![]() ![]() These are all observations of a botanical nature that are appropriate for journal entries.Īt some point this winter, maybe today, snowdrops (Galanthus nivalis), a bulblike white flower will start to bloom in sunny exposures. ![]() Look for changes over time the flowers will fade, fruit will develop, leaf buds might become more conspicuous. You can describe the flower or the general shape of the plant, or photograph it and note in your journal that you took its picture. Whether you know its name or not, if you notice a shrub or small tree in bloom, especially “out of season,” it’s an observation worth making. ![]() If you follow a similar route every day, watch for differences in the plants you notice.ĥ Your journal will be examined and graded at the end of the course.įor example, the Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is in bloom (New Year’s Day). It can be about trees or shrubs or “weeds” or ferns, mosses, or fungi. The journal is a way to keep the class in mind every day, and keep plants front and center.Ĥ Write something about something botanical you have observed that day, preferably outdoors. What’s in your journal? – Some October entires by Henry David Thoreauġ Use a notebook small enough to carry in your pocket or pack.Ģ Use a pen or in very cold weather when pens often won’t write, use a pencil.ģ Allow just one page per day and date each page. Some things to remember about plants, articles to read, etc. Instructions on making a set of plant pressings WELCOME TO The New York Botanical Garden’s HRT 300 – INTRODUCTION TO PLANT SCIENCE….Winter 2018 Still I never studied botany, and do not today systematically, the most natural system is still so artificial.” Henry David Thoreau I little thought that in a year or two I should have attained to that knowledge without all that labor. Though I knew most of the flowers, and there were not in any particular swamp more than half a dozen shrubs that I did not know, yet these made it seem like a maze to me, of a thousand strange species, and I even thought of commencing at one end and looking it faithfully and laboriously through till I knew it all. I remember gazing with interest at the swamps about those days and wondering if I could ever attain to such familiarity with plants that I should know the species of every twig and leaf in them, that I should be acquainted with every plant (excepting grasses and cryptogamous ones), summer and winter, that I saw. I never used any other, and when some whom I visited were evidently surprised at its dilapidated look, as I deposited it on their front entry table, I assured them it was not so much my hat as my botany-box. I began to bring them home in my hat, a straw one with a scaffold lining to it, which I called my botany-box. About half a dozen years ago I found myself again attending to plants with more method, looking out the name of each one and remembering it. ![]() But from year to year we look at Nature with new eyes. I was never in the least interested in plants in the house. I was not inclined to pluck flowers preferred to leave them where they were, liked them best there. I also learned the names of many, but without using any system, and forgot them soon. SECDOND CLASS – NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN – THURSDAY MORNINGS – BEGINNING JANUARY 11TH at 10 amĭecember 4, 1856: “My first botany, as I remember, was Bigelow’s “Plants of Boston and Vicinity,” which I began to use about twenty years ago, looking chiefly for the popular names and the short references to the localities of plants, even without regard to the plant. WINTER ACONITE, FORSYTHIA, PRIMROSE, LOTS OF SNOWDROPS, DAFFODIL LEAVES, ALLIUM, ETCįIRST CLASS – MID-MANHATTAN – MONDAY and THURSDAY EVENINGS – BEGINNING JANUARY 8TH – at 6:15 INCLUDING 3 CROCUSES – WINTER JASMINE, KOREAN RHODODENDRON TWO CLASSES – one in midtown the other in the Bronx ![]()
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