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The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view showing the pair of cedar trees, and the statue of Sloane in the centre of the garden. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: men botanizing in the garden, near the statue of Sir Hans Sloane, 1750. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles after H. G. Glindoni, 1890.

Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale): flowering plant, leaves and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.

The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.

The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank. Wood engraving.

The Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with a boat on the river. Engraving.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751.

Memoirs of the Botanic Garden at Chelsea belonging to the society of Apothecaries of London / by Henry Field.

Reviving the fortunes of an ailing garden / by Jane Owen.

The romance of the Apothecaries' garden at Chelsea / by F. Dawtrey Drewitt.

Index plantarum officinalium, quas, ad materiæ medicæ scientiam promovendam, in Horto Chelseiano, ali ac demonstrari curavit Societas Pharmaceutica Londinensis.

The Chelsea Physic Garden : its history and origin / by the Earl of Morton in collaboration with Sir Donald Allen.

Herbal : the essential guide to herbs for modern living / Deni Bown.

Healing with plants : the Chelsea Physic Garden herbal / written by Holly Farrell.

Catalogus rationalis plantarum medicinalium, in horto Societatis Pharmaceuticae Londinensis, apud vicum Chelsea, cultarum / Curante Jacobo L. Wheeler.

Portraying plants : botanical illustrators at the Chelsea Physic Garden / by Ruth Stungo.

The discovery and development of medicines from plants / Chelsea Physic Garden.

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Herbal : the essential guide to herbs for modern living / Deni Bown.

Healing with plants : the Chelsea Physic Garden herbal / written by Holly Farrell.

Catalogus rationalis plantarum medicinalium, in horto Societatis Pharmaceuticae Londinensis, apud vicum Chelsea, cultarum / Curante Jacobo L. Wheeler.

Portraying plants : botanical illustrators at the Chelsea Physic Garden / by Ruth Stungo.

The discovery and development of medicines from plants / Chelsea Physic Garden.