 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1806 - 774 pages
...fcen neither fweet-william nor carnation, but refembling botb equally: thigwas laifed from the Iced of a carnation that had been impregnated by the farina of the fweet-william. Tlrs furni(hi:sa hint for altering the properties and Ufte of any fruit by impregnating... | |
 | Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) - Botany - 1900 - 370 pages
...Hoxton, a plant neither Sweet William nor Carnation, but resembling both equally, which was raised from the seed of a Carnation that had been impregnated by the farina of the Sweet William." Here we have the first record of an artificially produced hybrid, and you will remark that this was... | |
 | Ernest Thomas Cook - Carnations - 1905 - 222 pages
...as may be now seen in the garden of Mr. Thomas Fairchild, resembling both equally, which was raised from the seed of a Carnation that had been impregnated by the farina of the Sweet William." Bradley, who was Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, does not appear to have entertained... | |
 | Rebecca W. Bushnell - Gardening - 2003 - 220 pages
...of Hoxton, a Plant neither Sweet William or Carnation, but resembling both equally, which was raised from the seed of a carnation that had been impregnated by the Farina of the Sweet William. 82 The creation of Fairchild's "mule" or cross between a sweet William and carnation was reported to... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1899 - 686 pages
...Hoxton, a plant neither Sweet William nor Carnation, but resembling both equally, which was raised from the seed of a Carnation that had been impregnated by the Farina of the Sweet William." Here we have the first record of an artificially-produced hybrid, and you will remark that this was... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1899 - 682 pages
...Hoxton, a plant neither Sweet William nor Carnation, but resembling both equally, which was raised from the seed of a Carnation that had been impregnated by the Farina of the Sweet William." Here we have the first record of an artificially-produced hybrid, and you will remark that this was... | |
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... some respects alike, the Farina of the one will impregnate the other, and the Seed so enlivened will produce a Plant differing from either, as may now be seen in the garden of Mr. Thomas Fairchild, of Hoxton, a plant neither Sweet William nor Carnation,... 