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  • The Royal Botanic Society. Sketch of proposed additions to large conservatory.
  • The Royal Botanic Society. Sketch of proposed additions to large conservatory.
  • Design for the laying out of the grounds of the Royal Botanic Society.
  • The gouty Prince Regent being helped on to his horse by Chinese assistants using an elaborate contraption outside the Chinese pagoda in Kew Gardens. Coloured etching attributed to Charles Williams, 1816.
  • Joseph Arnold. Pen drawing by C.J.W. Winter, 1849.
  • Joseph Arnold. Pen drawing by C.J.W. Winter, 1849.
  • Sir John Hill (above); and the White House at Kew (below). Engraving by G. Vendramini, 1799, after F. Cotes 1757.
  • Sir John Hill (above); and the White House at Kew (below). Engraving by G. Vendramini, 1799, after F. Cotes 1757.
  • Centaurea hypoleuca 'John Coutts'
  • Magnolia 'Black Diamond'
  • Sarcococca hookeriana var digyna
  • Platanus orientalis subsp insularis
  • Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale): flowering plant, leaves and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Heuchera 'Silver Scrolls'
  • Stokesia laevis Greene Asteraceae. Stoke's Aster, Cornflower Aster. Distribution: South-eastern USA. Named by Charles Louis L’Héritier in 1789 for Dr Jonathan Stokes (1755-1831), a member of the Lunar Society and Linnean Society, botanist and physician. Stokes dedicated his thesis on dephlogisticated air [later realised to be oxygen] to Dr William Withering and wrote the preface to Withering’s iconic work On the Foxglove (1785). He also contributed histories on six patients he had treated for heart failure (‘dropsy’) with foxglove leaf, Digitalis, in his medical practice in Stourbridge. He continued at the Lunar Society until 1788
  • Onychium japonicum 'Dali'
  • Rudbeckia cultivar
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Zinnia cultivar
  • Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink Beauty'
  • Brugmansia suaveolens'Pink Beauty'
  • Astrantia major 'Hadspen Blood'.