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But even this ancient book doesn' t hold all the answers. One panel in particular proved stubbornly cryptic. I couldn' t find it in Wallich and I looked in other books, and then one day when I was visiting Kew Gardens I saw this plant, and I thought, " That' s it." And it' s a Chilean plant in the family the invasive garden oxalis is from, so you never can anticipate when you' re gonna find something out. Just recently I found one of the last ones. There' s still a couple we are not quite sure what they are, but we' ll figure them out eventually. Probably my favourite of the archaic panels is one that' s a copy of a plate from Wallich, the pepper which, where we get black pepper from, and the place has little hanging elongate clusters of grapes, that' s what pepper fruits look like, but the artist who did the panel on the ceiling added a curlicuey bit at the top and put some flowers on, but the flowers are completely wrong, and I like the thought of someone turning a botanic illustration, which is beautiful in and of itself into a design which is also beautiful, but getting it botanically wrong. I think that' s nice. |
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rán ér zhè běn gǔ shū yě bù néng jiě dá suǒ yǒu de yí wèn, yǒu yí kuài xiāng bǎn yóu wéi shén mì. wǎ lì chí de shū lǐ méi yǒu zhè fú tú, wǒ yě chá yuè guò qí tā de shū. Kew Gardens yīng guó huáng jiā zhí wù yuán, hòu lái wǒ zài qiū yuán kàn dào yī zhū zhí wù, dāng jí líng guāng yī shǎn " jiù shì tā". zhè zhū zhí wù lái zì zhì lì, hé huā yuán qīn lüè zhě cù jiāng cǎo shì tóng yī kē, suǒ yǐ nǐ yǒng yuǎn cāi bú dào zì jǐ shén me shí hòu huì fā xiàn xiē shén me. bù jiǔ qián wǒ yòu zhǎo dào le zuì hòu jǐ zhū zhī yī, hái yǒu yī xiē wǒ men bú shì hěn què dìng, dàn zǒng huì zhǎo dào de. yào shuō wǒ zuì xǐ huān de gǔ xiāng bǎn, shì nà zhū hēi hú jiāo bǎn, nà tú àn cān kǎo le wǎ lì chí de shū. nà yī chuàn chuàn xiǎo pú táo yí yàng de dōng xī, jiù shì hú jiāo guǒ shí le. bù guò huà jiā zài huà zhè kuài qiàn bǎn de shí hòu, zài dǐng shàng tiān le diǎn juǎn qū de xiǎo chù shǒu. lìng yǒu jǐ duǒ huā zuò diǎn zhuì, dàn zhèi xiē huā wán quán huà cuò le. wǒ hěn xǐ huān zhè diǎn, bǎ zhí wù chā tú jīng guò chǔ lǐ zhuǎn huàn wèi yì shù shè jì, jié guǒ réng rán hěn měi, zhǐ bù guò wán quán tuō lí xiàn shí le, zhè diǎn zhēn de hěn kě ài. |