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Monserrate Pena Sintra PortugalGerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.comBlogger899125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-24965713408353488072015-11-24T10:23:00.004-08:002015-11-24T10:23:32.760-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-1127483630466653912010-12-14T13:43:00.001-08:002010-12-14T13:43:21.512-08:00The Gardens of Madeira - ReviewsThe kaleidoscope of colours virtually glow on the pages, inviting us to enter a world that's altogether more vibrant than our own. - Scotsman<br />
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Madeira is famed for its lush, sub-tropical gardens, and this lavish book captures them in all their beauty. Pure escapism, and the perfect thing to leaf through on a cold winter's night. - Daily Mail<br />
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For garden visitors and armchair travellers. - Irish Times<br />
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Madeira is truly a magical island, from a botanical persepective, filled with wild flowers. Here, at last, is a book that does justice to its gardens as opposed to the dazzling natural scenery. The author is a garden designer living on mainland Portugal who has been making gardens on the island since 1991. He has produced an evenly written text, not at all 'gushy' - there is even a smattering of judicious criticism. Highlights include the Monte palace and the immaculate " Victorian" English garden at Quinta Vigia. - Daily Telegraph<br />
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The British have always loved the island of Madeira for its climate and the gardens it can produce. Now we have The Gardens of Madeira from the designer Gerald Luckhurst, who has worked there for years. The Portuguese and English influences can clearly be seen in the older gardens that relish the subtropical expat style of herbaceous borders, camellias and monkey puzzles; but there are newer gardens too, just as plant-rich and Luckhurst’s Madeira Magic, for all its commercial origins, is one of the island’s most interesting plantings. - TimesGerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-10904780618694847412010-10-29T13:39:00.000-07:002010-10-29T13:39:02.877-07:00Essential Madeira - The garden visionary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylzbq9a_pqYEWp8wKzdd54IcSfrvdnC9u5HB0eSWyUgM7fwDcI1H8vm0iqyyU0uSgotb1yh02hSqHTInGuj44pjbHiaV7WbD28dWkW3fuKgL0xUgFjUY1OsEjdjdYwxQKCalVVuy5dD8/s1600/Essential+Madeira.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="218" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhylzbq9a_pqYEWp8wKzdd54IcSfrvdnC9u5HB0eSWyUgM7fwDcI1H8vm0iqyyU0uSgotb1yh02hSqHTInGuj44pjbHiaV7WbD28dWkW3fuKgL0xUgFjUY1OsEjdjdYwxQKCalVVuy5dD8/s320/Essential+Madeira.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
An interview with Gerald Luckhurst about his work on Madeira by Vitor Sousa<br />
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</div>My new book 'The Gardens of Madeira' has finally reached the bookstores.<br />
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Here is a link to the publishers <a href="http://www.franceslincoln.com/en/C/0/Book/2058/The_Gardens_of_Madeira.html">Blurb</a>.<br />
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If you use the link to the right you can buy the book at Amazon with a 50% discount.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-88584702028732683732010-06-26T14:41:00.001-07:002010-06-28T15:14:09.112-07:00Friends of Monserrate<a href="http://amigosdemonserrate.com/"><img style="WIDTH: 239px; HEIGHT: 197px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487201779608202450" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1mxI344ya9Rp9SFZgj-V9uTtXWdAj8eAGgKkaxWIFlxATAUVn-PD5L0UdrNnQCdVaEeD-6KYYEGlhJj_hhiuitFQYububv2dTDjwVvm0q5v5UeG9dAQtmVFfDTXRnrLZkktP-h1Ir6yU/s400/amigos+de+monserrate.jpg" /></a><br /><div>The Friends of Monserrate have a new website. You can find it <a href="http://amigosdemonserrate.com/en">here</a> </div><div></div><div><a href="http://amigosdemonserrate.com/">Amigos de Monserrate </a>/ <a href="http://amigosdemonserrate.com/en">Friends of Monserrate</a></div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-61448126720667493862010-06-26T03:07:00.000-07:002010-06-26T03:46:15.024-07:00Tigridia pavonia<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNg01Dmygcq-TbZpsm_Nwjavdrbmuq6LR1SvdR9hSzL9mMRsQRXivssPHSgw5IFK1fXX9WQBvo92I_DX6NoN9pPt8d7V2ANgs57mCydAdtM_j7d9m7Mp_-FIzPzh0Wb9FRcO57jWIhyxk/s1600/Curtis+532.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 224px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487022028150993186" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNg01Dmygcq-TbZpsm_Nwjavdrbmuq6LR1SvdR9hSzL9mMRsQRXivssPHSgw5IFK1fXX9WQBvo92I_DX6NoN9pPt8d7V2ANgs57mCydAdtM_j7d9m7Mp_-FIzPzh0Wb9FRcO57jWIhyxk/s400/Curtis+532.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div><div>Curtis Botanical magazine </div><div>Vol. 15 (1801)</div><div> </div><div>[532]</div><div><br />Ferraria Tigridia. Mexican Ferraria, or Tiger-flower.<br />Class and Order.<br />MONADELPHIA TRIANDRIA.<br />Generic Character.<br />Spatha 2-phylla. Cal. o. Petala 6. 3-externis latioribus. Stylus 1. Caps. 3-loculari infera.<br />Specific Characler and Synonyms.<br />FERRARIA Tigridia ; foliis plicatis, corollis lato-urceolatis:<br />laciniis interioribus depresso-intersectis.<br />FERRARIA pavonia : caule simplici flexuoso, foliis equi-<br />tantibus ensiformibus nervosis, petalis planis :<br />interioribus duplo brevioribus panduriformibus.<br />Spec. PI. edit, Willdenow, v. 3. p. 581.<br />FERRARIA pavonia. Linn. Suppl. 407. Cav. Diff. p. 343.<br />t. 189. Larmarck Encyclop. v. 2. p. 453. 2.<br />TIGRIDIA Juffieu. Gen. p. 57.<br />MORAEA pavonia. Thunb. Monea 14, 20.<br />OCOLOXOCHITL seu flore tigris. Hern. nov. PI. Amer.<br />Hist. tab. 276. Gerard, emac. 122. 2. Encyc lop. Brit. t. 350.<br />TIGRIDIS flos an Dracunculi species? Lob. Obs. 59. Icon.<br />111. Dod. pempt. 3. p. 421. Swertii Floril. 2.<br />t. 31. fig. 2. J. Bauh. 2. p. 684. Raii Hist.<br />1165. J. Theod. de Bryt, Florileg. nov. t. 111.<br /><br /><br />Of all the above authors, no one had seen the living plant except Hernandez, who was sent to Mexico as a Physician, by Philip II. King of Spain; and his figure, though only a small wooden cut, is more botanically correct than any of the others, not excepting that of Cavanilles, We are informed by him that it grew wild about Mexico, and was much cultivated for its excessive beauty and for the medicinal virtues of its root; being, as he terms it, " a frigefacient in fevers, and " also a promoter of fecundity in women." Both Hernandez and M. De Brancion, from whom Lobel derived his knowledge of the plant, observe that the root is esculent. All the other old authors appear to have borrowed what they have said from these two sources, except perhaps De Bry, who says he received it (probably meaning the drawing) from Caspar Bauhin. The author of this figure, though it was published before the Rome edition of the Mexican history, appears to have had access to the drawing of Hernandez, as the form of the flower is the same, only four roots are crowded together. The more modern authors seem to have made their descriptions and figures from no other authority except a dried specimen in the possession of Jussieu. That of Mutis, cited by the younger Linnaeus, we have not seen, and has not, we believe, been as yet published.<br />For the possession of this superb flower, this country, and perhaps Europe, is indebted to Ellis Hodgson, Esq. of Everton, near Liverpool, with whom it flowered and produced ripe seeds about five years ago. From this gentleman, seeds were communicated to Messrs. Grimwood and Wykes, and by them it has been dispersed among other Nurserymen. There is little fear but that it will soon become very common, as it flowers freely, produces seeds in abundance, and maybe likewise increased by offsets from the roots. It has no scent, but in splendid beauty it appears to us, at least when assifted by rarity and singularity, to surpass every competitor; we lament that this too affords our fair countrywomen another lesson, how extremely fugacious is this loveliness of form; born to display its' glory but for a few hours, it literally melts away.<br />By the alteration made by Willdenow in the generic character of Ferraria, this may be included; but the trivial name pavonia, injudiciously adopted from a supposed resemblance to the Iris pavonia, figured by Jacquin (not the Iris pavonia of the Botanical Magazine) is totally inadmissible, the colours being in no respect similar to those of the peacock ; we have, therefore, as nearly as could be done in one word, restored the original name. We have an additional motive to do so from the confederation, that should it be hereafter thought necessary to make it a distinct genus from Ferraria, the name of Tigridia, already applied by Jussieu, would undoubtedly be given it.<br />Disc. Root, a tunicated bulb, producing from one to four stems about a foot and half high, somewhat flexuose, round, jointed, smooth, bearing at each joint a plicated oblong-lanceolate leaf from a sheathing petiole the length of the internode, and at the summit an involucrum, apparently confiding of two lanceolate, ancipital, conduplicate, nearly equal valves, of which the exterior is in fact the common spathe or involucre, and embraces the interior with its contents ; the interior valve, which is exactly opposed to the outer one, is the proper spathe of the first flower and embraces it, together with the spathes and flowers that are to come in succession ; the spathe of the second flower is opposed to that of the first, and placed between it and the pedicel of the first flower; and so of the rest, every spathe being opposed to the one of the preceding flower and embraced by it. These spathes are similar in shape, but diminish progressively and become more membranaceous. Corolla, broad-urceolate (but this could not be expressed by the drawing in a front-view of the flower) divided into six segments, of which the three outer are urceolate at the base, expanded above, and reflected at the point; the three inner ones smaller by half, biformed, singularly divided into a lower hastate and an upper ovate division by a depressed intersection ; the upper division is of the richest scarlet imaginable, variegated by a bright golden yellow. Filament, a cuniculated or piped triquetral column. Anthers, sessile, erect, bearing their pollen on the outside, conniving at the point, diverging below to admit the exit of the stigmas. Germen, obtusely trigonal, three-celled. Style, the length of the filamental column, through the hollow of which it pafles. Stigmas, three, filiform, bifid. Capsule, oblong, obtufely trigonal, three-celled. Seeds, in double rows in each cell and round.<br />It is a native of Mexico and Peru, is properly a greenhouse plant, and succeeds best in light mould, seedlings will flower the second year. It is best to take up the bulbs the latter end of September or October, and to keep them out of the ground till the Spring*.<br />* In every part of this paper, we have been very much assisted by the liberal communications of John Bellendin Gawler, Esq.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div><br /><strong>Tigridia pavonia</strong> (L.f.) DC. in P.J.Redouté, Liliac. 1: t. 6 (1802). </div><div>Mexico to El Salvador</div><div></div><div>Iridaceae </div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-46719626292765572952010-06-25T11:31:00.000-07:002010-06-25T11:56:20.797-07:00General Robert Craufurd<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUgvPZrlGs3EpBCNLjEk2rMh_tFTLHl4sMuvtaUEXKU9VQOqv50gM8DTIaGPO4E-V1_CkU-SsrSXl-OV6D0ZdzlncW7xo020gz1Sz4jIMvSpjOo6hM99YRRLlVVhMQBYhMDa1CuGnCe0/s1600/General+Craufurd.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 257px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5486786085782866962" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRUgvPZrlGs3EpBCNLjEk2rMh_tFTLHl4sMuvtaUEXKU9VQOqv50gM8DTIaGPO4E-V1_CkU-SsrSXl-OV6D0ZdzlncW7xo020gz1Sz4jIMvSpjOo6hM99YRRLlVVhMQBYhMDa1CuGnCe0/s400/General+Craufurd.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Major-General Robert Craufurd (5 May 1764 – 23 January 1812) arrived in Lisbon just a few days before Lord Byron in 1809. On 10th July Byron and Hobhouse watch the General commanding his troops in a military parade.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-64815050553781073162010-06-20T01:08:00.000-07:002010-06-20T01:10:32.869-07:00Cintra Pinturesca: Monserate 1838[p.79]<br /><br />Descendo do alto de Penha-verde deixamos á esquerda huma fonte antiga , e logo mais adiante a estrada fórma hum estreito por cujo motivo pozerão os Arabes ao sitio o nome de Gibraltar , e a poucos passos se biparte a estrada. Seguindo-se a da direita se vai dar á ribeira de Gallamares (de que fallaremos quando tratarmos de villa de Collares) em cuja proximidade está a quinta de S. Bento , e as ruinas de huma antiga casa acastellada , que ainda conserva duas torres , pertencente á casa dos Condes de Soure. Continuando a mesma estrada que tinhamos seguido , esta logo adiante se reparte em tres caminhos. A' direita fica o que conduz ás ruinas e quinta de Monserate; o centro he a estrada real de Collares , a qual por baixo de huma continuada sombra de arvoredo , tendo passado pela quinta da Bellavista, pertencente á casa de Cadaval, a da Agua Ferrea , e sitio da Ugaria, nos leva áquella aprazivel e viçosa villa : á esquerda, subindo para o centro da serra em direcção ao Oeste , vamos ter ao convento de Santa Cruz da Serra.<br /><br />Logo adiante da quinta de Penha-verde fica o sitio de Monserate , assim chamado , de huma Ermida da invocação de Nossa Senhora de Monserate , que no anno de 1540 edificou hum Clerigo chamado Gaspar Preto mandando de Roma vir a imagem de alabastro, da Senhora.<br /><br />Aqui em hum pequeno monte despegado , que se avança como atalaya do resto das ondulações da Serra , estão as ruinas de huma casa de campo , imitando hum castello antigo. Foi edificada esta casa por hum Inglez chamado Bekfort , inda ha poucos annos , de sorte que por vicio de construccão e não pela sua muita antiguidade está em ruinas. Qual flor requeimada por vento pestifero na viçosa idade da sua vegetação, ainda nestas estragadas ruinas sobresahe a formosura e brilho do seu tempo de gloria. [p.80] Huma bella lameda de arvores nos conduz á casa cercada de huma gradaria de ferro de tres pés de altura, cingindo-lhe as paredes cedros qne sombreando-a , lhe não roubão (pela boa disposição em que estão collocados) os lindos pontos de optica que disfructa , tanto para o lado da serra de que he dominada, como para a parte do mar e valle de Collares. A primeira torre era destinada para os quartos de cama, seguindo-se em baixo casa de jantar etc.; a outra torre consistia em huma bella salla de Musica deforma redonda , cornmunicando com outras , tudo no melhor gosto e distribuição. Tinha a casa duas entradas principaes , que se dirigiào a hum vestibulo em octagono, que partia para os differentes ramos do edificio.<br /><br />Os aposentos para os creados , cocheira , e cavalharices , formão outro corpo de edificio ao lado do caminho que conduz á casa. Os apriscos , abegoaria , e casa de caseiro são feitas com igual esmero de gosto , buscando a arte meios de embellezamento na sua simples e rustica architectura. Consistia a quinta de hum bello bosque de antigos carvalhos que vinhão terminar junto á casa em hum pomar de larangeiras e tangerinas. Na encosta sobranceira ao valle onde está assentado este pomar se vê huma cascata de enormes calháos que para alli forão conduzidos expressamente , esforçando-se por este modo com tanto trabalho o artificio humano em imitar a simplicidade das bellezas da natureza, [p.81] sempre magestosa e bella nas obras da sua creação , toma esta repreza as aguas que no inverno, e principios da primavera descem do alto da serra, e formão uma cataracta que se despenha por um leito pedregoso, que forma a parte mais baixa do valle desta mata.<br /><br />Tal he o sitio encantador de Monserrate! Se quereis embriagar a vossa alma de uma agradavel melancolia , vinde passar alguns momentos a estas ruinas, ou quando o sol rompendo por entre as nevoas que coroão os alcantilados montes faz chorar as arvores lagrimas crystalinas , saudosas dos mysterios da noite , ou quando mergulhando-se no Occeano traz essa hora do crepusculo doces meditações.<br /><br />Evós , damas , acudi tambem ; não receeis genios malfazejos , nem vos assustem as suas torres e recortadas ameias, que esta estancia foi desde o seu principio destinada a prazeres. Lamentai com tudo que esta salla animada outra-ora pela suave melodia da musica , seja agora muda e silenciosa , que esse pavimento sobre o qual se deitão hoje essas ovelhas que vos não excedem em candura, não seja ao de leve roçado pelos vossos pés mimosos, que esse chão cuberto de pedras que desabão do arruinado tecto, não seja forrado de aveludado tapete. Pedi porém que alguma mão bemfeitora restitua esta casa á sua primeira instituição, isto he, a povôe de novos folgares, ou antes pedi que a mão do homem , mais destruidora que o tempo , não derrube [p. 82] esse resto de arvores que escaparão aos sacrilegos golpes do machado, não nivelle com a terra esses mesmos fragmentos do edificio que ainda hoje formão o encanto destes sitios.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-34085629995998635072010-06-18T12:06:00.000-07:002010-06-18T12:09:58.330-07:00Portugal and Gallicia, with a review of the social and political state of the Basque provincesPortugal and Gallicia, with a review of the social and political state of the Basque provinces <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Rd0DAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-PT&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0"></a><br />Henry John G. Herbert (3rd earl of Carnarvon.)<br /><br />1836<br /><br />pp. 18 - 19<br /><br />We rode on to Montserrat, the remains of a villa, built by Mr. Beckford many years ago. The ruinous state of that fairy dwelling was noticed by Lord Byron in 1809, and since that time it has become still more desolate. The roof, then entire, has since very much fallen in, and the walls are in many parts a heap of ruins. The entrance opens into an octagonal hall, terminated by a circular apartment, which looks over a lengthened flat to the distant breakers. There is also the shell remaining of a fine apartment, perhaps the library, which commands as rich a view of forest scenery as can well be conceived. The general effect of the exterior is good, except the high slanting roofs, which, though in correct taste, are somewhat unpleasing. Further on we saw the ruins of a rambling house, to which a dark story is attached; for a young man is there said to have murdered his elder brother under circumstances of peculiar horror.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-72159713402952515462010-06-03T06:02:00.001-07:002010-06-03T06:05:50.412-07:00Sir John Charles Robinson (1824-1913)<a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/periods_styles/features/history/staff_obituaries/art/robinson/index.html"><img style="WIDTH: 208px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478532128410296466" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFj2LRIIElnf6WfIYhzHwPAWrnWfSlqzFVg95nWcBTOdYD2Df1fErnfylR0eoV6cdX-vzatC9EIH3oemIOfI3x8ZtY5v8RVVyW-EAdR9YNbg11oc1gFcTdfj1SM3DxmHG9t_8EExuXMPw/s400/53467-large.jpg" /></a><br /><div>Sir John Charles Robinson fromThe Times, 11 April 1913<br />We regret to announce that Sir John Charles Robinson, CB, FSA, died yesterday at his residence, Newton Manor, Swanage. He had reached the great age of 88, having been born in Nottingham in December 1824, but until very recently he was as active as ever in the interest which he displayed in questions concerning the art of the past and in those antiquarian subjects to which he had devoted the greater part of his long life.<br /><a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/images/image/53467-popup.html"></a><br />He was trained in Paris as an artist and on his return he exhibited more than once at the Royal Academy; but it was rather as an organizer, teacher and collector that he made his mark. For some five years he was headmaster of the Art School at Hanley and his influence soon made itself felt in Mintons and other porcelain factories. He was one of the young men who took up with great zeal that movement inaugurated by Prince Albert, about the time of the first Great Exhibitions, for establishing a general system of art education in England and when the South Kensington Museum was founded in 1852 he was made first superintendent of the art collections. This post he held for 17 years and it is to him more than anyone that the provincial museums owe the system of circulating works of art and ancient craftsmanship from the national stores. More than this, Mr Robinson, who had a natural flair for works of art of every description and who was alive to the beauty of the then neglected productions of the Italian Renaissance, spent many seasons in travelling for the Museum in Italy and Spain. With the small funds at his disposal he was able to acquire at what we should now consider a paltry price a vast number of those works in marble, bronze, majolica and terracotta which quickly gave South Kensington a unique position among the museums of Europe. Mr Robinson found it possible, with the expenditure of a few thousands or even hundreds of pounds annually, to lay up a store for the nation such as is now unattainable at any price; a store which, if we could image it coming into the market today, would realize 50 or 100 times what he gave for it. He, for example, influenced Mr Gladstone and obtained a grant for the purchase of the best objects in the Gigli-Campana collection. Unfortunately he came in the end to disagree with some of the chiefs of the Museum, the grounds of the dispute being such as it is quite unnecessary to enter upon here, and in 1869 he resigned his connection with the Museum, retiring with a pension.<br />Three years before, in conjunction with the celebrated Italian diplomatist and writer, the Marquis D'Azeglio and a few other friends, he founded the Fine Arts Club which afterwards developed into the Burlington and for many years acted as it honorary secretary. Into this little club were gathered the principal connoisseurs and collectors of the day such as Mr C S Bale, Sir William Drake, Mr Mitchell, Mr Malcolm of Poltalloch and others; and through his association with them Mr Robinson rapidly obtained an important position as the advisor of those who wished to acquire fine collections. His principal achievements in this way were on behalf of Mr Malcolm, many of whose splendid ancient drawings, now in the British Museum, had been bought by Mr Robinson at the Woodburn and other sales; and the late Sir Francis Cook of Richmond, whose well-known collection of old pictures was brought together under the same advice. It is noteworthy that this collection is especially strong in Spanish pictures and that Mr Robinson stood at that time almost alone among English connoisseurs as a frequent traveller to Spain for art purposes. As time went on he bought a good deal for himself and at one time was the owner of an important collection of Spanish, Italian and Dutch pictures, of Italian marbles, medals and bronzes and of drawings by old masters. He was also active, long after his official connection with the public museums had ceased, in organizing funds for the purchase of works of art for the nation. The chief instance of this was at the time of the famous Fountaine sale (1884) when he, by letter to 'The Times' and in other ways, stirred up public opinion in favour of acquiring some of that matchless store of majolica, Limoges enamels and Palissy ware, and at the time of the sale he was in command of a considerable sum of money for this purpose which he expended very judiciously.<br />In 1882 Mr Robinson once more entered the service of the Crown, being in that year appointed Surveyor of the Queen's pictures; a post which he held for nearly 20 years till the death of Queen Victoria. But whether the fault lay with the Queen herself, who did not like changes and alterations in the Royal possessions, or whether Mr Robinson wanted energy in this matter, it cannot be said that anything was done during this period to put the pictures in order or to make the collections more popular. That was reserved for the next reign and for the next Surveyor, Mr Lionel Cust. In regard to modern art Mr Robinson, who was himself an etcher of ability, was instrumental with his friend Sir F Seymour Haden, in founding the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers of which he became an honorary member. He was in high favour with the Empress Frederick and gave her valuable help in forming the rather remarkable collection which she and her husband brought together at Cronberg. Many other crowned heads appreciated Mr Robinson's services. At home he was made a Knight in 1887, a CB in 1901 and he was the holder of high orders from the Sovereigns of Belgium, Spain and Portugal.His publications were very numerous and include several of the official catalogues issued by South Kensington, the descriptive catalogue of the Raphael and Michael Angelo drawings at Oxford, several private catalogues and a multitude of articles in the magazines and art periodicals, together with many letters to the 'The Times'. The articles and letters were often either directly controversial or provocative of controversy, for it must be admitted that Sir J C Robinson had a way of maintaining his own sometimes paradoxical opinions about various works of art in a manner which did not always approve itself to other connoisseurs. Still, though one may disagree with him on many questions of connoisseurship, it cannot be denied that in the middle of the last century he did a really great public service and that our unrivalled collections at South Kensington could never have been what they are had the Museum not been served by a man so energetic, shrewd and clever as he was.He married, in 1852, the daughter of Alderman Newton of Norwich; this lady died recently. One of his sons is Mr Charles Newton Robinson and another is Mr Gerald Robinson, the mezzotint engraver. For many years he lived in Harley Street, but moved some years ago to the beautiful old house at Swanage where he died.</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-42793286297813836142010-06-03T03:23:00.000-07:002010-06-03T03:24:44.250-07:00Saccolabium blumei majus<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhsFIAbrSwW21bVT1K8bhq6JVNK3G1xnoNe7prervu0Ft9PHvZWHE5uwnspoXmXsEtAx4UyF9t4gDZM_SCOvMAUW-foZf6EI_10MIl4S9lKVID47knkZZfT0YkU3EMgZuf4NBlfKeqOE/s1600/Saccolabium+blumei+majus.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 262px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478491256698179874" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfhsFIAbrSwW21bVT1K8bhq6JVNK3G1xnoNe7prervu0Ft9PHvZWHE5uwnspoXmXsEtAx4UyF9t4gDZM_SCOvMAUW-foZf6EI_10MIl4S9lKVID47knkZZfT0YkU3EMgZuf4NBlfKeqOE/s400/Saccolabium+blumei+majus.jpg" /></a><br /><div></div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-67891208195804170162010-06-02T16:03:00.000-07:002010-06-02T16:10:08.851-07:00Picture towns of EuropeOne of the chief charms of Cintra consists in the innumerable beautiful walks and drives that bring fresh interest to each day spent there. Most popular of these is the drive of a few miles to the gardens of Monserrate, that are said to be unequaled in the world. Nowhere but in the unique climate of Portugal can grow in perfection the plants and trees of the tropics and of the temperate zone as well, so in the century since Beckford ransacked the world to find specimens for these gardens, which he laid out at fabulous cost, the trees and vines, and shrubs and flowers he planted there have developed into wonderful beauty. The property is now owned by the estate of Sir Frederick Cook, who spares no money to keep and increase the splendor of the place. There are palms and bamboos; oaks and evergreens; orchids and roses; vines that are perfect sheets of strange, intense color; uncanny-looking flowers lifting their blossom of flame or lavender straight from the earth; queer trees with long, pendulous blooms of scarlet; ponds where pink and blue lilies grow; Roman benches whence are views of mountains and the passing ships at sea; and in the midst the beautiful Moorish-like house where Sir Frederick lives.<br /><br />OSBORNE, ALBERT B., <em>Picture Towns of Europe,</em> New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Company, 1912, <em>p. 95</em>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-62681258949481772892010-04-09T04:49:00.000-07:002010-04-09T04:50:34.433-07:00Cinco artistas em Cintra<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn21T8zNsy5yh2S8t7Oy3npPzQ4OQo_i-F5jD3XjSb2tFEf6DVGBCBYpjDCXP8l3EA8sXp-AxVS6mIyDoj1qkwYX1-A_jDq1iwKbzV9ZMHxyyXvO29yPHOdK6j6sG10xHSpdMdDc7py4/s1600/e-3396-p_0001_t24-C-R0075.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 308px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458103587376314642" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirn21T8zNsy5yh2S8t7Oy3npPzQ4OQo_i-F5jD3XjSb2tFEf6DVGBCBYpjDCXP8l3EA8sXp-AxVS6mIyDoj1qkwYX1-A_jDq1iwKbzV9ZMHxyyXvO29yPHOdK6j6sG10xHSpdMdDc7py4/s400/e-3396-p_0001_t24-C-R0075.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br />CRISTINO, João, 1829-1877Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-33289791409618848222010-04-06T11:57:00.000-07:002010-04-06T12:04:27.631-07:00Camellia japonica 'Zoraide Vanzi'First listed by E.G. Henderson & Son, 1866, Catalogue p.44<br /><br />Blush white with very picturesque rosy red bars and flakes; outer petals large, rounded, rose-like and even; a flower of great substance, full to the centre.<br /><br />Stefano Pagliai Catalogue, 1867, p.74;<br />New blush, striped and blotched carmine, extra fine substancew.<br /><br />Veitch Nursery Catalogue, 1867;<br /><br />Henderson, E.G., nursery Catalogue, 1867: White flushed pink, highly speckled and splashed carmine.<br /><br />Originated in Italy by Franchetti, Florence.<br /><br />No illustration listed.<br /><br />Information from Web Camellia Register.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-26562563704648661082010-03-22T12:58:00.000-07:002010-03-22T13:02:16.793-07:00A QUINTA DE MONSERRATE - Horas Românticas<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGTacO83674JS_fBFchXYpE6R7VB5SgE6zH9kU3IDZisGt7KCPqtXGgDtdSe_PXVxRK0ViNexo2TOyAD5O8ptPDuAIrSN9z34PEEqpYMes4pEX8qYSSqpWrMzRAxZTBh0u0ZXdt50r3c/s1600-h/Grav2270.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 276px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451550685632902306" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggGTacO83674JS_fBFchXYpE6R7VB5SgE6zH9kU3IDZisGt7KCPqtXGgDtdSe_PXVxRK0ViNexo2TOyAD5O8ptPDuAIrSN9z34PEEqpYMes4pEX8qYSSqpWrMzRAxZTBh0u0ZXdt50r3c/s400/Grav2270.jpg" /></a><br /><div><a href="http://www.csarmento.uminho.pt/ndat_261.asp"><img style="WIDTH: 353px; HEIGHT: 72px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451550599174031522" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhQu-G7HNMfFWddRcLzEmkj-KJ4qAY8aQL4oGpRbIyCfqRNaVSYtd-nr8gnjKKWT4Bxn-rQ4W6QituYOYLVi5prcf20WoqM2SLdzvJmq7IAF-eVcuHHm_MrUE69CS0QZCOmHVaqVLYgjs/s400/img_logo_top.gif" /></a><br /><br /><div><br />Nº de Registo: 2270<br />Assunto: Monserrate, Quinta de<br />Descrição: Vista de uma perspectiva da Quinta de Monserrate.<br />Gravador: Isaías Nenton<br />Autor: J. Pedrozo<br />Editor: Horas Românticas<br />Inscrição: A QUINTA DE MONSERRATE / DES. DE J. NENTON<br />Processo/Técnica: N/identificado<br />Cor: Negro<br />Estado de Conservação: Bom</div></div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-19706784337051087542010-03-21T14:51:00.001-07:002010-03-21T14:51:32.005-07:00More on Portuguese CamelliasEnsaio sobre a camellia<br /><br />Em Portugal data apenas do fim do 1.º quartel d’este seculo a introducção da Camellia, e só ha pouco mais de 25 annos, é que principiaram a propagar-se por as provincias as variedades dobradas e plenas, e talvez só ha doze annos é que se presta verdadeira attenção a esta cultura.<br /><br />A Camellia vive ao ar livre em quasi todo o littoral atlantico e mediterraneo de França e em alguns pontos privilegiados do interior, como Angers, o valle do Loire, o coração e jardim de França. Se o Lago-maior, no Piemonte, o Milanez, o Florentino, Roma, Veneza e especialmente Napoles dispensam agazalhos do inverno para a Camellia pela razão geral da proximidade do mar, em Portugal vive bem ao ar livre quasi por toda a parte, tanto no littoral, como no interior das provincias do norte, e se nas do sul não vegeta egualmente, deve attribuir-se, no meu entender, ao demasiado calor do verão em algumas paragens e à exposição quente, e natureza calcarea dos terrenos, e aguas com que os regam, porque ahi mesmo, logo que lhe procurem situações frescas e arrejadas, e terrenos apropriadas, vive opulenta como em Cintra, abandonada, sem cultura e dispersa por a matta do palacio real da penna, como no seu estado primativo no paiz natural.<br /><br />N. P. de Mendonça Falcão<br /><br />Jornal de Horticultura Pratica, Vol. III, pp.51-54Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-62678567269077577392010-03-21T12:20:00.001-07:002010-03-21T12:20:42.253-07:00Origin of Portuguese CamelliasJornal de Horticultura Prática Vol. II, 1871 p. 120.<br /><br />Lançando agora um volver d’olhos sobre o estado de florescencia d’este genero no nosso paiz, não podemos deixar de nos congratularmos, porque as variedades que se cultivam já sobem a algumas centenas e com quanto a maior parte sejam de origem estrangeira, ha muitas que são nascida em Portugal e por tanto chamarlhes.hemos «portuguezas».<br /><br />Estas são, na maior parte, de sementeiras feitas no Porto e seus suburbios por pessoas apaixonadas d’este bello genero. Entre os mais felizes devemos mencionar os snrs.: Roberto Wan-Zeller, visconde de Villar Allen, conselheiro Camilo Aureliano da Silva e Sousa, e José Marques Loureiro.<br /><br />O ultimo que se acaba de lêr deveria talvez ser à frente dos outros, mas de proposito o deixamos para o fim para lhe consagramos duas linhas de louvor, porque n’esta especialidade, como em muitas outras, tem prestado verdadeiro serviços à horticultura.<br /><br />Amador de coração, dotado de inextinguivel paixão pelas Camellias, dedicou-se de ha muito à sua cultura e pouco e pouco foi colleccionando as novidades de maneira que possue hoje inquestionavelmente a melhor collecção de Portugal. Para chegar a este resultado, não se limita a fazer annualmente importação de um certo numero d’ellas. Organisa abundantes sementeiras, de onde obtem sempre variedades bellissimas e é ahi que toma sua origem um bom numero das Camellias portuguezas, que hoje adornam os nossos jardins e que muitas pessoas pensam ser estrangeiras.<br /><br />Oliveira JuniorGerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-63623724960779055962010-03-21T11:54:00.000-07:002010-03-21T11:57:43.605-07:00Camellia Duarte de Oliveira<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcyoJROF-NFWo2qN_HK6Z_L0gWCFt_Y7kpnViwJsoS_ikLZAD8QvIL1DnwyGP01GxLZ2IZOIc393UJSoleqX0FjN0RrDbwXGOyVLStXKkuIUSqqizrMHcyLnNY3ozmvKx12XGLbbCz0E/s1600-h/W_0002_000012+Camellia+Duarte+de+Oliveira.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 318px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5451162818240772258" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVcyoJROF-NFWo2qN_HK6Z_L0gWCFt_Y7kpnViwJsoS_ikLZAD8QvIL1DnwyGP01GxLZ2IZOIc393UJSoleqX0FjN0RrDbwXGOyVLStXKkuIUSqqizrMHcyLnNY3ozmvKx12XGLbbCz0E/s400/W_0002_000012+Camellia+Duarte+de+Oliveira.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Jornal de Horticultura Pratica,<br />1871, Vol. II, pp. 2-3.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-34486673375679442172010-03-20T02:45:00.000-07:002010-03-20T02:46:56.053-07:00Camellias 1859<strong>Le Bon jardinier: almanach horticole pour l'année 1859.</strong><br /><br />p. 956<br /><br />Nous terminerons ces courts préceptes par quelques observations sur le nombre immense de variétés de Camellias qui figurent sur les catalogues de nos horticulteurs. Il serait à désirer qu'on pût établir une synonymie exacte; car beaucoup de variétés complètement semblables y portent des noms différents. Ainsi, entre autres, le Camellia cruciata s'appelle des noms de Varischi, Général Zucchi, etc.; le Saccoï nova répond à ceux de Halfida, Saccoï prima, Augustina superba; L’Elata de Rollisson à ceux de Crimson perfection et d’Elata de Cunningham, etc. Du reste, à moins d'avoir sous les yeux une collection complète, ce travail est presque impossible ; car les renseignements qu'on reçoit de divers pays sur une même variété sont complètement différents, les conditions de climat et de sol ayant nécessairement une influence sur la forme et le coloris des fleurs. Les semeurs, de leur côté, devraient apporter la plus grande réserve dans la mise au commerce d'une variété nouvelle ; ils devraient juger consciencieusement si elle est assez dissemblable de telle ou telle autre pour obtenir les honneurs du baptême; et, afin de prendre un exemple, le C. Normanii, charmante plante du reste, est-elle tellement différente du Saccoï nova qu'il ait fallu l'ériger en variété nouvelle? Le C. Roberti, connu aussi sous le nom de lo Schiavone, n'est-il pas à peu près semblable au C. Rubini, lequel est bien proche parent du C. Verschaffeltii? Ces variétés sont maintenant acceptées et figurent dans toutes les collections, et nous ne les avons signalées que comme avertissement aux habiles et heureux semeurs de tous pays, qui pourraient se laisser entraîner dans cette voie si séduisante de créer des variétés nouvelles, et de juger leurs gains avec une partialité toute paternelle.<br />Depuis une dizaine d'années, les semis se sont tellement multipliés, et les gains obtenus sont si nombreux, qu'une belle collection de Camellias, bien qu'épurée avec soin et sévérité, se composera facilement de plus de deux cents variétés. Nous allons décrire les plus remarquables, tant parmi les anciennes que parmi les nouvelles, et indiquer ensuite les espèces d'un mérite un peu moindre, et que cependant un amateur véritable doit posséder 1.<br />Camellia abbate Branzini, imbrication parfaite ; pétales arrondis et échancrés, carmin foncé, tranché par une bordure d'un bleu violacé.<br /> C. alba imbricata (Low), très grand, blanc pur, imbriqué.<br /> C. alba plena, blanc pur, imbriqué, une des plus anciennes et des plus belles variétés.<br />C. Alexina (Low), blanc bien panaché et strié de rose, imbriqué.<br />C. Amadryas di Cusano, imbriqué, d'un beau rouge à pointes blanches.<br />C. Antonietta Lomellini, imbriqué, rouge ponceau vif à la circonférence, plus clair au centre, pétales en coquille et très nombreux.<br />C. archiduchessa Augusta (Corsi),cramoisi foncé, bande blanche au centre de chaque pétale, reflets d'un bleu violacé pendant la deuxième période de la floraison.<br />C. avvenire, fleur énorme, imbriquée, rose tendre brillant, légèrement bordée de blanc, stries blanches.<br />G. bella di Firenze*, rose carmin, imbriqué, veiné et rubané de blanc.<br />C. bella Toscana, forme de l’incarnata, rouge vif, centre plus clair, parfois liseré et tacheté de blanc.<br />C. belle Jeannette, rose cuivré, bande blanche sur le milieu des pétales, grande fleur imbriquée.<br />C. Senneyi (Boll), imbriqué, cramoisi vif, légèrement ligné de blanc, centre plus clair.<br />C. candidissima, imbriqué, blanc pur.<br />C. Candor ("Herbert], imbriqué, large fleur, blanc pur.<br />C. Caroline Smith, imbriqué, d'un rose très-tendre, rubané de blanc.<br />C. Chandeleri elegans, rose tendre, anémoniforme, parfois maculé de blanc.<br />C. cariophylloides (Low), blanc rosé, tigré de rouge.<br />C. Castagnola, imbriqué, rose vif; tous les pétales ornés d'une large bande blanche.<br />C. Catherine Longhi, d'un beau carmin, rubané de blanc, imbriqué.<br />C. centifolia (Low), rouge cramoisi, maculé de blanc, imbriqué.<br />C. comte de Paris, blanc rosé, veiné et rubané de carmin.<br />C. comtesse Balbani, grande fleur, rouge foncé, à bandes régulières blanches et roses.<br />(1) Les horticulteurs qui s'occupent spécialement de la culture du Camellia consulteront avec avantage les deux ouvrages de l'abbé Berlèze :<br />Monographie du genre Camellia, culture, description et classification. 1 vol. in-8, de 310 pag. et 7 pl. Prix : 5 fr.<br />Iconographie du genre Camellia. 3 magnifiques vol. in-folio, texte sur velin et 300 belles gravures coloriées. Prix : 375 fr.<br /><br /><br />p.958<br /><br />Camellia comtesse d’Ellesmere (Jackson), blanc carné, strié incarnat, imbriqué.<br />C. comtesse Massiani, imbriqué, d'un blanc ligné et macd de rose.<br />C. comtesse Nencini, imbriqué, blanc carné, strié de roa carmin, tardive.<br />C. comtesse Ottolini, imbriqué, rouge saumoné, centre pli clair, lavé et veiné de blanc.<br />C. countess of Orkney, imbriqué, blanc crème, veiné et stri de rose.<br />C. cruciata, imbriqué, carmin rubané de blanc.<br />C. Damiana novella (Damien, V. CorsiJ, imbriqué, Kwp pourpre, centre carmin clair.<br />C. Daviesi, anémoniforme, rouge foncé; fleur dnnslegan de celle du Grenadier.<br />C. de la Reine (Varemberg), imbriqué; fleur énorme, bUw pur strié de rose.<br />C. Donkelaeri, semi-double, rouge, maculé de blanc.<br />C. Dride, imbriqué, rose agate, strié de blanc, centre et circonférence un peu plus foncés.<br />C. duc de Bretagne, imbriqué, rose très vif.<br />C. duchesse de Montpensier, imbriqué, très plein, blancslrit de rose.<br />C. duchesse dOrlêans, imbriqué, blanc légèrement rosé, strié de carmin, perd facilement ses boutons.<br />C. Elisabetta Herbert " (Sloane), imbriqué, rouge vif, centre rose pâle.<br />C. emperor ("Davies), pœoniforme, rose brique.<br />C. exquisita (Low), petites fleurs renonculiformes, d'un rose très-vif.<br />C. Faustina (Lechi), rouge ligné et tacheté de blanc, parfo» imbriqué.<br />C. Feastii, imbriqué, blanc strié de rose.<br />C. pmbriata, blanc pur, imbriqué, les pétales finement dentelés, superbe, mais un peu délicat.<br />C. général Lafayettc, rose tendre, largement rubané deMa»c> imbriqué.<br />C. George Washington, imbriqué, blanc jaunâtre, quelque fois tacheté de rose.<br />C. Giardino Franchetti, blanc nuancé couleur de chaire et strié de rose carmin, pétales très larges. Selon toute vraisemblance, accident du C. Targioni fixé par la greffe.<br />C. Giovacchino Rossini, imbriqué, carmin rayé et tacheté de blanc jaunâtre, l'extrémité des pétales est marginée de blanc pur.<br />C. gloria dell’ isole Borromeo, imbriqué, d'un rose vif ligne de blanc.<br />C. grandis (Low), imbriqué, rose cramoisi vif. „,<br />C. mivetia, très grande fleur bien imbriquée et d'un rougi brillant.<br />C. Hendersoni, imbriqué, d'un rose tendre, plus vif à 'aClf' conférence qu'au centre. M<br />C. Henri Favre, imbriqué, rose clair, perd facilemenf * boutons. ^,<br />C. Ida Borrini, corail foncé, tacheté de blanc, pétales Incrément bordés de blanc.<br /><br />p.959<br /><br /><br />Camellia il 22 Marzo, rosiforme, rouge cerise, pétales bordés raversés de lignes blanc pur.<br />C. imbricata rubra, imbriqué, rouge carminé, ancienne vaté, toujours très belle.<br />C. imbricata (Dunlop), rose tendre, imbriqué.<br />C. incarnata, imbriqué; pétales pointus, disposés en étoile, [bl]anc carné.<br />C. Isolina Corsi, rose foncé brillant, diaphane, pétales mâles de blanc aux extrémités, imbriqué.<br />C. Jacksoni, imbriqué, fond rouge, large ligne blancbe au ntre de chaque pétale.<br />C. jardin d'hiver, rose nuancé, carmin, imbriqué.<br />C. Jeffersonii, rouge brillant, ligné de blanc, imbriqué.<br />C. jubilee (XowJ, imbriqué, blanc carné, strié de rose, centre jaunàtre.<br />C. la Concordia, giroflée pâle, strié ponceau et tacheté de blanc.<br />C. Landrethi, imbriqué, rose tendre.<br />C. Laura Mortera, rose glacé, présente de légères stries lanches rosées.<br />C Leana superba, rosiforme, rose ponceau, centre plus clair, e plus tardif de tous.<br />C. Lemichezii (Mathot), fleurs grandes, imbrication parfaite, ouge carmin,plus pâle au centre qu'à la circonférence. Vigoureuse et très florifère<br />C madame Lebois (Mathot), rose carminé, plus pâle que le C. Reine, des fleurs, même forme, imbrication parfaite, très grande fleur.<br />C. madame Stretreloff, rose tendre satiné, largement strié de blanc jaunâtre, imbriqué, coloris assez nouveau.<br />C. Madona, blanc, légèrement macule de rose.<br />C. Magdalena, rose strié de blanc, imbriqué.<br />C. Mamelli, imbriqué, rose carminé très pur.<br />C. marchesa Teresa à"Ambra, imbriqué, rose vif, centre rose pile.<br />C. marchioness of Exeter, grande fleur imbriquée, rose vif, médiocre snr petits pieds.<br />C. Marguerite Gouillon, imbriqué, blanc carné, strié, rose carmin.<br />C. Maria Morren, grande fleur imbriquée, rouge cerise.<br />C. Maria Teresa, imbriqué, blanc carné, nuancé et strié de carmin.<br />C. Marielta Benucci, imbriqué, rose vif, centre strié de blanc i'iir, pétales arrondis.<br />C. marquise Natta, fleur très grande, imbriquée, rose clair à la circonférence, plus foncée au centre.<br />C. Mathotiana, fleur énorme, rose carmin, à reflets cerise, imbriqué.<br />C. Mazuchelli, imbriqué, rouge cerise vif, rubané de blanc.<br />C. Miniata (Low), rouge à centre blanchâtre, imbriqué.<br />C. miss Alby Wilder, imbriqué, blanc panaché de carmin.<br />C. Montironi, fleur énorme, imbriquée; pétales en coquilles, blanc pur, parfois veiné de rose.<br />C nassiniana, imbriqué, rose tendre rubanné de blanc.<br />C optima (Low), rose maculé de carmin.<br /><br />p.960<br />Camellia perfection (Palmer), imbriqué, rouge cerise, ligné de blanc, reflets bleuâtres sur la fin de la floraison.<br />C. Pie IX, rouge cerise, ligné de blanc, fleur moyenne, imbriquée.<br />C. pictorum rosea, rose de Chine, fleur énorme imbriquée.<br />C. Prattii, imbriquée, rose satiné, striée de blanc, se forme difficilement.<br />C. prince Albert, imbriqué, centre pœoniforme, ponctué, et veiné de carmin.<br />C. princesse Bacciocchi, imbriqué, carmin ponceau, strié de blanc, admirable.<br />C. principessa Vidoni, rouge cerise.rayé de blanc, centre blanchâtre, imbriqué, forme particulière analogue a celle du C. Leana superba.<br />C. queen of Denmark (Low), rouge nuancé d'un coloris nouveau, tournant au violet dans la seconde période de la floraison.<br />C. queen Victoria, imbriqué, rose vif, largement rubané de blanc.<br />C. reine des Belges (Donkelaar), rouge cerise foncé au centre, plus pâle au milieu, bariolé de blanc, et veiné de rouge foncé, pétales larges à la circonférence, lancéolés au centre.<br />C. reine des fleurs, imbriqué, vermillon, pétales lancéolés, magnifique, feuillage très pointu.<br />C. reine des Roses, très pleine, imbriquée, rose tendre à la circonférence, rose maculé de blanc jaunâtre au centre.<br />C. reticulata (Species), semi-double, la plus grande fleur connue, pétales ondulés, rose vif, étamines jaunes et très nombreuses.<br />C. roi des Blancs, imbriqué, blanc pur.<br />C. rubescens, striata (Low), rouge saumon, strié de blanc, imbriqué.<br />C. saccoï nova, imbriqué, rose très tendre, superbe.<br />C. Sgariglio, imbriqué, d'un beau carmin brillant.<br />C. Siccardii, imbriqué, rouge sanguin très foncé, ligné de blanc au centre des pétales.<br />C. sovereign, fleur énorme, imbriqué, blanc, maculé de carmin, peu florifère.<br />C. Targioni, blanc strié de carmin, forme admirable.<br />C. Teutonia, imbriqué, forme parfaite, fleurs blanches ou roses, quelquefois l'un et l'autre, parfois aussi blanc cerné, veiné de rose.<br />C. Teresa Massini, rose tendre, centre strié de blanc.<br />G. tricolor, semi-double, blanc lavé et panaché de rose.<br />C. Valtaveredo, fleur énorme, forme du Montironi, imbriquée, pétales larges, rose vif à la circonférence, et rose tendre satiné au centre.<br />C. Verscha/felti, imbriqué, rose vif largement et régulièrement panaché de blanc.<br />C. Vessillo di Flora, rose saumoné, grande fleur imbriquée.<br />C. Yellow, espèce rapportée de Chine par M. Fortune; feuillage étroit et allongé, fleur anémoniforme, jaune pâle.<br /><br />p.961<br />Nous citerons enfin, comme variétés remarquables devant seulement figurer dans la 2e catégorie 1 :<br /><br />Camellia abbate Bianchi *<br />C. Adrien Lebrun<br />C. agilis<br />C. alba Casoretti<br />C. alba fenestrata<br />C. Americana (Dunlop)<br />C. Anna Zucchini *<br />C. archiduc Fernando<br />C. archiduchesse Augusta (Puccini)<br />C. Ayez*<br />C. Beali palmer<br />C. Beccaria*<br />C. bella di Pistoja*<br />C. Bergama*<br />C. Borgia<br />C. Bruceana<br />C. Camilla Galli*<br />C. Carbonara<br />C. Carswelliana<br />C. Colletti<br />C. Colvilii<br />C. comte Lorenzo Taverna*<br />C. comte de Maglian<br />C. comte de Mocenigo<br />C. comte de Spauri*.<br />C. Crimson perfection<br />C. duc de Chartres.<br />C. duc de Reichstadt*.<br />C. duchesse de Northumberland<br />C. Elena Ugoni*<br />C. Emilia Gavazzi<br />C. fra. Arnoldo di Brescia*.<br />C. Garibaldi*.<br />C. gloire de Ledeberg*.<br />gloria del Verbano<br />C. Grety<br />C. Grunelli<br />C. Guillaume Tell*.<br />C. Guthriana.<br />C. Hallegi.<br />C. Hamsteadi.<br />C. innocenza<br />C.Iride*.<br />C. Jeffersoni.<br />Camellia Kilwingtoniana.<br />C. Leda superba.<br />C. Lombarda.<br />C. Lowi.<br />C. Manara *.<br />C. marchesa Carega *.<br />C. Maria Antonietla*.<br />C. Mariana Trivulyia '.<br />C. Marietta Massant *.<br /> C. marquise Elisa Centurion*.<br />C. Mazeppa *.<br />C. Montblanc.<br />C. onore della Torre *.<br />C. Opizina *.<br />C. Pensylvanica *.<br />C. perfecta (Chalmer).<br />C. Phliadelphica.<br />C. picturata.<br />C. Pirlo*.<br />C. Pizzio.<br />C. Pluton.<br />C. Pomponia.<br />C. prince de Canino.<br />C. princesse royale.<br />C. princesse Adélaïde de Carignan<br />C. princesse. Mathilde.<br />C. principessa Maria Pia *.<br />C. providenza *.<br />C. queen of England.<br />C radiata *.<br />C. Rapalino *.<br />C. re d'Italia<br />C. re (Mariani).<br />C. Rennica*.<br />C. Ristori.<br />C. Rising Sun.<br />C. Robertsoni.<br />C. Romaniensis *<br />C. Rubini.<br />C. signora di Monza*.<br />C. Silvio Perovano *.<br />C. Storyi*.<br />C. sulcata.<br />C. Sweti de Colvill.<br />C. Thomasini.<br /><br />(1) Nous avons marqué d'un astérisque les variétés vantées par certains horticulteurs, mais que nous n'avons pas encore suffisamment appréciées, et que nous ne pouvons, par conséquent, placer dans la première catégorie.Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-11965166424179530992010-03-19T15:33:00.000-07:002010-03-19T15:37:00.458-07:00Paris Camellia Show 1846Paris Camellia Show, 1846.—It is to the lady patronesses of the Societe Royale and Cercle General d'Horticulture that we are indebted for an exhibition of these splendid plants, which, moreover, they propose to continue eveiy spring. It certainly is a fortunate thing that ladies, moving in the highest circles of rank and fashion, should take so great an interest in horticulture, otherwise we must have been content with one annual show from each society, as heretofore. It is incomprehensible how the directors of these societies (which, by the by, are most liberally patronized by the public) can rest satisfied with remaining stationary while all the world beside is progressing at rail-road pace ; but such is the fact. It must be obvious that exhibitions, when honorably conducted, conduce perhaps more than any thing else to the prosperity of horticulture ; this has been the case both in England and Belgium, and would be the same here were the status quo got rid of. Let us hope the spirited conduct of the ladies may be the dawn of anew era. Upon the present occasion, they offered a gold medal for the finest and moat numerous collection of seedling or new camellias in flower, and another gold medal for the finest and most numerous general collection ; also a silver medal for the finest and most numerous collection of rhododendrons, and another for azaleas ; beside other prizes for the second best in each class. It is to be regretted that the programme was indefinite as to the number of plants; because it has too frequently happened that the most numerous collection has been rewarded, and a smaller one, every way superior, altogether passed over. The show was held in the grand gallery of the Palais du Luxembourg, from the 18th to the 22d of this month (March); unfortunately, intimation was only given to growers within the last three weeks, and the collections were not so numerous as might have been wished. No doubt, camellias would have been better ten days or a fortnight ago, but that would have been too early for azaleas; perhaps there may have been other reasons, otherwise how shall we account for the fact, that only ten exhibitors could be found among the multitude of public and private growers round Paris? It is but too notorious that a spirited collector, with a long purse, is in a far better position to gain a prize than the most skilful cultivator of a moderate-sized collection; this system would not be tolerated in England ; here it is openly practised, and plants gain a prize which have been purchased but a few days previously. On the whole, considering the shortness of the notice, both the public and exhibitors have reason to be satisfied ; there were some fine specimens, and not a<br /><br />VOL. XII—NO. VI. 30<br /><a id="PA234" class="page"></a><br />few beautiful new things; the wards were, moieover, strictly just. <strong>The competitors of camellias were Messieurs Cels, Courtois, Durand, Gontiers, Hardy, Margottin, Paillet, and Souchet;</strong> for rhododendrons, Messieurs. Durand, Guerin, and the Barons James and Salomon de Rothschild ; for azaleas, Durand and Margottin. It was expected that the Abbe Berleze, so well known by his splendid " Monographie du genre Camellia," would have been among the exhibitors ; his collection was considered the finest private one in Paris ; it appears, however, that he has, within the last week, disposed of it to the proprietors of the new winter-garden of the Champs Elysees for the sum of 1200£. The gold medal for the finest general collection of camellias was awarded to Mr. Paillet, who is one of the best Parisian growers. In his collection were some fine large plants from six to eight feet high, especially <strong>delicatissima, alba fenestrata, Clowesiana, Chandleri, Henri Favre, picturata, imbricata alba, and Wardii de Floy</strong> ; among the smaller plants: <strong>Cockii, imbricata rubra, Gousonia, Lineata, Queen Victoria, magniflora plena, Reevesii, eximia, and Chandleri elegans</strong>, were conspicuous for their perfection of form or color; but the gem of this collection was <strong>Preniland</strong>, a most beautiful cupped flower, large, very double, and the color a delicate pink ; to which may be added <strong>Marguerite de Gouillon</strong> and <strong>Pirzio</strong>, two pencilled flowers of great beauty. Mr. Souchet gained the gold medal for the finest collection of new varieties; among them I noticed two or three of extraordinary beauty, and perfectly distinct from any thing yet out. I regret not being able to give the names or numbers ; they were almost entirely without either. The flower which was most admired was of a pale pink, rather veined and regularly bordered white ; it was large, of good substance, and double, and no camellia grower will be without it; another was in the way of miniata, but far better; another like Lord Ker, but the stripe more distinct. He also gained the second prize for a general collection. The plants were not large, but well blown, particularly <strong>imbricata rubra, Marguerite Gouillon, Henri Favre, Juliana, Augustina superba, Colvilli, King, Decus Italicum, picturata, Lord Ker, Chandleri, Duchesse d'Orleans, and Queen Victoria</strong>. Prizes were also awarded to Messrs. Courtois and Goutier. The silver medal for rhododendrons was awarded to Mr. Grison, gr. to Baron Salomon de Rothschild, for a large collection of well grown plants, among which I noticed Smithii elegans, Lady Warrender, Duchess of Wurtemberg, speciosum, &c. ; the only thing wanting was a greater diversity of color. The second prize was awarded to Mr. Guerin, for a smaller collection ; his plants of Smithii roseum, Lady Warrender, formosissimum, and superbum, were every thing that could be wished. It was evidently too early for azaleas. The silver medal was gained by Mr. Margottin ; his best flowers were Smithii coccinea, variegata, liliflora, Youngii, and hlacina triumphans. The second prize was awarded to Mr. Durand, for a small collection, consisting of coccinea grandiflora, variegata, Orange pink, liliflora alba, Mazeppa, phoenicea, Danielsii, and two or three others ; to which he added about twenty varieties of A. pontica, of no particular merit. (Gard. Chron. 1846, p. 206.)Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-91478817280943784842010-03-19T15:16:00.000-07:002010-03-19T15:18:58.883-07:00Camellia Matteo Malfino<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGseG5PwO0joJSmElrTmG9fyGy2v1PxWFT5zwHk599B0hqanGJtj-5UiS03PzlLEW7Gj0bufsdkZhyWHllLYyv3v-xoRDtUkUV1oQx2Csg4rcZJOGG1fwJfJrAi04spCahNmcW3Zg9Jxc/s1600-h/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Matteo+Malfino.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 270px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450472889023111090" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGseG5PwO0joJSmElrTmG9fyGy2v1PxWFT5zwHk599B0hqanGJtj-5UiS03PzlLEW7Gj0bufsdkZhyWHllLYyv3v-xoRDtUkUV1oQx2Csg4rcZJOGG1fwJfJrAi04spCahNmcW3Zg9Jxc/s400/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Matteo+Malfino.jpg" /></a><br /><div>L'Illustration Horticole, vol. 14 (1867) planche 539</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Italie</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-84915233389600603862010-03-19T15:12:00.000-07:002010-03-19T15:16:08.173-07:00Camellia Vittorio Emanuele II<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nvOuLwo7i4wFDlQfsswebjlTyDBny8bnN1zntPsanY0lj0FXOnwg-2AG2H79lggStysLZFpw-maTE-z2mSQtU15Tt0Q5V8EsLVu6FPNNxWWJ3vCVqHyS2nqW1mjQNN9sQMvMd3BEfss/s1600-h/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Vittorio+Emanuele+II.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 278px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450472249453563490" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nvOuLwo7i4wFDlQfsswebjlTyDBny8bnN1zntPsanY0lj0FXOnwg-2AG2H79lggStysLZFpw-maTE-z2mSQtU15Tt0Q5V8EsLVu6FPNNxWWJ3vCVqHyS2nqW1mjQNN9sQMvMd3BEfss/s400/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Vittorio+Emanuele+II.jpg" /></a><br /><div>L'Illustration Horticole, vol. 14 (1867) planche 533</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>M. Palazzi, de Venise</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-644057459096437912010-03-19T15:10:00.001-07:002010-03-19T15:12:44.945-07:00Camellia Carlotta Peloso<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPLZQ3wqdL9a8xFTWZ87B_VPJoUHaZM5fA7OpAVFi6iEcHgpvw3B5dgjW6eu1hK0OPtodVWpxDfOZcGry5SlzeCZCPgRXdy8UrFnnV3RUNV7TKMAkmv0-DQf5kZWm9J3Imvpq29IoY6w/s1600-h/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Carlotta+Peloso.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 268px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450471383571570514" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPLZQ3wqdL9a8xFTWZ87B_VPJoUHaZM5fA7OpAVFi6iEcHgpvw3B5dgjW6eu1hK0OPtodVWpxDfOZcGry5SlzeCZCPgRXdy8UrFnnV3RUNV7TKMAkmv0-DQf5kZWm9J3Imvpq29IoY6w/s400/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Carlotta+Peloso.jpg" /></a><br /><div>L'Illustration Horticole vol. 14 (1867) planche 527</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Origine italienne reçue 1864</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-70115240876387384782010-03-19T15:06:00.002-07:002010-03-19T15:09:45.781-07:00Camellia Angelo Cocchi<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNex7AzzhFb6_EBEPKQSipbTWjULSoTcmkXEfy78kBqIMFo1m4kGhvvskHCz6VCO15XJKwGnxK7tsQru9MRl1uZJBpmtzf2uW1ECT8vF9LS9lEiI7hqygDXgnreXYlMK02fV1Z8eeTSg/s1600-h/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Angelo+Cocchi.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 266px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450470596681137154" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggNex7AzzhFb6_EBEPKQSipbTWjULSoTcmkXEfy78kBqIMFo1m4kGhvvskHCz6VCO15XJKwGnxK7tsQru9MRl1uZJBpmtzf2uW1ECT8vF9LS9lEiI7hqygDXgnreXYlMK02fV1Z8eeTSg/s400/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Angelo+Cocchi.jpg" /></a><br /><div>L'Illustration Horticole vol. 14 (1867) planche 518</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Italienne</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3407147988538119714.post-45881713430624738682010-03-19T14:59:00.000-07:002010-03-19T15:05:19.285-07:00Camellia Constantin Trétiakoff<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnLGqFm9VW2fpZy1zoLyt1uxOMlIUWDbcnW-iVaAVu_9hQYeosVGwQMQmuYgj6sKPvOcvEdcljMbRtwj2MY9HPyJHYBNM4CtGxvizT7XuY3sJkFm3a5TMx6XIdY7pXxeXcM3WINtrgZ0/s1600-h/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Constantin+Tretiakoff.jpg"><img style="WIDTH: 264px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450469455490910738" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHnLGqFm9VW2fpZy1zoLyt1uxOMlIUWDbcnW-iVaAVu_9hQYeosVGwQMQmuYgj6sKPvOcvEdcljMbRtwj2MY9HPyJHYBNM4CtGxvizT7XuY3sJkFm3a5TMx6XIdY7pXxeXcM3WINtrgZ0/s400/L'Illustration+Horticole+1867+Camellia+Constantin+Tretiakoff.jpg" /></a><br /><div>L'Illustration Horticole vol. 14 (1867) planche 509</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>sport from Elisa Centurioni</div>Gerald Luckhursthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09057539968667536830noreply@blogger.com0