The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art.

Date:
[1760?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The florist : containing sixty plates of the most beautiful flowers regularly dispos'd in their succession of blowing. To which is added an accurate description of their colours, with instructions for drawing & painting them according to nature : being a new work intended for the use & amusement of gentlemen and ladies delighting in that art. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ■* t r« j _/> X WJH-FtOWER, THE Common Ones 3re Yellow; a, richer Sort, call’d The Bloody IVal, Yellow, ftain’d with Crimfon very deep on the Under-Side of the Petals, and faintly vein’d on the upper. The Cup of the Flower is a purplifh Brown. The Stalk and Leaves a bluifh Green. ; v $9. A C O 1ST I T E. THE Flower is Yellow, furrounded by Leaves of a ftrong Green, ifhe Stalk is Whitilh, ting’d with Brown near the Flower. 59- ting LAURELS T I N A. THE Flower, when open, is White *, but while in Bud, only (hewing the Under-fide of the Petals, is a redilh Brown. The Stalk is alfo a redilh Brown. The Leaves a pieafant Green. 60. HELLEBORE, or CHRISTMAS ROSE. THE Flower is White, ftain’d at the Bale of each Petal with Crimfon. The Buttons a pale Y'ellow. The Stalk is a pale Green, fpotted with Crimfon. The Leaves a ftrong Green. FINIS.