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  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea physic garden
  • The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a view towards the river showing the cedars by the wall. Lithograph by H. Warren after J. Fuge.
  • The Chelsea Physic Garden, London: two men at work in a laboratory drying and sorting seeds for research on medicinal herbs. Photograph, 1921.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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: 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.
  • Bee keeping at Chelsea Physic Garden, London. Close-up of bees at honeycomb tray. Insect members of the superfamily Apoidea, found almost everywhere, particularly on flowers. Their young are fed honey and pollen rather than animal food. Honey is collected in the form of nectar from flowers and concentrated into honey by evaporation. For most people bee stings are of little significance and are treated locally; other persons, however, react with hypersensitivity putting them in serious danger.
  • Terracotta bust of Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the Chelsea Physic Gardens.
  • Autumn crocus (Colchicum autumnale): flowering plant, leaves and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • 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 Physick Garden, Chelsea: viewed from the Surrey bank with a boat on the river. Engraving.
  • 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 river, showing water gate, mooring posts and steps. Wood engraving by W. J. Palmer.
  • Artemisia annua (Sweet wormwood)
  • Artemisia annua (Sweet wormwood)
  • Platanus orientalis subsp insularis
  • Mandragora officinarum (Mandrake)
  • Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis): flowering stem, fruit and floral segments. Engraving with etching, c. 1828, after J. Hart.