 After about 1835 Joseph Wood's interest in architecture gave way to his other passion, botany.Many years earlier, he had completed a study of the genus "Rosa", which had been published in the "Transactions of the Linnean Society" in 1818 under the title "Synopsis of the British Species of Rosa" and established Woods’ reputation as a systematic botanist.leaving architecture to one side, he was now able to devote himself more fully to botany and his botanical notes, made during his Continental and British travels, were published in the "Companion to the Botanical Magazine" in 1835 and in 1836, and in successive volumes of "The Phytologist" beginning in 1843.