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Floral bouquet, with some lilies. Engraving by N. de Poilly, ca.1660, after himself.
Poilly, Nicolas de, 1627-1696.Date: 1660Reference: 20321i- Pictures
A young woman posing wearing a low cut gown, with a flower arranged in her decolletage.
Oricelly, J.Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 529626iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Pictures
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A women's ward in an unidentified hospital, with elaborate decorations. Photograph.
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A French liqueur label illustrated with a beautiful garden. Lithograph by E. Goy, 19th century, after G. Brunner.
Brunner, Georg, 1804-1882.Reference: 25724i- Pictures
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Two floral designs, perhaps for woven silk fabric. Etching, c. 1760, after J. Pillement.
Pillement, Jean, 1728-1808.Date: Pubd. accordg. to Act of Parlt. 12 July 1760Reference: 20495i- Pictures
A headshot of a young woman wearing a low cut gown and holding a flower arranged in her decolletage.
Oricelly, J.Date: [approximately 1900]Reference: 529625iPart of: The Fallaize Collection.- Books
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The beauties of Flora display'd: or, Gentleman and Lady's Pocket Companion to the Flower and Kitchen Garden: On an Entire new plan. With a catalogue of seeds Necessary for each of them. Containing A Concise and Methodical Description of the Heights and Colours of upwards of Two Hundred different Flowers: Particular Directions for Sowing and Management, and singular Arrangement of each Sort of them, so as to have those of near equal Heights by themselves, and that no two Flowers should be seen together of the same Colours, nor that any one Kind should be hid by the other, but should at one View paint the whole Garden with a most agreeable and pleasing Variety, and set forth the great Profusion of Nature with very little Trouble. Also under the English Name of each Flower, is affixt its Latin one, for the more agreeable Amusement of the Curious. With Seven Plans on Copper-Plates, shewing the Nature and Design of the Work, and the Position of the Flowers when growing. With a short Sketch of the most desirable Situation of a Pleasure Garden. Also is placed under the Articles of the Kitchen Garden Catalogue, an essential and concise Method of Culture. Seeds arranged after each other nearly suitable to the Times of Sowing; the general Quantity necessary for different Proportions of Ground: the Choice of Soil and Situation; and Advice for laying out a Kitchen Garden both for Convenience, Utility, and Neatness. By N. Swinden, Gardener and Seedsman, at Brentford-End.
Swinden, N.Date: M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]- Books
A new and easy method of studying British wild flowers by natural analysis : being a complete series of illustrations of their natural orders and genera analytically arranged / by Frederick A. Messer.
Messer, Frederick A.Date: 1880- Books
Manuel à l'usage de l'aide-infirmière / par Betty McGolrick et Dorothy Sutherland sous la direction de Margaret G. Arnstein.
McBolrick, Betty.Date: 1964- 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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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]- Digital Images
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Acinar tissue - The flowers of diabetes
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China: Manchu women buying flowers for their headdress, Beijing. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1869Reference: 19654i- Books
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The universal gardener and botanist: or, a general dictionary of gardening and botany. Exhibiting in Botanical Arrangement, according to the Linnaean System, The various Genera and Species of Plants, Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, and Fruits, that merit Culture for Use, Ornament and Variety, in the different Departments of Gardening, Plantations, Shrubberies, Nursery, Green-House, Hot-House or Stove, Forcing-House, Hot-Walls, and Hot-Beds: describing the Botanic Classes, Orders, and Characters of the Genera, with General and Specific Descriptions of the Species of each Genus; their respective and general Uses, different Methods of Propagation, and General Culture, in their several Departments. Comprising accurate Directions, according to real Practice, for the Management of the Kitchen-Garden, Fruit-Garden, Pleasure-Ground, Flower-Garden, Nursery, Plantations, Green-House, Hot-House, or Stove, Hot-Beds, Forcing-Frames, Hot-Walls, and Forcing in general. Describing the General Plans and Formation of the several Gardening Districts and Departments, as above; with distinct Arrangements, and general Descriptions of the various tribes of Plants, Trees, Flowers, and Fruits, adapted to each different Department; and Explanations of the proper Situations, Exposures, Soils, Manures, Composts, various Garden Materials, and principal Utensils; together with full Directions for performing all the Practical Operations of Gardening in general, both in the various Methods of Propagation and Culture of the numerous Plants, and in the Management of every Garden District, and the various relative Plantations. By Thomas Mawe and John Abercrombie.
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1797- Books
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The gardener's pocket dictionary; or, a systematic arrangement of trees, shrubs, herbs, flowers, and fruits; agreeable to the Linnæan method: ... By John Abercrombie, ...
Abercrombie, John, 1726-1806.Date: 1786- Books
Thoreau's wildflowers / Henry David Thoreau ; illustrated by Barry Moser ; edited by Geoff Wisner.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862Date: [2016]- Books
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The farmer. Comprehending the several most interesting objects and beneficial practices in the culture of wheat, rye, Barley, Oats, Buckwheat, Peas, Beans, Tares, Rape, Hemp, Flax, Weld, Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes, Cabbages, Clover, Lucerne, Saintfoin, &c. &c. &c. With the Application and Value of their Products, &c. Together with the Cultivation of Hops, Vines, Forest Trees, Fruit Trees, Kitchen and Flower Garden Productions. Likewise, directions in the breeding and improvement of horses, oxen, Cows, Calves, Sheep, Lambs, and Hogs; With Remarks for Purchasing, Feeding and Disposing of them to greatest Advantage; and the Methods of Preventing and Removing their most fatal Disorders. Also, rules for the treatment and rearing of poultry, viz. Pheasants, Turkeys, Geese, Fowl, Tame Rabbits, Pigeons, &c. And the ordering of bees, and their Labors. To which is prefixed, an introductory essay, calculated to give a clear and perspicuous view of the theory of agriculture, and its Progress from earliest Antiquity to the present Time. By Josiah Ringsted, Esq; Author of the Cattle Keeper's Assistant, or Complete Directory for Country Gentlemen, Sportsmen, Farmers, Graziers, Farriers, Game and Cow Keepers, Horse Dealers, Carriers, &c. and a Diary, containing Tables for the easier Arrangement of the Accounts, of the Business of Gardening, Cattle Keeping, Game Keeping, &c. &c.
Ringsted, Josiah, -1812.Date: [1781?]- Books
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Zoological gardens of the world : Reference list : August 1, 1914 / S.S. Flower.
Flower, Stanley Smyth, 1871-1946.Date: [1914?]- Books
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A botanical guide to the environs of Cheltenham; comprehending a classified arrangement of the indigenous flowers and ferns of the Cotteswold Hills and the Vale of Gloucester. With the habitats of the various plants / by James Buckman.
Buckman, James, 1816-1884.Date: 1844- Pictures
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A Spanish woman arranging her hair with flowers at her dressing table; another woman assists by passing her flowers. Coloured lithograph after H. Leloir.
Leloir, Héloïse Colin, 1820-1873.Reference: 31211i- Pictures
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A courtesan arranging a flower in her hair. Gouache painting by an Indian artist, 1800s.
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Flower books and their illustrators : an exhibition arranged for the National Book League / by Wilfred Blunt.
National Book League (Great Britain)Date: [1950]- Books
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Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns arranged according to natural orders / By Charles C. Babington.
Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.Date: 1843- Books
Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns arranged according to the natural orders / [Charles Cardale Babington].
Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.Date: 1847- Books
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Manual of British botany, containing the flowering plants and ferns / arranged according to the natural orders by Charles Cardale Babington.
Babington, Charles C. (Charles Cardale), 1808-1895.Date: 1881