Botany at One's Fingers' Ends
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Horticulture, Display, Botany, Natural History, |
Responding to a report in The Times of the 'hand tree' exhibited at the most recent show of the Royal Horticultural Society, suggests that the plant is a 'new species of palm', which 'wears nothing but fox-gloves', for it is 'hand-and-glove with Digit-alis'. | |
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