| Description | Botanical study of Fraxinus, common name ash. Described by Robert Morison in 'Hortus Regius Blesensis Auctus' (1669). According to Philip Miller's 'The Gardener's Dictionary' (1735), seeds from this tree were brought from Italy by Dr William Sherrard, and raised in England by Dr Robert Uvedale in Enfield. This painting is reproduced, in mirror image, in the Society of Gardeners' book 'Catalogus Plantarum' (1730) (plate 9, engraved by by Elisha Kirkall).
Plant with green stem, green leaves and plumes of small white flowers hanging downwards. Inscribed in ink 'Fraxinus florifera botryoides, Mor. Hort. R. Blaess.' Not signed. |