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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: 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
[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
[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
[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
[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
[Rock Springs Road Entrance]
Photograph of the Rock Springs Road entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden At center is a decorative pillar holding a detailed lamp on the north end of the road. A square fountain bearing the words "Fort Worth Botanic Garden" is on the end of the pillar. Shrubs and red roses flank the pillar. Behind the pillar is an iron fence and bare trees.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Botanic Garden Entrance]
Photograph of the eastern entrance to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The entrance sign, containing the text "Fort Worth Botanic Garden" and several fountain fixtures, is visible at left. To its right is part of the road that leads into the botanical garden, towards the Garden Center and its greenhouse. Patches of yellow flowers and shrubs are in front of the entrance sign and the right half of the image, several feet away from the road.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Floral Clock at Botanic Garden Entrance]
Photograph of a floral clock at the eastern entrance of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The clock bears a stone trim and metal hands, and inside the clock is a symmetric arrangement of flowers that resembles the side profile of a budding flower. The bud, located along the center of the clock, is red; its pedals, purple; and the clock's foreground is made of white flowers. The clock reads approximately 8:55.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Conservatory Holiday Flower Arrangement]
Photograph of flower arrangements within the conservatory of the Garden Center in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The most prominent arrangement, located in the left foreground, is a circular bouquet of red poinsettias, bounded by a ring of white flowers. Adjacent to it is an elevated water fountain, its jets obscured by a prominent bush hanging over a bed of pink flowers. Behind the bouquets are courses of red and white poinsettias arranged along the edge of a curved concrete walkway, which sits in front of hanging flowering bushes, short palm trees, and a wall lined with windows. Two simple pyramids, resembling Christmas trees, is visible behind the fountain.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Garden Center Lecture Hall]
Photograph of inside the lecture hall in the Garden Center of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Depicted is a circular auditorium-like room, with rows of folded cushioned chairs arranged in curved arcs. At left is a slightly-elevated, flat inset stage containing a podium and three plant arrangements in front of a red curtain. Soft yellow lights are visible across the stepped ceiling and along the wall. The exit to the lecture hall is visible at right and contains brighter, white lights.
Date:
[1986..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lecture Hall Seasonal Planter]
Photograph of a decorative planter outside the lecture hall in the Garden Center of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The planter is placed on a circular stone platform, containing multiple multicolored bundles of flowers that rise vertically to surround a statue of a small, stone cherub, which is covered by a short tree. This planter sits prominently in front of furnishings such as house plants and covered tables.
Date:
April 1993
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[October 1999 Fun Fest]
Photograph of a festival event at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. A man stands upon a raised wooden stage situated in front of dense tree cover, which contains microphones, sound amplifiers, and white wooden fences in the background. A cut-out picture of a cartoon scarecrow lays against the wooden fence behind the speaker. A crowd of people, including adults, children, and small babies, watch along the bottom edge of the picture, most sitting on the grass below.
Date:
October 1999
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Flower Wagon in Japanese Garden]
Photograph of a stationary wooden wagon bearing large round multicolored bundles of flowers in the Japanese Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The wagon is located to the left of a concrete path that meanders between trees and foliage, converging with another concrete path spanning across the picture and obscured by the wagon of flowers.
Date:
October 1996
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Concert at the Botanic Garden]
Photograph of a concert stage at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The stage, large and prominent in the background of the image, is flanked on both sides by covered structures containing sound amplifiers and is covered by a roof-like sheet. Banners advertising Budweiser hang from the middle of the stage. Multiple seats are placed on the stage, which stands in front of a large white covered tent. In the lower half of the image, people of various ages are visible wandering through plastic lawn chairs.
Date:
1995
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History