EditorialThe English flower garden and home grounds; design and arrangement shown by existing examples of gardens in Great Britain and Ireland, followed by a description of the plants, shrubs and trees for the open-air garden and their culture : Robinson, Willi...
EditorialFlamingo flower, Anthurium scherzerianum. 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, 1867-1868.
EditorialLady's purse or slipper flower, Calceolaria varieties. 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, 1862-65.
EditorialBlanket flower, Gaillardia grandiflora variety. 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, 1857.
EditorialRafflesia horsfieldii (Rafflesia patma). Views of immature parasitic flower. 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...
EditorialTrumpet flower, Incarvillea emodi (Amphicome emodi). 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.
EditorialYellow monkey-flower, Mimulus luteus, with white-edged leaves, foliis albo-marginatis. 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, Ghen...
EditorialOpal flower, Lachenalia aloides var. aloides (Lachenalia luteola). 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.
EditorialGolden trumpet flower, Allamanda nobilis. 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.
EditorialQantuta flower, Cantua buxifolia (Cantua dependens). 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.
EditorialPincushion flower or sweet scabious, Scabiosa atropurpurea. 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, 1857.
EditorialPassion flower, Passiflora penduliflora. 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.
EditorialSweet pitcher plant or red side-saddle flower, Sarracenia rubra. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an E...
EditorialSlipper flower, Calceolaria corymbosa (Glandular-stalked slipper flower, Calceolaria paralia). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by R.K. Greville from William Jackson Hooker's "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinbu...
EditorialGiant canna flower, Canna tuerckheimii (Tall Indian shot, Canna gigantea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865...
EditorialButterfly flower or pinnated-leaved schizanthus, Schizanthus pinnatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by R.K. Greville from William Jackson Hooker's "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-...
EditorialSpiked garland flower or spiked ginger lily, Hedychium spicatum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hooker (1785-1865) was an E...
EditorialBorovitsky apple, Malus domestica, raised in the Taurida Gardens near St. Petersburgh. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts from a botanical illustration by Augusta Withers from John Lindley's "Pomological Magazine," James Ridgway, London, 18...