Frank N. Meyer Collection

Items in the Frank N. Meyer Collection Collection

Pyrus calleyana, natural size. Neg. No. 13262.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana, natural size. A somewhat small-flowering type of a wild Calleryana pear, with rather tomentose foliage, which isn't full grown yet. Three fruits of last year's crop has…

Pyrus calleryana. Neg. No. 13264.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. A fairly large specimen of a Calleryana pear, found growing brotherly together with a pine tree, Pinus massoniana. Very few trees find pine trees congenial mates, but this…

Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears. neg. No. 13267.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears, only a few feet high, growing in sterile, decomposed porphyrious rock on a badly eroded mountain top, elevation c.a. 2,000 ft. a.s. This photo…

Phyllostachys sp. Drying bamboo paper. Neg No. 13296.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Phyllostachys sp. Drying bamboo paper of the dry sandy and pebbly part of a mountain stream. These oblong squares of paper measure 6 x 8 inches and sell locally at the ridiculously low price of…

Paeonia suffruticosa. A very large specimen of tree peony. Neg. no. 13300.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Paeonia suffruticosa. A very large specimen of tree peony, having 75 flowers of a beautiful blush-rosy color. The plant is between fifty and sixty years of age and tho an old stalk dies off at…

Soya Max. Five pots are filled with broken soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made. neg. no. 13284.

From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Soya Max. The five pots are filled with broken soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made; the pots wholly contain vinegar which is made here from wheat and millet bran. Great heat and great…