'Rosier de Candolle' Type:art print

'Rosier de Candolle' Type:art printColour engraving of 'Rosier de Candolle' by P. J Redout from 'Choix des plus belle fleurs' published in 1827. The publication contains 144 colour plates of flowers with some including insects and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orlans.

Platycladus orientalis (eastern arbor-vitae) and Viscum album (mistletoe) by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Erythronium hartwegi

This is taken from Jekyll's sketchbook held in the Lindley Library which contains designs and sketches of gardening subjects and architectural features by the famous horticulturalist

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of 'Chassilas Musque' grapes

Plate 15 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

Platanthera cubitalis: 19

Watercolour on paper of Tagetes (marigold) from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

intermedia (peony) by Lilian Snelling

J Redouté from 'Choix des plus belle fleurs' published in 1827

He was among the first botanists to adopt the Linnean system of classification

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Benincasa hispida (Chinese winter melon) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

Front cover of the 1871 nursery catalogue of Wheeler & Sons