EditorialWhite Cattleya ? elegans hybrid orchid (Laelia elegans var. alba). Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884.
EditorialWhite Cattleya ? elegans hybrid orchid (Laelia elegans var. alba). Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1884.
EditorialLaelia rubescens orchid. Native to Mexico and Central America. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1851.
EditorialCattleya praestans orchid (Laelia praestans). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1870.
EditorialLaelia lyonsii orchid (Schomburgkia lyonsi). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1874.
EditorialLaelia rubescens orchid (Laelia acuminata). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1845.
EditorialLaelia superbiens orchid. Guatemala. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.
EditorialCattleya crispata orchid (Yellow laelia, Laelia flava). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1842.
EditorialCattleya purpurata orchid (Laelia purpurata). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaire's Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l'Europe, Ghent, Belgium, 1856.
EditorialCinnabar cattleya orchid, Cattleya cinnabarina (Cinnabar coloured laelia, Laelia cinnabarina). Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialTwo-edged laelia orchid, Laelia anceps. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1835. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) drew over 1,300 plates for t...