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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
[Lower Rose Garden with Pool #1]
Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center is the "rose ramp", a wide rectangular set rose arrangements bordered with short hedges and lined with concrete steps along both sides. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion containing square colonnades on both ends of the structure and a trapezoidal roof. Below the "rose ramp" is the lower portion of the rose garden, which contains polygonal beds of roses and metal arches arranged in squares. Along the bottom of the image is the rose garden's small lake, lined with grass and trees. The pavilion, the rose ramp, and the flower arches are visible in the water's reflection.
Date:
[1934..1940]
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
[Lower Rose Garden with Pool #2]
Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. At center is the "rose ramp", a wide rectangular set rose arrangements bordered with short hedges and lined with concrete steps along both sides. Above the "rose ramp" are a set of stairs leading to a raised platform containing a wide pavilion containing square colonnades on both ends of the structure and a trapezoidal roof. Below the "rose ramp" is the lower portion of the rose garden, partially obscured by bushes. Along the bottom of the image is the rose garden's small lake, lined with grass and trees and covered in lily pads and leaves. The pavilion and the rose ramp are visible in the water's reflection.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rock Springs Stream]
Photograph of a stream near the Rock Springs area in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The stream flows along large, flattened boulders and short grasses into a small pond. Foliage is visible across the background.
Date:
1940
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rock Springs Garden Center East Side, 1944 #1]
Photograph of the Rock Springs Garden Center building from the east side at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in 1944, the building has a curved arch entrance, two narrow windows on both sides of the entrance, and a glasshouse part of the building at left. Shrubs adorn the front of the house, and the entire structure is nested around trees.
Date:
1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rock Springs Garden Center East Side, 1944 #2]
Photograph of the Rock Springs Garden Center building from the east side at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Taken in 1944, the building has a curved arch entrance, two narrow windows on both sides of the entrance, and a glasshouse part of the building at left. Shrubs adorn the front of the house, and the entire structure is nested around trees.
Date:
1944
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
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: 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: 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: 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
[Rock Springs Center Lobby]
Photograph of a lobby inside the Rock Springs Center at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. Two black couches with red cushions and white flower vases on both sides, backs facing each other, sit at the center of the image, with a white square coffee table visible in front with red wooden chairs adjoining it on a beige carpet. Two pairs of white tables with two white chairs each sit on the right side of the image, with a medium-sized tree in between. A Christmas tree is visible behind the couches. Windows, lined black, are visible on the southern and western sides of the room.
Date:
[1956..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Rose Garden, Looking Northeast, 1956]
Photograph of the Rose Garden in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden in 1956, looking northeast. A large rectangular field of roses and shrubs on a flat plain of grass is prominent at center. A corner of the garden's former hedge maze is visible at bottom right. The covered pavilion of the Lower Rose Garden at the top of the "rose ramp" is located at middle right above the rose field, alongside a road where three cars are parked. The road goes into the background into an area of shrubs and large, tall trees.
Date:
1956
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Visitors in Botanic Garden Maze]
Photograph of visitors in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden hedge maze. Three adults are accompanied by a child and walk along a hedge wall. An empty barrel and a small wooden covering is beside them. An advertisement billboard and a streetlight is visible behind the hedges. The former site of the hedge maze is currently occupied by the botanical garden's vegetable garden.
Date:
1956~
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Close-up of an emu]
Close-up photograph of an emu standing by a tree. The emu looks to the right side of the photo.
Date:
1962
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Lower Rose Garden with Snow]
Photograph of the Lower Rose Garden at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden covered with snow. At bottom center is the "rose ramp", a wide set of triangular arrangements of roses bordered with short hedges with a water stream running along concrete steps down the middle of the ramp and stairs along both sides of the flowers. Below the "rose ramp", at center is a rectangular pond with shrubs and bushes on each corner, and several polygonal beds of flowers lined with hedges, all of which are covered in white snow. Above the garden is a narrow frozen lake lined with bare white trees. Along the bottom foreground is a metal barricade covered snow.
Date:
April 1962
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yellow-flowered Asteraceae growing out of sand
Photograph of a yellow-flowered plant in the Asteraceae family, or the sunflower or daisy family, species unknown. The flowers grew in a white sandy area 1 mile north of Bullsbrook, Western Australia.
Date:
October 23, 1962
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Someone holding Velleia paradoxa in their hands]
Photograph of Velleia paradoxa (common name: spur velleia) being held by someone out of frame. A yellow flower is seen in the foreground, and there appears to be a plastic bag in the background.
Date:
November 13, 1962
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Aerial image of forested mountains]
Aerial photograph of a mountain range with some areas densely forested and other areas with shorter vegetation. Trails or roads and cleared circular areas can be seen on the mountain in the foreground. Small clouds can be seen above the mountain range and clouds in the distance with clear blue sky above.
Date:
1963
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Mary Daggett Lake Library]
Photograph of the Mary Daggett Lake Library at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. The library, located in the Rock Springs Center, contains bookshelves along the four corners of the room. At center is a wide gray fireplace with a portrait of Mary Daggett Lake hanging above, with bookshelves lined with books on both sides of the fireplace. At center, set upon a large rug, is a wooden table with two adjoining, cushioned wooden tables and a large white book atop it, as well as a pair of reclined white armchairs with adjoining white lamps behind the table. At right there is a large, tiled window, from which the fragrance garden is visible.
Date:
[1963..]
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Sonchus platylepis growing on rocky cliff]
Habit photograph of common sow thistle, scientific name Sonchus platylepis, growing on the side of a rocky cliff. The plant is pictured in the foreground, and its flowers are yellow and its leaves serrated. Behind the plant to the right, there is a noticeable absence of light.
Date:
May 8, 1967
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Close-up of Limonium macrophyllum flowers]
Close-up photograph of sea lavender flowers, scientific name Limonium macrophyllum, growing at the JardÃn Canario de Viera y Clavijo, or the botanic garden located on Gran Canaria - one of the Canary Islands.
Date:
[1967-05-13..1967-05-16]
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Limonium macrophyllum growing along craggy rocks]
Photograph of Limonium macrophylllum (common name: sea lavender) growing along some rocks. The flower blossoms are lavender, and the stems are reddish-brown.
Date:
[1967-05-13..1967-05-16]
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Echium pininana leaning to the left]
Photograph of a tree echium plant, scientific name Echium pininana, growing in the Canary Islands. The plant leans slightly to the left.
Date:
June 16, 1967
Creator:
Carlquist, Sherwin John, 1930-2021
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History