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A Manual of Texas Flora
Manuscript for botany students describing 98 families of plants in Texas including 341 genera and 774 species. The book is organized into four parts: 1// Key to the Families, pages 1-100; 2// [Mustard] Family -- Flax Family, pages 101-150 and Flax Family -- Evening Primrose Family (Guara), pages 151-200; 3// Potato Family -- Madder Family (Galium), pages 251-300 and Evening Primrose Family (Guara) -- Solanaceae Pers. Potato Family, pages 201-250; 4// Honey Suckle Family -- Composite XVI. (Leptilon), pages 301-350 (First Part) and Composite XVI. (Leptilon) -- End, pages 351-383 (Second Part) with General Index of Latin Names, pages L1-L7, English Index, Including Popular Plant Names, pages E1-E6, and Glossary, pages G1-G11.
Date:
August 28, 1916
Creator:
Ruth, Albert
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1945-1946]
Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, photographs, event programs, correspondence, and other items.
Date:
1945/1946
Creator:
Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1952-1953]
Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including correspondence, newspaper clippings, event programs, maps, photographs, and other items.
Date:
1952/1953
Creator:
Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1979-1980]
Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including event invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other items.
Date:
1979/1980
Creator:
Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1954-1960]
Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, event programs, certificates, and other ephemera.
Date:
1954/1960
Creator:
Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fort Worth Garden Club Scrapbook: 1951-1952]
Scrapbook for the Fort Worth Garden Club documenting activities, including newspaper clippings, certificates, event programs, photographs, and other items.
Date:
1951/1952
Creator:
Fort Worth Garden Club
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard Gathering]
Photograph of a gathering of people at the Leonard Courtyard in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A fountain, partially surrounded by purple flowers on the left, is prominently placed in the foreground. Across the picture, people are scattered, most walking across the courtyard and holding conversations with one another. The background shows dense, fully-grown trees.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard in Daytime]
Photograph of the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Foliage covers the bottom of the frame, obscuring the bottom half of a low, round fountain. Along the courtyard, there are three elevated concrete beds, each planted with yellow flowers around a single slim tree. The concrete path leads directly to the Fuller Garden, which is partially obscured by trees in the background.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard, Looking Northeast]
Photograph of the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Multiple people are visible walking under a gabled roof, part of a building prominently featured in the background. Along the courtyard are trees planted on elevated concrete beds, surrounded on all sides by pink flowers. There are additional patches of pink flowers in the background and the foreground, bordering the concrete courtyard. At the edge of the courtyard, a stone path embedded in the grass leads into the foreground.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard Fountain #1]
Photograph of a low, round fountain in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, viewed from beneath an overhang with open, wooden rafters. Red and white flowers are planted around the fountain and left. and other plants are visible in the beds along the walkways. In the upper part of the image, a cross-gabled roof is partially visible with a pointed glass greenhouse roof farther in the background.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard Fountain #2]
Photograph of a low, round fountain in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, viewed from beneath an overhang with open, wooden rafters. Red and white flowers are planted around the fountain and left. and other plants are visible in the beds along the walkways. In the upper part of the image, a cross-gabled roof is partially visible with a pointed glass greenhouse roof faintly visible in the background.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Leonard Courtyard Flower Beds]
Photograph of three raised, square stone flower beds separated by walkways in the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Each of the flower beds has a slim, bare tree in the center surrounded by red and yellow flowers. Three wooden benches are arranged at the edge of the beds, facing an open area at left, where there is an outdoor dining table. A veranda under a stone building is visible behind the dining area, and a wooden fence bordered by trees is visible along the right side of the image.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Beggs Courtyard, Looking Northeast]
Photograph of the Beggs Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Looking northeast, a white building with tall glass windows partially flanks the courtyard. Angled, raised flower beds with shrubbery and slim trees are visible. A bed of red flowers lines the northern edge of the courtyard along the building. The Fort Worth skyline is faintly visible in the background behind dense tree coverage.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Entry Sign]
Photograph of the eastern entrance sign to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The structure contains two lamps on either ends; along the center, the text "Fort Worth Botanic Garden" is displayed in black serif signage. On either edge of the text are fountains with four water outlets pouring into a concrete pool. In the foreground of the image is a patch of red roses; in the background, a large tree.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Japanese Garden Pond Construction #1]
Photograph of construction work in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Wire mesh is laid out along a large empty dirt basin lined with stones, lumber, buckets, a wheelbarrow, and a large truck with a concrete pump and a cylindrical concrete mixer. Multiple workers are seen in the basin and on the truck.
Date:
1971-01~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Eastern Fuller Garden Construction Work]
Photograph of the Fuller Garden and the Leonard Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden undergoing work. The courtyard's elevated concrete planters, with yellow shrubs and flowers planted inside, are visible in the lower left half of the image. The veranda of the Garden Center is visible on the left side of the image. Construction workers and gardeners, scattered across the garden, work on stone pathways embedded into the grass. A man in a hat gestures towards an empty patch of dirt to another worker. Work cars are parked across the edge of the image towards the background, covered by trees.
Date:
1990-06~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Perennial Garden Waterfall #1]
Photograph of a rock waterfall in the Perennial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The waterfall is visible at bottom right, pouring from a stacked slope of flat boulders into a pond lined with rocks. A footpath at left runs along it, turning alongside a patch of flowers, partially obscured on the very left, and adjacent to an arrangement of tiered bushes, shrubs, yellow flowers, and short trees on its right, at center . Above the rock fountain is another footpath, elevated with metal fencing.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Grove]
Photograph of a grove in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A wide concrete path is visible at right center. Trees and bushes are scattered across the field.
Date:
[..1984-04]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fuller Garden Gazebo Footpaths]
Photograph of a footpath leading up to a gazebo in the Fuller Garden. The footpath is elevated and concrete, with a stone brick wall along its outer edge with shrubs and grasses below. On the right of the path is another, larger elevated plant bed that follows the contour of the curving footpath, and contains thick drooping bushes of flowers. A couple walks along the footpath, which leads to a round gazebo, partially obscured by a small tree.
Date:
1992
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Perennial Garden Footpaths #2]
Photograph of pathways in the Perennial Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A pond lined with rocks, flowers, and shrubs is visible at center. Concrete footpaths go around the pond, with a set of stairs at left and a ramp at right. A field of yellow flowers is prominent in the foreground.
Date:
November 1984
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Horseshoe Garden Benches]
Photograph of benches in the Horseshoe Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The benches are located along concrete footpaths under the shade of large trees. Tall grasses, flower bushes, and bushes are visible around the benches.
Date:
July 1995
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rose Garden Colonnade]
Photograph of a colonnade at the rose gardens at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, consisting of multiple square arches, made of wooden planks atop stone brick pillars, along a footpath with concrete benches along it at right. Several drooping bushes cover multiple of the left stone pillars. The colonnade leads from the Lower Rose Garden to the Oval Rose Garden.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lower Rose Garden, Facing North, 1940]
Photograph of the eastern portion of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At left is a rectangular reflecting pond with small flower beds containing pink bushes and round shrubs on each corner surrounded by a concrete footpath. On the corners of the garden, displayed at right, are arrangements of grass paths both containing several curved metal arches arranged in squares with drooping rose bushes. Multiple beds of roses are arranged throughout this portion of the garden, which is bordered with a latticed wooden barrier sitting on a short wall of stone bricks and rectangular hedges. Multiple observers are visible walking around the garden.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Beggs Courtyard, Looking Northwest]
Photograph of the Beggs Courtyard at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Looking northwest, a white building with tall glass windows is partially visible flanking the courtyard on the right half of the image. Angled, raised flower beds with white flowers, shrubbery, and skinny flowering trees are visible. A wall along the upper part of the image contains more plant beds and a gate partially obscured by leaves.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History