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  • Four female torsos joined at the waist with garden features as heads; symbolising the four seasons in a garden. Etching by T. B., c. 1797.
  • Flora, seu de florum cvltvra lib. IV / [Giovanni Battista Ferrari].
  • Eight plants, including an orchid, a magnolia and a cactus: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids and an iris: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Flora, seu de florum cvltvra lib. IV / [Giovanni Battista Ferrari].
  • Flora, seu de florum cvltvra lib. IV / [Giovanni Battista Ferrari].
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a fuchsia: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Flora, seu de florum cvltvra lib. IV / [Giovanni Battista Ferrari].
  • Seven plants, including an Australian honeysuckle: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Seven British garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
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  • view Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
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    Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

    | Date: 1834 | Reference: 27454i
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    Three flowering cultivars of stocks (Matthiola species). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.

    | Date: 1890 | Reference: 25350i
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    Of gardens. Four books / First written in Latine verse by Renatus Rapinvs. And now made English by J[ohn] E[velyn the younger].

    Rapin, René, 1621-1687 | Date: 1673
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    Flora: seu, de florum cultura. Or, a complete florilege, furnished with all the requisites belonging to a florist / In III books. By John Rea. [-Ceres. The second book.-Pomona. The third book].

    Rea, John, -1681 | Date: 1665
  • view Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
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    Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.

    | Date: 1837 | Reference: 27398i
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