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Directions for bringing over seeds and plants, from the East Indies and other distant countries, in a state of vegetation: together with a catalogue of such foreign plants as are worthy of being encouraged in our American colonies, for the purposes of medicine, agriculture, and commerce. To which is added, the figure and botanical description of a new sensitive plant, called Dionoea muscipula: or, Venus's fly-trap / By John Ellis, F.R.S.

Horse chestnuts (Aesculus hippocastanum L.): seeds (conkers) and their shells, with a poem about them. Etching with drypoint by A. Taiée after himself, c.1875.

Rye (Secale species): plant stems with seedheads. Watercolour.

A stone fruit tree, possibly a plum (Prunus species): fruiting branch and seed. Watercolour.

Two plants, a fruiting clematis with separate seeds and a plant with blue fruits. Watercolour.

Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem with sectioned leaf and many floral segments. Coloured engraving by J. Miller, c. 1771.

HDRA's heritage seed programme / Henry Doubleday Research Association.

Borneo camphor tree (Dryobalanops aromatica): flowers, leafy stem and sectioned seed. Coloured zincograph, c. 1853, after M. Burnett.

Men lie sleeping under a tree; one sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching by F. Keller after J.F. Overbeck.

Men lie sleeping as a man sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching.

For a positive outlook : help yourself with Bach original flower remedies / Nelsonbach.

Chemical examination of kô-sam seeds (Brucea sumatrana, Roxb.) / by Frederick B. Power and Frederic H. Lees.

Les biotechnologies au service de la production végétale / [directeurs de la publication, Jeanine Goacolou et Etienne Perdrizet ; maquette et fabrication, Jean-Yvon Laviec].

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For a positive outlook : help yourself with Bach original flower remedies / Nelsonbach.

Two plants, a fruiting clematis with separate seeds and a plant with blue fruits. Watercolour.

Chemical examination of kô-sam seeds (Brucea sumatrana, Roxb.) / by Frederick B. Power and Frederic H. Lees.

Men lie sleeping under a tree; one sows seeds; representing the biblical parable of the sower. Etching by F. Keller after J.F. Overbeck.

Les biotechnologies au service de la production végétale / [directeurs de la publication, Jeanine Goacolou et Etienne Perdrizet ; maquette et fabrication, Jean-Yvon Laviec].