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...
EditorialTochinoki or Japanese horse chestnut, Aesculus turbinata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
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...
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.
EditorialTochinoki or Japanese horse chestnut, Aesculus turbinata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialRed buckeye or firecracker plant, Aesculus pavia, native to the United States. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, an...
EditorialHorned curassow, Pauxi unicornis, critically endangered, and bottlebrush buckeye, Aesculus parviflora 2. Pauxi, Pavier. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pi...
EditorialHorse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
EditorialHorse chestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcoloured woodblock engravings from James Main's Popular Botany, Orr and Smith, London, 1835. James Main (1775-1846) was a Scottish gardener, botanist and writer.
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...
EditorialTochinoki or Japanese horse chestnut, Aesculus turbinata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialHorsechestnut, Aesculus hippocastanum. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (1775~1840) wa...
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...
EditorialRed buckeye or firecracker plant, Aesculus pavia, native to the United States. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Engraved by Corsi, drawn by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, an...
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...