#john lindley

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Sertum orchidaceum; A wreath of the most beautiful orchidaceous flowers, 1838 John Lindley

Floral Friday

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Movie #42 of 2024: The Core

Cringe defined.

The most ludicrous premise for a blockbuster action film since Face/Off. Post 9/11 disaster fantasy trashcan cinema. Whales save humans. Hilary Swank will make you cry. Scenery is chewed.

IMDB's new keyword descriptors include "Dark Comedy", but that's only during Tcheky Karyo's implosion death scene. It's about as much of a "dark comedy" as The Room.

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Pleasantville (1998)

Director - Gary Ross, Cinematography - John Lindley

"Nothing went wrong. People change."

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The Sum of All Fears (Phil Alden Robinson, 2002).

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Orchid: Diothonca imbricata and Maxillaria eburnea from `SertumOrchidaceum, 1838 by John Lindley Lindley Library, RHS, London, UK

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Pleasantville (1998) dir. Gary Ross

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Illustrations of A: Oberonia rufilabris – B: Oberonia griffithiana - C: Drymoda picta (1838), by John Lindley (1799–1865), in Sertum Orchidaceum, pl. 8

(Does not the Oberonia rufilabris in particular resemble a small insect?)

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Flora and Sylva

Today we present illustrations from Volume One of the revised edition of Paxton’s Flower Garden by John Lindley and Sir Joseph Paxton, revised by Thomas Baines and published by Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. in London in 1882. The color illustrations we are featuring today are by Walter Hood Fitch, a prolific botanical illustrator who also produced chromolithographs for Curtis’s Botanical Magazine.

Paxton’s Flower Garden was issued in monthly parts from 1882-1884, which became three volumes. It was written by two eminent British botanists. John Lindley (1799-1865) is considered by many as the “father of orchidology.” In his early years he served as an assistant to Sir Joseph Banks in his library and herbarium, and later was appointed assistant secretary to the Royal Horticultural Society. He was also elected Fellow of the Royal Society of London and in 1829 he was appointed professor of botany in the newly founded University of London. Sir Joseph Paxton (1803-1865) was a British gardener, designer, writer, Member of Parliament, and creator of one of most famous buildings of Victoria’s reign, The Crystal Palace, a cast-iron and glass structure originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851.

The preface states the original purpose of Paxton’s Flower Garden was “To supply, in monthly parts, as full an account of all the new and remarkable plants introduced into cultivation as is necessary to the horticulturist; the history of such plants being sought in botanical works published on the continent; to which English cultivators have little access, as well as in those of our own country, and in the gardens or herbaria from which they are derived.”

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–Sarah, Special Collections Graduate Intern