EditorialFlower fairies of horse chestnuts, Aesculus hippocastanum, depicted as horses with foliage mane and tail, and groom in livery. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Walter Crane from A Flower Wedding, Cassell, London, 1905.
EditorialHorse chestnut or conker tree, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by P. Haas from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharmaceutical bo...
EditorialHorse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Icones plantarum medicinalium," Germany, 1796. Zorn (1739-99) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe searching for medicinal pl...
EditorialHorse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of Natural History), Augsburg, 1811. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) w...