Have you ever seen this type of
1910s French Hygienic Ozonator Lamp by Roubleff? It is the precursor of the French Lampe Berger as we probably all know by now. This one is still complete, with its original stone and wick and it is in beautiful pressed glass. On the bottom it shows the Roubleff mark. A very rare piece of antique for the collector, in perfect condition. Available at my Zen Cart powered on line Boutique:
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Beautiful pressed glass and as said, in perfect condition.
Screw on cap.
Different angle...
Detail of the original stone catalytic and its mesh.
Roubleff mark pressed into the glass in a circle on the bottom of the lampe.
Pressed mark reads: LAMPE DE L’OZONATEUR SYSTÈME ROUBLEFF
French pamphlet with Roubleff lampe at the top.
Being sold here is also a similar Roubleff lampe.
Sorry Sold Out...
Similar screw on caps seen here above at: Musée LAMPE BERGER
- As promised yesterday, now I like to show you our Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum in Our Garden, here in Georgia/USA.
- We're having heavy thunderstorms right now, so the weather for the garden is great. Not for blogging, as I accidentally hit the Publish button instead of Save... scared I would loose it all when the power could go off. Never mind; thanks to God for lots of rain!
- Following photos are from our July blooms of the Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum in our garden.
- They are of the Amaryllidaceae familly. There are supposed to be varieties that originated in South America and also in South Africa.
- The link South Africa and Indonesia is a very logic one, since both countries belonged to The Kingdom of The Netherlands.
- Lots of Javanese people were brought to South Africa from Indonesia, to cultivate the fields as they were very adept and natural gardeners.
- With that, of course plants and bulbs have gone back and forth as well. Enjoy our Indonesian species of fragrant white Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum:
- This is the reward, a gorgeous showcase of fragrant white blooms!
- My husband Pieter did dig them up and planted them in a huge planter.
We also have provided an avid collector, Patrizia Ianne, in Bassano del Grappa, Italy with some plants.
- Pieter did dig up some young plants complete with bulbs and leaves, from this very planter, and we sent them via FedEx 2nd day air, to Patrizia Ianne's friend in San Francisco.
- That friend did travel to Italy for Christmas so she could carry them with her.
- Imagine; from Wonosobo, Indonesia to Dublin, Georgia and via San Francisco to Bassano del Grappa in Italy.
- We hope that hers did as well as ours this year.
- Last year they barely survived with the extreme heat and drought, that's the reason my husband had to dig them up in order to save them.
- Here they are adjacent to the make-shift plastic greenhouse for not quite hardy plants in planters during winter. It is to the side of our green house.
- This is how the wavy leaves look like and how the plant starts budding out...
- Thanks to natural rain, they look super healthy!
- Raindrops always look special on any plant. This is a large planter with yummy potting soil and one can tell that they look happy!
- FIVE blooms on one stem!
- Wonder how their siblings in Bassano del Grappa, Italy turned out this summer...
- Same stem only two and a half hours later...
- We did have another batch of them mid August...
- Flowers last only one day so you have to make your photo in time for capturing the beauty.
- Hope you enjoyed these fragrant Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum and their history.
Do any of you keep Amaryllis in the garden?
Related links:
{Our Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum in Wonosobo, Indonesia} | previous post by me
{Heavenly Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum} | previous post by me
{New Heavenly Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum} | previous post by me
{Our Tropical Patio with Orchids in Indonesia} | previous post by me
- Yesterday I showed you our large fixed planter box on the patio of the house in Wonosobo, Indonesia.
- I've also pointed out the green leafed plant in the center, to the right. Well, that is our treasured Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum. Let me introduce it to you here...
- Heavenly fragrant Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum...
- We found them adjacent to our home in Indonesia and when we carefully dug them up, we found they were bulbs. So those bulbs we treasured and had them in that fixed planter box.
- Sure enough they did cross the oceans with us, will show you in our next post how they did here.
- Their sweet fragrance is indeed heavenly!
- In the bright tropical sunlight it is not easy to take great photographs...
- They have multiple blooms and than another repeat.
- You can see the planter box here.
- The leaves of the Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum are rather broad and a bit weavy.
- Below are two links from 2010 and 2011 where they bloom in our garden here in Georgia, USA.
- Will show you again some great blooms from this July.
- Hope you enjoyed this exotic and rare fragrant bulb!
- Wish I could reproduce its fragrance for you...
Related links:
{Heavenly Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum} | previous post by me
{New Heavenly Hippeastrum Fragrantissimum} | previous post by me
{Our Tropical Patio with Orchids in Indonesia} | previous post by me
