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INTRODUCTION by G D Rowley LEMAIRE Iconographie Descriptive des Cactées Introduction to Strawberry Press Edition by Gordon Rowley The study of cacti in particular their naming and identi ?cation has always been heav- ily dependent upon good illustrations As essentially three-dimensional objects cacti cannot be readily preserved in a herbarium as Bradley knew in compiling the ?rst book on succulent plants in and as L ? Héritier also appreciated later in the same century when he turned the attentions of the aspiring ower painter Pierre- Joseph Redouté to these prickly plants especially in need of an illustrator Cactus owers are short-lived and lose many of their recognisable features if dried or pickled One would anticipate therefore a great number of picture books to aid the botanist and plantsman But this is not the case at least not until the age of photography and colour- ?lled co ?ee-table handbooks One reason is apparent to anyone who has ever attempted to draw a wellarmed Ferocactus or Echinocereus A rock-steady hand and total mastery of parallel lines and perspective are called for to produce the type of accuracy demanded by a botanist In the hands of less than a master the result can be mere sti ?ness and an exercise in geometry or worse fuzziness and lack of diagnostic detail During the grand era of orilegia from the time of Ehret and Redouté to the middle of the nineteenth century cacti were little favoured by botanical artists Exceptions were the epiphytes the ? Rat ? s- tail Cactus ? Aporocactus agelliformis and especially the ? Queen of the Night ? Selenicereus grandi orus which could hardly fail to excite any artist especially by the challenge of capturing the huge white bloom at its brief peak of perfection around midnight Many ?ne portraits immortalize this oral beauty from the minutely accurate documentations of Ehret to the romanticised grandeur of Thornton ? s ??Temple of Flora ? Stapelieae were splendidly portrayed in the works of Masson with plates and Jacquin o - with and the mesembs and Alooideae found an able illustrator in Salm-Dyck - Redouté had painted a few cacti for de Candolle ? s Plantarum Succulentarum Historia Plantes Grasses of - although one gets the impression that the artist was more at home with leafy succulents that lent themselves more nearly to the same unexcelled technique he lavished on roses and lilies Other artists successfully captured the unique appeal of cacti making a virtue of the ferocious armature and heightened symmetry of spine clusters and areoles Flowers indeed are revelatory when they appear contrasting in softness and purity with the spines through which they somehow push out unharmed But every true cactus lover knows that owers are just a bonus an additional thrill that can be seen drawn photographed or ?lmed for a brief period each year ??perhaps for just a single day For the rest of the year there is the plant and its own peculiar brand of beauty persists unchanged to