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Poisonous, noxious and suspected plants of our fields and woods / by Anne Pratt ; published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
Pratt, Anne, 1806-1893.Date: [1857 or 1866?]- Books
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The gardener's pocket-calendar, containing the most approved methods of cultivating the useful and ornamental plants for the kitchen-garden, flower-garden, and flowering-shrubs; Arranged In Alphabetical Order. To which are added, directions of what is necessary to be done in every month of the year By Thomas Ellis, Gardener to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln.
Ellis, Thomas, gardener.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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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A dictionary of the ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, most commonly cultivated in the plantations, gardens, and stoves, of Great-Britain : arranged according to their generic names, and containing full and accurate descriptions of the different genera and species, with the generic and specific names properly accented : at the end, is a copious index of gardeners and vulgar names, referring to their true titles in the dictionary, and the dictionary to a prefixed compendium of the sexual system, retaining all the circumstances necessary to a competent knowledge of the science of botany, and in which every genus contained in the dictionary is placed under its proper class and order, with its contracted character : chiefly intended for the use of the ladies, but proper for all who wish to amuse themselves with the study of plants, and to pronounce their names with propriety / by Charles Bryant.
Bryant, Charles, -1799.Date: [1790]- 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, will be accurately represented in their natural colours. To which will be 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.
Curtis, William, 1746-1799.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]-1800- 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
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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- Pictures
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Three ornamental yellow flowers, including a French marigold (Tagetes patula). Coloured lithograph, c. 1843.
Date: [1843-1844]Reference: 24648i- Books
The origins of garden plants / John Fisher.
Fisher, John, 1909-1996.Date: 1982- 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- Pictures
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Bird-of-paradise plant (Strelitzia reginae): flower and leaf. Watercolour, ca. 1850 (?).
Reference: 22163i- 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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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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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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An orchid (Phaius albus): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph.
Reference: 27215i- 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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Mignonette plant (Reseda odorata): flowering stem. Watercolour.
Reference: 22968i