Page 172 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'Memorandums on certain occasions' by John Damper Parks, continued

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Title: Page 172 of John Damper Parks' journal and notes: 'Memorandums on certain occasions' by John Damper Parks, continued

Scope & content: Page 172: Notes on plants in Macao [Macau] and China. Includes a note: 'brought from page 183'. For the beginning of the notes, entitled 'Memorandums on certain occasions', 18 Sep 1823, see RHS/Col/4/1/20

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(2 Nov 1823) 'Plants sent from Macao, by Mr Beale [Thomas Beale, naturalist, merchant and opium speculator in Macao] arrived at Canton [Guangzhou, China]'

(12 Nov 1823) Seeing four chrysanthemums, 'the finest I ever saw', one a purple plant bearing 60 flowers simultaneously, with each flower on a separate branch, trained from the same place by the plant having been stopped to make it stock out. The plant measuring four feet, the flowers tied to separate sticks, and 'regulated by passing a piece of worsted round every stick, keeping the whole in a great degree of uniform'

(10 Nov 1823) Plants arriving from Macao, sent by Captain Wilson [J.P. Wilson, captain of HCS Hythe] from Prince Wales' Island [Pulo Penang, Malaysia]