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Dictionary of cultivated plants and their centres of diversity excluding ornamentals, forest trees, and lower plants / A.C. Zeven and P.M. Zhukovsky.
Zeven, A. C.Date: 1975- Books
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The botanical magazine; or, Flower-Garden Displayed: in which the most ornamental foreign plants, cultivated in the Open Ground, the Green-House, and the Stove, are accurately represented in their natural colours. To which are added, their names, Class, Order, Generic and Specific Characters, according to the celebrated Linnaeus; their Places of Growth, and Times of Flowering: together with the most approved methods of culture. A work Intended for the Use of such Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gardeners, as wish to become scientifically acquainted with the Plants they cultivate. By William Curtis, Author of the Flora Londinensis. Vol. I.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]-1803- Books
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Experiments and observations on the vegetation of plants : which shew that the common opinion of the amelioration of the atmosphere by vegetation in solar light, is ill founded / by James Woodhouse.
Woodhouse, James, 1770-1809.Date: [1802?]- Books
The origins of garden plants / John Fisher.
Fisher, John, 1909-1996.Date: 1982- Pictures
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Three ornamental yellow flowers, including a French marigold (Tagetes patula). Coloured lithograph, c. 1843.
Date: [1843-1844]Reference: 24648i- Pictures
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Four ornamental greenhouse flowers, including coral bush (Templetonia retusa). Coloured lithograph, c. 1848.
Date: [1848]Reference: 24647i- Pictures
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An ornamental geranium (Geranium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21972i- Pictures
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A plant (Watsonia rosea): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27264i- Pictures
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Barbados snowdrop (Zephyranthes tubispatha): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27268i- Pictures
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Seven plants, all species of the genus Watsonia: flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27265i- Pictures
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Seven plants, all species of the genus Zephyranthes: flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27269i- Books
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Observations on the poisonous vegetables which are either indigenous in Great-Britain, or cultivated for ornament / By B. Wilmer.
Wilmer, Bradford.Date: 1781- Pictures
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Bird-of-paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae): flower and leaf. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
Reference: 22163i- Pictures
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An ornamental geranium (Geranium species): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 21894i- Pictures
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Seven flowering plants, all species of the genus Penstemon. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27212i- Pictures
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An orchid (Catasetum bungerothi N.E.Brown): flowering plant. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 20503i- Pictures
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An orchid (Phaius albus): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27215i- Pictures
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Four flowering plants, including a toad lily (Tricyrtis species) and a pink (Dianthus species). Watercolour, c. 1870.
Date: 1870Reference: 28553i- Pictures
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A large aloe plant (Aloe species). Photograph.
Reference: 28160i- Pictures
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Seven flowering plants, all species of the genus Phlox. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27230i- Pictures
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Five flowering bulbous plants, all species of the genus Scilla. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27238i- Pictures
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Mignonette plant (Reseda odorata): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22968i- Pictures
Five types of hibiscus plant (Hibiscus species): flowering stems. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27188i- Pictures
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White bryony (Bryonia dioica Jacq.): fruiting stem and separate flower and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18223i- Pictures
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Rockrose (Cistus ladanifer L.): flowering stem and separate floral segments and a description of the plant and its uses. Coloured line engraving by C.H.Hemerich, c.1759, after T.Sheldrake.
Sheldrake, Timothy, active 1740-1770.Date: [1759]Reference: 18224i