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Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge, histoire, usages et symbolisme ... / par Charles Joret.
Joret, Charles, 1839-1914.Date: 1897-1904- Books
Plant science : an introduction to world crops / Jules Janick [and others].
Date: [1974]- Books
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Ausländische Kulturpflanzen in farbigen Wandtafeln mit erläuterndem Text / nach Hermann Zippel ; neu bearbeitet von Otto Wilhelm Thomé ; zeichungen von Karl Bollmann.
Zippel, Hermann.Date: 1899-- Books
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The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants. Containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication; with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnæus; in English, and Latin. To each description is added, a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom. The whole executed by Henry Andrews, author of the coloured engravings of heaths, in folio.
Andrews, Henry Charles, active 1799-1828.Date: 1797 [-1814?]- Books
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Catalogue Latin et François des plantes vivaces, Qu'on peut cultiver en pleine Terre, pour la Decoration des Jardins a L'Angloise, & des Parterres; auquel on a joint la Liste des Plantes nouvelles, quise trouvent representees dans le grand Jardin de L'Univers. Par M. Buc'hoz, Medecin-Botaniste de Monsieur, Frere du Roi, & ancien Demonstrateur de Botanique du Jardin Royal des Plantes de Nancy.
Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph, 1731-1807.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]- Books
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An alphabetical enumeration of the plants contained in the Hortus kewensis, with additions from Dr. Coyte's Botanic garden, and the Hortus cantabrigiensis. By John Willmott, Junr.
Willmott, John, 1775-1834.Date: [1798]- Pictures
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A plant (Watsonia rosea): flowering stem and leaf. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27264i- Books
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New and rare beautiful-leaved plants : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd.
Date: 1870- Pictures
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Barbados snowdrop (Zephyranthes tubispatha): flowering plant and floral segments. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27268i- Books
New and rare beautiful-leaved plants; : containing illustrations and descriptions of the most ornamental-foliaged plants not hitherto noticed in any work on the subject / by Shirley Hibberd, Esq.
Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890.Date: 1870- 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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The English flora: Or, A catalogue of trees, shrubs, plants and fruits, natives as well as exotics, cultivated, for use of ornament, in the English nurseries, greenhouses and stoves, arranged according to the linnăn system; with the Latin trivial, and common English names, and an English index referring to the Latin names. Also a general catalogue of seeds, for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, grass-lands, &c. usually raised for sale, and those annually imported from America. By Richard Weston, Esq; author of The universal botanist, &c.
Weston, Richard, 1733-1806.Date: MDCCLXXV. [1775]- Books
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Publishing by subscription, Steele's essay upon gardening. Containing a Catalogue of most of the Exotic Plants at this Time cultivated in the Stoves and Green-Houses of the British Gardens,-The Plan of an elegant capacious Stove with the latest Improvements,-The best Method of Planting the Hot-House Vine,-A Description of proper Earths for keeping in high Preservation every tender Exotic,-Observations on the History of Gardening, And,-A Contrast of the Antient with the Modern Taste. By Richard Steele, of Thirsk, in the County of York.
Steele, Richard, active 1793.Date: 1792]- Pictures
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A Chinese plant known as "Ju": stem with leaves. Watercolour.
Reference: 22597i- Books
Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalization : with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.
Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896.Date: 1884- Books
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A catalogue of seeds and hardy plants. With Instructions for Sowing and Planting. Containing Their Latin and English Names, Culture, Times of Flowering, Colours of Flowers of the most ornamental Kinds; With Remarks, shewing, Which are the tallest Growers, and tenderest Kinds. Seeds of Kitchen-Garden Roots Page 1 Seeds of Sallad Herbs and Greens 1 Garden Beans and Pease 4 Kidney or French Beans 5 Seeds of Medicinal Herbs 5 Seeds of Grasses, &c. 5 Seeds of Annual Flowers 6 Seeds of Biennial Flowers 8 Seeds and Plants of Perennial Flowers 10 Bulbous and Tuberous Flower Roots Page 16 Seeds and Plants of Tall Deciduous Trees 19 Seeds and Plants of Deciduous Flowering Shrubs 21 Seeds and Plants of Ever Green Trees and Shrubs 24 Frailing Shrubby Plants 26 Fruit Trees 27 By John Webb, Seedsman, At the Acorn, near Westminster Bridge, London.
Webb, John, seedsman.Date: MDCCLX. [1760]- Pictures
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Seven flowering plants, all species of the genus Penstemon. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27212i- Pictures
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Tea plant (Camellia sinensis): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22082i- Books
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Chronological history of plants : man's record of his own existence illustrated through their names, uses, and companionship / by Charles Pickering.
Pickering, Charles, 1805-1878.Date: 1879- Books
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Vegetable substances used for the food of man / [Edwin Lankester].
Lankester, Edwin, 1814-1874.Date: 1832- Books
Select extra-tropical plants readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalisation : with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.
Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896.Date: 1880- Books
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Select extra-tropical plants : readily eligible for industrial culture or naturalization, with indications of their native countries and some of their uses / by Baron Ferd. von Mueller.
Mueller, Ferdinand von, 1825-1896.Date: 1885- Pictures
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An orchid (Catasetum bungerothi N.E.Brown): flowering plant. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 20503i- Pictures
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A large aloe plant (Aloe species). Photograph.
Reference: 28160i