, American,
174

Embroidery,
111

Endymion
,
26

English bluebell,
25
,
26

English literature, flowers in,
33
,
55
,
93
,
99
,
106
,
108
,
112
,
208

Epiros, Oracle of,
134

Erodiums,
85

Eschscholtz, Dr.,
31

Eschscholzia. See
California Poppy

Euphorbia pulcherrima. See
Poinsettia

Euphorbus,
175

Euryale amazonica
,
221

Evening primrose,
68
–69

Everlasting flower,
70
–71

Exbury,
186

Extraneous considerations.
See
Conjecture

Eye: cataract operations,
97

iris of,
104

and Zinn,
233
–34

F

Fairchild, David,
20

Fairy-bells.
See
Foxglove

Fall-blooming plants.
See
Autumn-Blooming Plants

Ferdinand I,
214

Feverfew,
41

Flag.
See
Iris

Fleur-de-lis,
105

Flies,
73

Florist societies,
180

Forget-me-not,
72
–73

Forrest, George,
8
,
110

Forsyth, William,
74
–76

Forsythia,
1
,
74
–76

Forsythia, white.
See
Abelia

Fortune, Robert: dangers encountered by,
24

exploration in China,
23
–24

plants collected by,
6
,
23
,
42
,
44
,
74
,
109
,
223
–24

Fothergill, Dr. John,
43

Fox hunting,
77
–78

Fox, Francis,
87

Foxglove,
77
–78

France,
18
,
27
,
48
,
49
,
56

horticultural society of,
137

Paris,
6
,
8
,
33

the French Revolution,
31
,
48
,
61
,
89

roses,
188
,
189

treaties of,
9

world exhibition in,
154

and World War I,
176

Francis I,
121

Frankincense,
119
,
123

Frederick, Prince of Wales,
234

Fuchs, Leonhard,
77
,
79
–80

Fuchsia,
21
,
79
–80

Funck, Heinrich Christian,
96

Funkia.
See
Hosta

G

Garden, Dr. Alexander,
81
–83

Gardenia,
81
–83

Gardens: botanical,
xii

Belfast,
170

Cairo,
143

Calcutta,
103

Ceylon,
112