Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Botany, Natural History, Physiology, Invention

    Discusses the excitement caused among the 'fair sex' by an advertisement in The Times for a 'Creosoting Plant'. Speculates on the botanical classification, the creosote-production mechanism, flowering characteristics, and odour of the plant. Imagines that the advertiser must have been 'Driven almost frantic' by questions regarding the plant's characteristics.