Anna is amazing, Summer Rayne Oakes did a tour with her, entirely different. She basically knew Joey would like the weird stuff and Summer would like the house plant stuff.
Sounds like she enjoyed your interaction, such a cool bunch of old books! Nice field trip Joey, thanks for taking us along. There's obviously more older ladies following you than just me, who'd a thought 🤔
I so love your educated enthusiasm describing the specimens you are looking at, it’s the icing on the cake while seeing them. I do wish this was much longer…thank you ! 🤗🌿
Mattioli, author of the herbal at (0:56) was permitted to experiment on galley slaves using Aconitum (wolvesbane). When a colleague criticized one of his publications Mattioli ratted on him to the Inquisition. The pages in these 400 year old herbals are surprisingly tough as the paper is made of recycled linen fibers, not the acidic wood pulp that arrived centuries later.
Hi Joey. Every year I taught Ethnobotany I took my students to the herbal collection at the library of the Missouri Botanical Garden, I taught my students to call Mattioli, the Plant Nazi. Why not return to Saint Louis and I will give you the tour including the florilegia by Redoute commissioned by Josephine Bonaparte. They also have the complete bound version of Bateman's "Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala" in the original elephant folio size. @@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt
If you ever get the chance to make linen paper its quite a lot of fun, though it probably wasn't 400 years ago as it'd just be another low-paying, pain in the arse job. Takes a lot of skill though to make sure you get just enough on the screen as it floats in the water, the leather was typically Calfskin, which for once is exactly what it sounds like. Hides from very young and sometimes even unborn cattle but you'd sometimes also get goat skins as well if they didn't have cattle depending on were you are in the world at that point in history.
Your enthusiasm was fantastic! I just love it!! And the lady showing you around!! She's pretty great, too! You know you're good when academia watches your show!!
So crazy you were three miles from me! I’ve watched practically every one of your videos since 2020 and most of what I know about the Ithaca flora is from watching your channel. I go to Ithaca college and I had a massive leg up in evolutionary bio and various environmental science courses from simply absorbing your content. Much, much love.
If you’re at Cornell then drive another 5-6 hours and I’ll show you the remains of Hempstead Plains, a grassland that used to be 40,000 acres but is now like 5. It was the largest grassland east of the Appalachians and now it’s all depressing suburbs and malls.
As someone who lives in upstate NY and has been watching your videos for years, here's me hoping you got to wander around in the woods up here so I can crib some native plants to try and collect seeds from
I'd totally love to go on a few long plant finding expeditions with you! Talk about making botany accesible and exciting! I've always been excited by plants.
Academia can live up to its Ivory Tower reputation but special collections like this and other archives usually love getting enthusiastic respectful people in, boosts the numbers, helps them when the budget cuts come down from on high. (Also beats the boredom of repetitive paperwork and answering email bullshit.) People underestimate how much it costs to keep that much stuff in (special acid-free) boxes in racks like that, all climate controlled, not to mention the insurance and the salaries for trained professionals. "Why don't you just digitize it all and throw it out" makes me want to strangle people. So thanks for doing your part in keeping the place running, hope Anna can show this vid to her bosses at the next budget meeting.
The curator of the herbarium of prestigious Cornell university actually watches a foul mouthed Chicago delinquent's vids on YT. You finally hit the big time, Tony.
Check out the Iroquois Treaty. Pre-Columbians grew an organized 'garden/landscape' here. EVERY plant was planted ON PURPOSE is specific patterns. Blue was pathways and harbors. White birch was north, ,east was yellow birch, south was red maple and west was black cherry (the bark). Other plants of all varieties were similarly color coordinated.. The patterns created living supports for buildings, even ovens. You could always walk from one fire to the next along a easy route. Travel on the rivers was free and open to all. You are in the heart of local culture since before the ice age ended The Louisiana Purchase started here.. peace and love work well here
The Iroquois landscape design system you tell of sounds very interesting but I can not find anything about it on-line (except for the 3 sisters planting set). Would you please provide specifics on a book or Google search that would enable further exploration of what you have temptingly described?
@@maryasproyerakas139 (I'm not OP, but I do live in the area) You're probably going to have ask actual historical or cultural societies. Google is too poisoned with SEO and I don't know if any of this has been written down/published yet.
The illustrations in all of these books and even more recent ones are WAY WAY better than photographs or images. When I want to identify something accurately, I always rely on one of my books that are full of diagrams and paintings. Google isn't really all that useful for plant I.D.
brings back fond memories of when I had enough spare time when working for the Durban Parks Department to spend many hours in the Natal Herbarium doing research. in fact only today I mentioned to my partner that I needed to take a very spectacular Chlorophytum species to the herbarium to identify to check if it has been collected before and has been named.
Hey Tony, I gots to tell you, this is just between you and me, OK? Cool. I was told by a friend at a library, who will remain anonymous at this time, a rather dark truth they prefer not to broadcast. One of the reasons many very old books are not openly displayed is they were sometimes bound in human leather.
Parasitic plants are weird looking and can stand out because of that. I came across some bear corn ( Conopholis americana) earlier this year and tasted it. It was mildly astringent and bitter.
To the odd person stumbling in and taking you too seriously: the typos are Middle English spellings And that's cool as shit the curator watches your content!
Your field experience + decades old collection materials is an eye opening cross pollination of Botanical knowledge wealth. Always worth tagging along.
Yuccas in gardens - are sadly overlooked considering the fact that one variety of them can overwinter in the cold cruel north climates. That one produces a profusion of little white flowers that cover a broomstick style, 6' tall stem radiating from the center of the main plant. The plant looks like a christmas tree in july. A word of caution though, once planted, hard to get rid of.
What a well-traveled dog! I got to see Louie live in person at Tony's talk in lower Manhattan a couple of days ago. I hope the airlines treat her well.
Hey Joey! You should come to Minneapolis, MN and check out our MN School of Botanical Arts. You can learn to draw the plants yourself and so much more!
The only thing better would be if we'd keep areas sequestered specifically to keep these in their native habitats as living, breathing agrariums and seed banks for the future, instead of making more parking lots and shit. Also that guy needs to wear archivists gloves when he's handling those fucking old books god damn it.
They did that back then in the german language, too. Added some random characters and others that looked the same. So reading was more guessing since they also use old words...fun stuff.
Funny, that dino barnadesioids at 8:55 was collected in a highly fossiliferous Upper Cretaceous strata that preserve plenty of dinosaur fossils, coincidence? I think not 🤔
Baboons are not very polite visitors. We were down in the Cape, once, and the local troop came through the garden, and one of them was looking like intending to go into the kitchen to hijack the place, and never mind the humans outside the back door. So my uncle makes an aggressive, mock-I'm-gonna-clobber-you motion toward one who's too close to house-invading - just like you'd do if the monkeys were coming through, and were getting a bit too bold, to scare them off when necessary. Baboon just looks at him all puzzled. Like it's thinking, "What? Do you want me to bite you or something? ... But why would you want me to bite you? That doesn't make sense." Baboons are not easily intimidated by humans just waving fists at them. Humans have tiny little canine teeth. Baboons have bigger canines than all but the biggest dogs do. It's even not a great idea to threaten certain monkeys. As soon as they figure out that they've got bigger, sharper teeth than you, and that you're a bit slow and clumsy, they don't fall for bluff and threats. If you give them food, it's even worse. If you give a monkey food, obviously you're weak, and you're submitting - otherwise why would you give up your food like that? I've seen a monkey approach some Swedish tourists who had oranges (on the islands above Vic Falls). With 20:20 hindsight, I'm pretty much certain that those monkeys knew humans were weak and clumsy (because they always submit to the threat displays of the monkeys, and surrender their food). The Swedish tourists thought they'd share their oranges nice and fairly with the oh-cute!! monkeys, and the head monkey said (by body language), "I told you to give me the whole damn orange, not just a few little pieces", to one of the Swedes, but the Swede tried to keep his fair share of the orange. So the monkey gave him a bite, made him drop the orange, and then once they'd robbed everyone and the screaming had stopped, things calmed down. If a baboon did that to you, you'd need the Casualty section of the hospital, for sure.
So, after calling the rangers to stop mowing endangered species they have continued to mow it in a "preserve". Today I tried administration in person and dropped off seed that was rapidly falling. I remember the disregard in Texas and am not letting that happen here on my watch. Not sure I have much recourse beyond them. Maybe call the state capital? Any suggestions?
