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Hong Kong: Botanical Gardens and Albany, looking south from Government House. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Jardin des Plantes, Perpignan: bird's eye view. Line engraving by F.D. Née, 1786, after L.N. de Lespinasse after Margoüet.

Botanic Garden, Oxford: panoramic view of the greenhouses with a small ornamental detail of the gates and plans. Line engraving by J. Skelton, 1820, after B. Green.

Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.

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

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

Hong Kong: Botanical Gardens, looking east from the lowest terrace. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

A gnu and two goats in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Lithograph by the brothers Lambert after Huet fils.

Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].

Collins guide to the botanical gardens of Britain / Michael Young.

Botanicheskie sady︠ T︡Sentralʹnoĭ Evropy / A.V. Astrov.

A catalogue of the Aburi Gardens : being a complete list of all the plants grown in the Government Botanical Gardens at Aburi, Gold Coast, West Africa, together with their popular or local names, uses, habits, and habitats / prepared for the Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics, by A.E. Evans.

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Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].

Collins guide to the botanical gardens of Britain / Michael Young.

Botanicheskie sady︠ T︡Sentralʹnoĭ Evropy / A.V. Astrov.