100 Flowers and How They Got Their Names (39 page)

Poll, Jan van de,
64

Pollination,
59
,
73
,
93
–94,
122
,
135
,
136
,
156
,
180
,
210
,
231

Ponticum
,
184
–85

Poppy,
31
,
32
,
176
–78

Portugal,
209

Potato,
57
,
59
,
86

Pot marigold,
139
,
140

Potter, Beatrix,
111

Price, James,
148

Priestly, Joseph,
196

Primrose,
68
,
179
–81

Primula. See
Primrose

Privet,
121

Propagation.
See
Hybridization

Proust, Marcel,
156

Puritans,
114

Pyrus japonica,
107

Q

Quince, flowering,
106
–8

Quinine,
21
,
22
,
67

R

Raffenau-Delile,
142
–43

Rand, Isaac,
82

Rauwolf, Leonhardt,
99

Ray, John,
29
,
99

Red-hot poker,
182
–83

Redouté, Pierre Joseph,
88
,
89
,
138
,
143
,
208

Reed, Henry,
106

Reeves, John,
42
,
227

Rhododendron,
184
–86,
200
.
See also
Azalea

Rhoeadine,
176

Ribbon bedding.
See
Carpet Bedding

Robin, Jean,
49

Robinson, William,
44

Roman mythology, Jupiter,
140
.
See also
Greek Mythology and Legend, Individuals and Gods in, Zeus

Romans,
53
,
62
,
118
,
123
,
132
,
151
,
164
,
184
,
187

Roosevelt, Theodore, and conservation,
20

Rosa. See
Rose

Rose,
187
–89

Rosetta stone,
143

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel,
130

Rothschild, Lionel,
185
,
186

Royal Horticultural Society,
75
,
220
,
224

Rudbeck, Olof, the Elder,
190

Rudbeck, Olof, the Younger,
190
,
191

Rudbeckia,
190
–92

Ruskin, John,
130
,
176
,
179

Russell, George,
135

Russia: expedition to,
31

exploration of,
7
–8,
15
,
147

irises in Siberia,
105

S

Sackville-West, Vita,
15
,
171

Saffron,
49
–50

Sage, culinary,
193

Sage, scarlet.
See
Scarlet Sage

Saint John,
230

Saint Paul, Baron Ulrich von,
4

Saint Paul-Illaire, Baron Adalbert Emil Walter Redcliffe le Tanneux von,
3
–4

Saintpaulia ionantha
,
4

Salvia. See
Scarlet Sage

Saponin,
232

Scarlet sage,
193
–94

Scholars, laudable exertions of,
xiii
,
30
,
51
,
70
,
123
,
130
,
212

Scilla,
26

Scopolamine,
61

Scott, Sir Walter, and
Rob Roy
,
182

Selene,
26

Shakespeare, William: and Gerard,
38

honeysuckle or woodbine,
93
,
145
–46

Lady Macbeth,
119

Ophelia,
129
–30

Puck,
217

Shanghai,
20
,
30
,
94

Shasta daisy,
41
,
59

Sheep, in Greek Mythology,
116

Sherard, Dr. James,
169

Sherard, William,
xiii

Shirley poppy,
177
–78

Short-day plants,
42
,
175

Siddal, Elizabeth,
130

Siebold, Philipp von,
97

Silas Marner.
See
Eliot, George

Silver bell,
195
–197

Sinning, William,
89

Sinningia speciosa
,
89

Smith, Captain John,
119

Smithsonian,
175

Snails, utilization of slimy propensities and seed dispersal,
40

Snapdragon,
198
–99

Snowdrop tree.
See
Silver Bell

Soap,
67
,
119

Soulange-Bodin, Etienne,
137

Soulié, Père Jean André,
10

South Africa, plants from,
84
,
87
,
126
,
182
,
192

South America: plants from,
21
,
27
,
60
,
79
,
126
,
140
,
153
,
166
,
167
,
168

plants from Brazil,
89
,
156
,
193

plants from Peru,
30
,
172

plants from “tropical” America,
145

Southern gardens.
See
North America, Southern Gardens

Sowbread,
52

Spain,
36
,
198

explorers from,
31

government of and New World resources,
56
,
88
,
194

Madrid,
56
,
233
,
234

Spanish hyacinth.
See
Bluebell

Speculation, unsubstantiated.
See
Conjecture

Spiraea. See
Spirea

Spirea,
200
–201.
See also
Astilbe

Sprengel, Christian,
73
,
96

Spurge,
175

Starwort,
7

Staunton, George,
173

Staunton, Thomas,
173

Stewartia,
234

Stock,
202
–4

Stourhead,
186

Strawflower.
See
Everlasting Flower

Suleiman the Magnificent,
121
,
214

Summer lilac.
See
Butterfly Bush

Sunflower,
205
–6

Sweden,
147
,
149

Sweet pea,
207
–8

Sweet potato,
146

Sweet William,
37
–38

Sweet, Robert,
87

Syringa. See
Lilac

T

Tagetes
,
140

Tagliabue brothers, and trumpet vine hybridization,
212

Tahiti,
27
,
28

Tanzania,
3

Tawny lily.
See
Daylily

Tea roses,
188

Tea,
34
,
109
,
161
,
162
,
188

Theophrastus,
37
,
169

Thiophenes,
141

Thoreau, Henry David,
135

Thorn apple.
See
Datura

Thouin, André,
57
,
208

Thunberg, Carl,
64
,
95
,
107
,
192

Tobacco plant,
168
,
209
–10

Torch lily.
See
Red-Hot Poker

Touch-me-not.
See
Impatiens

Tournefort, Joseph de: bush honeysuckle,
223

career of,
18

classification system of,
18
,
29

death of,
18

saffron,
50

trumpet vine,
212
,
213

Toxic roots,
59

Tradescant, John, the Elder,
7
,
87
,
212

Tradescant, John, the Younger,
7
,
8

Tree celandine.
See
Plume Poppy

Trimorphism,
130

Tritoma. See
Red-Hot Poker

Tritonia. See
Montbretia

Tropaeolum. See
Nasturtium

Trumpet vine,
211
–13

Tübingen, University of,
79

Tulip,
214
–16

Tulipa. See
Tulip

Tulipomania,
215

Turkey,
99
,
114
,
121
,
214
,
216

Turner, William: bluebell,
26

cyclamen,
51
–52

and hair dye,
140

herbal of,
52

lavender,
119

and sufferance of infants,
52

Tweedie, James,
166
–67,
168

Twining plants,
145
–46,
153

U

Uvedale, Robert,
207
–8

V

Veitch, Henry,
20

Versailles,
211

Viburnum
,
16

Victoria Falls,
87

Victoria, Queen,
112
,
221
,
224

Victorians,
17
,
33
,
52
,
57
,
59
,
71
,
112
,
132
,
167
,
186
,
193
,
208
,
210

Vinblastine,
151

Vinca
,
150
,
151

Viola. See
Violet

Violet,
4
,
217
–19

Virginia,
25
,
35
,
61
,
136

Virginia bluebell.
See
Bluebell

Virgin's bower.
See
Clematis

Vitruvius (Roman architect),
17

W

Waller, Horace,
103

Ward, Nathaniel,
23

Wardian case,
23
,
94
,
112

Warner's Jessamin,
83

Wars of Roses,
188

Water lily,
220
–22

Waterer, John,
200

Weigel, Christian Ehrenfried von,
224
–25

Weigela,
223
–25

Wendland, Hermann,
4

White, Gilbert,
29
,
40
,
109

Wilde, Oscar,
55
,
112

Wilks, William,
29
,
178

Willmott, Ellen,
133
,
172
,
181

Wilson, Ernest: and seeds of beauty bush,
20

regal lily,
124
–25

Wistar, Caspar,
78
,
226
,
228

Wisteria,
226
–28

Withering, William,
78

Woodbine,
93

Wordsworth, Dorothy,
55

Wort.
See
Medicinal Plants

X

Xenophon,
184

Y

Yarrow,
229
–30

Yucca,
231
–32

Z

Zanzibar,
103

Zeno,
134

Zinn, Johann Gottfried,
233

Zinnia,
233
–34

Zinn's zonule,
233

Zouche, Lord Edward

career of,
35

sending candytuft seeds,
35

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