Unpublished paper, 'On a new method of propagating plants' by E J [Edward Joseph] Lowe

Description

Lowe shares a paper on a new method of propagating plants for the guidance of those who are interested in the advance of horticulture. He suggests that if a cutting of a plant were sealed at the base, so as to exclude the moisture of the soil from ascending the stem in large quantities, this would make taking and propagating cuttings easier. His experiment involves using collodion to seal the base of a plant cutting.

Subject: Botany / Horticulture

Received 17 November 1853. Communicated by J F W [John Frederick William] Herschel Bart.

Written by Lowe at Highfield House Observatory [England].

Whilst the Royal Society declined to publish this paper in full, an abstract of the paper was published in volume 6 of Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society] as 'On a new method of propagating plants'.

Reference number

AP/34/15

Earliest possible date

29 October 1853

Physical description

Ink on paper

Page extent

4 pages

Format

Manuscript