[Aroid-l] Aroids in Art

From: Deni at yaxhampark.co.uk (Deni Bown) on 2007.11.27 at 18:22:33(16751) Dear Jason, Julius is right that Deni Bown is thanking you for sharing the delightful illustration of 'lords & ladies', and here she is doing it in person! Many thanks indeed! The accompanying discussion took me back to my earliest aroid days when in my frantic search to find anything written on the family, I came across Cecil Prime's "Lords and Ladies". This wonderful book was first published in 1960 as a special volume in the New Naturalist series. It was out of print when I first started ferreting out information on aroids for my own book, but with perfect timing Dr Prime's widow, Frances, had it reprinted in 1981 and I obtained a copy from her. The second chapter is devoted to the numerous names for this intriguing plant and is well worth reading. Have a read too of the final paragraph of this very special book, which so well combines scientific monograph with imagination and humour. I quote Dr Prime: "May I end with a picture of an Aroid which despite all the multitudinous variations of the family, nature has not yet evolved? It is Armchairia Comfortabilis, and it was figured by Edward Lear in his Laughable Lyrics (1877). It has an obvious and well developed spathe, and an extremely complicated spadix which consists of a hollowed receptacle above, lined with tri-radiate markings and bearing in front a conspicuously serrate margin." Hopefully there is someone out there who has the technological know-how, and access to a copy of Dr Prime's book or The Complete Nonsense of Edward Lear, who could put this drawing of an armchair arum in a Photobucket to delight us all further? Thanks again Jason, Araceously, Deni Bown +More -----Original Message----- From: aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com [mailto:aroid-l-bounces at gizmoworks.com] On Behalf Of ju-bo at msn.com Sent: 24 November 2007 13:08 To: Discussion of aroids Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroids in Art Dear Jason, Thank you so very much for going to the trouble of getting a photo of the artwork on line so that those of us who have an interest in this sort of ''aroids in art'' can view it---I KNOW that Deni Bown, Steve Marak and several others are also thanking you! What an interesting use of the ''Lorda and Ladies"' legend and motifs! I was also struck by the fact that even the hooded hunting falconet of the right hand of the lady also had its feathers made/drawn of the same ''material'' as the garb of the humans, seemingly Arum leaves! Thanks again, Jason! Sincerely, Julius Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:26:15 +0100 From: "Marek Argent" Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Aroids in Art To: "Discussion of aroids" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original You could take a photo... Marek Argent Well, of course I thought of that; but I've never yet seen a photo successfully come through on Aroid-L. I don't submit photos often enough to have a website of them. I have now set it up on Photobucket, for your viewing pleasure: http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff273/mossytrail/Arum.jpg Jason Hernandez Naturalist-at-Large _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L at www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. The service is powered by MessageLabs. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit: http://www.star.net.uk ________________________________________________________________________

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