Weed Collection

A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a Lawn
Illustration by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) showing a typically convoluted method of weeding a garden lawn. A man is hosted by ropes supported by a teepee configuration of poles worked by

Jimson weed, Datura stramonium. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration by Walther Muller from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant from Joan in Flowerland
Dandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant, from Joan in Flowerland

The Weed Gatherers
A painting which shows some men and women, carrying large bundles of weeds having been gathered from the field, on a warm, sunny day. Date: circa 1916

Photographs of hands holding cigar as indicator of character
Photographs of hands holding cigar, as indicator of character. Captioned, The Flor de Karakta: the cigar as seer: character indicated by the way of holding the ??weed?

Burmese Woman Smokes, Rangoon
A portrait of a Burmese woman smoking a weed in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar). Smoking was an incredibly popular pastime in Burma at the time, with even children starting from a young age

BALLAD / THE GARDENER
THE GARDENER The gardener offers the maiden his flowers, but includes a weed, so she rejects him and foretells his death - the new fallen snow to be your smock Date: traditional

Acid weed or mermaids hair, Desmarestia dresnayi. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Three-spined stickleback and Atlantic mackerel
Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 1, and Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus 2. Gasterosteo o Spinarella piccola, Maccarello comune

Virginia springbeauty, Claytonia virginica. Claitonia della Virginia. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science

Cannabis, Cannabis sativa, and flax, Linum usitatissimum. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Dyers weed or German greenweed, Genista germanica. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Indian tobacco or puke weed, Lobelia inflata. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Dyers rocket or dyers weed, Reseda luteola, Gaude. Handcoloured steel engraving by L. Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr

Dyers weed, Reseda luteola. 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

Monkshood and datura
Monkshood, Aconitum napellus 1, jimson weed or datura, Datura stramonium 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Orchella weed or dyers weed, Roccella tinctoria

Bishops weed or carom, Trachyspermum ammi (Carum ajowan). Handcoloured lithograph by Hanhart after a botanical illustration by David Blair from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimens Medicinal Plants

Curtis British Entomology Plate 227
Coleoptera: Odacantha melanura (Green-and-orange Odacantha) [Plant: Potentilla anserina (Silver Weed)] Date: 1824-39

A boatman steers a shikara boat loaded with animal fodder in the Vale of Kashmir, near Srinagar. The Himalayan mountains can be seen in the distance. Date: 1986

Kashmir - Srinagar. A man paddles a boat loaded with green fodder along weedy canal. Photographed from above looking down Date: 1989

Man with marijuana
A Muslim man holds a bunch of wild cannabis, or marijuana plant in the Kashmir Valley near Srinagar, Kashmir. He wears a kufi Islamic hat and a big smile Date: 1986

Plants / Datura Stramonium
Common Thorn Apple or Thorny Apple of Peru or Devils Apple or Jamestown / Jimson Weed

Eastern skunk cabbage or skunk weed, Symplocarpus foetidus.. Illustration drawn by William Jackson Hooker, engraved by Swan

Kief (Hashish / Maruijana / Cannabis) Smoker - Algeria
Hashish Smoker (or Kif (kef, Kief, keef), Cannabis, Marijuana) - Algeria. Traditionally kief has been pressed into cakes as hashish for convenience in storage and shipping

Four genera of sea-weed. Engraving by James Peterkin, from William Henry Harvey, A manual of British marine algae. Date: 1849

Dandelion / Jugend 1904
A stylized, Art Nouveau depiction of a flower - possibly a dandelion. Date: 1904

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mrs Weed the Gardeners Wife. circa 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Master Weed the Gardeners Son. circa 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Mr Weed the Gardener. circa 1930s

Happy Families Playing Cards - Miss Weed the Gardeners Daughter. circa 1930s

Pimelea prostrata, strathmore weed
Finished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Pimalea laevigata

Bird in thistles
A bird in a clump of thistles. Date: circa 1920s

WW2 birthday card, birds and flowers. Date: circa 1942

Botanical Sketchbook -- Silverweed. Date: 1920s

Thurlow Weed
THURLOW WEED American journalist with his autograph Date: 1797 - 1882

Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party Ladies
Botany - The Dandelion - a florid little man! A wow with all the ladies (up to a point!). A pianist, possibly modelled in part on popular Polish pianist Paderewski? Date: circa 1907

Echinospermum squarrosum, stick-seed
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Hypericum perforatum, St. Johns wort
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Echium plantagineum, salvation Jane
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

Borreria sp. weed
Finished watercolour by unknown artist from an original outline drawing by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771

Datura stramonium, jimsonweed
One of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London

Fucus vesiculosis, bladderwrack
Illustration from Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London. By Leopald Trattinick, 1825

Capillipedium parviflorum, weed
Watercolour 238 from the Saharunpore Gardens Collection, c. 1850s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Persicaria sp. knotweed
Folio 47 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Arctopus echinatus
Plate from Rariorus Africanus Plantarum (1738-1739) by J. Burman, of Type Specimens of plants named by Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)

Convolvulus guinguelobus, binweed

Anthemis cotula, mayweed chamomile
Illustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London

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