EditorialDwarf pink carnations, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicer's Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557. This from a 17th century pirate edition or atlas of illustrations only, with caption...
EditorialCarnation hybrid, Pride of Great Britain, Dianthus caryophyllus. Yellow variety of the Souvenir de la Malmaison. Chromolithograph by P. de Pannemaeker after an illustration by A. Goossens from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1894.
EditorialCommon carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus (Garofoli salvatichi, Garofano salvatico). Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattioli's Discorsi di P.A. Matthioli ne i sei libri dell...
EditorialCarnation varieties, Dianthus caryophyllus. Drawn and chromolithographed by Pieter de Pannemaeker from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1888.
EditorialClove, Caryophyllus aromaticus. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialClove pink or carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from James Smith's English Botany, London, 1794.
EditorialCarnation hybrid, Louis Napoleon, Dianthus caryophyllus. 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.
EditorialCarnation variety, Oeillet remontant, Souvenir de la Malmaison, Dianthus caryophyllus. 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...
EditorialClove pink or carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialCarnation or clove pink cultivars, Dianthus caryophyllus. 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.
EditorialCarnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was...
EditorialGroup of Carnations, Dianthus caryophyllus varieties: Palmer's Defiance, Davey's Defiance, Duchess of Dorset, Duchess of Wurtemberg, Caustin's British Monarch, and Princess of Wales. Painted by Henderson, engraved by Maddox. Handcoloured stipple copper...
EditorialFlower head of a variegated pink Picotee carnation and double laced Pink carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, with petal 3 and empty calyx 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from James Maddock's "The Florist's Directory," London, John Harding, 1810. Ne...
EditorialCarnation or oeillet flower fairy, Dianthus caryophyllus, with hair of petals and dress of leaves and flowers, attended by butterflies and caterpillar. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville...
EditorialFlower head of a variegated scarlet bizard carnation and variegated crimson bizard carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus, with tied calyx 2 and empty calyx 3. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from James Maddock's "The Florist's Directory," London, John Ha...