Variety of fibres and string - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 62760 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 47.01 CELASTRACEAE Celastrus scandens | Entry Book Number | 24.1924 | |
| Artefact Name | Variety of fibres and string | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Canada | TDWG Region | Canada | ||
| Parts Held | Variety of fibres and string | Geography Description | Canada, Ontario | ||
| Uses | Variety of fibres and stringUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Fugler F, Ministry of Agric, Canada | Donor No | TG 2243 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1924 | Donor Notes | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: Letter accompanying fibres as described below, dated 12.1.1924, from Fugler 1. To the Ministry of Agric, England, Sir, the enclosed fibre is from a plant growing wild on this continent from Quebec to Florida in the east as far west as, Montana. It is free from plant diseases or attack by insects and surviving the most rigorous winter. The coloured fibre is to show it take the dyes. The green fibre and cord picked Jan 1923. White fibre and small cord with wood attached was gathered f, our years ago. Five years ago I took the fibre to the Forestry Dept here and was informed it was an old country plant; the For Dept have been growing it for five years and proved it can be propagated from cuttings and is of rapid growth and is not partic, ular as to soil. If you are interested in this further information will be gladly given by yours respectfully, F Fugler. The experimental growing has been done under the supervision of Prof. Thompson of the Forestry Dept Ontario. Letter dated Windsor,, Ontario Canada, April 3rd, 1924, to the Secretary, Min of Agric. 2. Sir In answer to yours of the 17th March re fibre plant the name is C scandens or Climbing Bittersweet. I have enclosed further samples with a note to each and hope it will help in the, investigation; it is the inner bark of the plant; there are several species not all of which are fibrous. I shall be glad to help in its development. Verified by Mr Boodle as C scandens - see note attached Director asked Ministry for specimens for Museu, m - received 8.v.24. Letters 85, 1924, xv p 179. and 121, 1924, xv p 194. Note from Lab 1.2.24. The specimen sent as possibly a disease is a Coccus insect together with the white cottony fluff produced by the insect. Some pathogenic fungus have been re, corded as growing on C scandens. Label source: Notes attached to each specimen in sample as below a. This was exposed to the weather for some seasons, and was frayed by nature - observe the spiral wood? b. Twigs of climbing bitter sweet. Rope made from, natural frayed fibre - Dec 1918. d. Small bundle of fibre from root and branch. e. Small string from twig - observe proportion of pith to wood - picked Jan 1924. f. The only thing I ever noticed on the plant that might be a disease but Professor Thom, pson of the Forestry Dept of Ontario told me it was Compary? culture. This is also fibrous. Taken from the plant in 1918. | ||||