Pla Nts Collection

Mushrooms Larousse 1913
A large number of mushroom varieties, with helpful information on which ones are edible, poisonous, or suspect

London Pride & Gold. Rod
SAXIFRAGA URBIUM (LONDON PRIDE) and SOLIDAGO VIRGAUREA (GOLDEN ROD) depicted with various butterflies

Countryside Flowers and Butterflies
Red Admiral and Peacock Butterflies amid a mass of vegetation including berries, rosehips, ivy and holly

Plants / Humulus Lupulus
HOP

Poisonous Plants
Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Belladonna); Thorn Apple (Datura Stramonium); Henbane (Hyoscyamus Niger); Mezereon (Daphne Mezereum); Fools Parsley (Aethusa Cynapium);

Wardian case with plants
A Wardian case, containing several plants

Plants / Atropa Belladonna
DEADLY NIGHTSHADE

Plants / Galanthus Nivalis
Snowdrop Depicted with Leucajum Aestivum : Snowflake

Camellia Sinensis (Tea)
or THEA SINENSIS branch of a TEA PLANT

Hamemalis Mollis (Witch Hazel)
Hamemalis (or Hamamelis) Mollis (Witch Hazel), a large shrub or small tree of the Hamamelidaceae family, native to areas of China

Plants / Algae
FRESH-WATER ALGAE various species

Plants / Primula Auricula
BEARs EAR (from the shape of its leaves) variants Gem and King of the crimsons

Copernicus / Solar System
The solar system according to Copernicus where Earth rotates daily on axis and, with other plants, revolves around the Sun

Galanthus Cluster
a cluster of living SNOWDROPS (one of many species)

Tropical plant and orchid house
Cross-section view of a tropical plant and orchid house

Gardens at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, Sussex
View of the gardens at Gravetye Manor, near East Grinstead, West Sussex, showing daffodils growing in the foreground, and the Elizabethan manor house in the background

Connaught Gardens at Sidmouth, East Devon
View of Connaught Gardens at Sidmouth, East Devon, with an array of flowers in flowerbeds, with trees in the background

Rosa Banksiae Lutea (Lady Banks Rose), of the Rosaceae family, native to China. It has white or pale yellow flowers

Kerria Japonica (Japanese Yellow Rose), a shrub of the Rosaceae family with bright yellow flowers, native to China, Japan and Korea

Cattleya Trianae Mrs Phillips, also known as Flor de Mayo (May Flower) or Christmas Orchid (Orchidaceae family), with pink, purple and yellow colouring

Moroccan Harem - three women of the Harem seated on a fine carpet with a young child and surrounded with lush plants and octagonal Mother-of-pearl inlaid table and comfortable cushions

Ceres / Demeter Crane 1889
CORN PERSONIFIED - WHEAT (triticum) - BARLEY (hordium) - RYE (secale cereale)

Saint Clare
CLARE OF ASSISI tending to plants

Poisonous Plants
Water Hemlock (Cicuta Virosa); Conium Maculatum; Digitalis Purpurea; Cypress Spurge (Euphorbia Cyparissias); Pasque Flower (Anemone Pulsatilla); Autumn Crocus

Flowers of July & August
Flowers of July and August

Crocus and Snowdrops
Colchicum (Crocus) and Galanthus (Snowdrop)

Plants / Dianthus Barbatus
Sweet William, or Bearded Pink

Plants / Campanula Medium
CANTERBURY BELL

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn Poppy, or Corn Rose Poppy, or Field Poppy

Plants / Papaver Rhoeas
Corn or Field Poppy

Plants / Triticum Vulgare
EARS OF WHEAT

Woman & Aspidistra Photo
A woman in an enormous hat festooned with plumes & fabric sits in the garden outside her door. She rests her arm upon a small, 3 legged table on which stands an aspidistra in a pot

Plants / Tulipa Whittallii
TULIPA WHITTALLII An orange tulip

Two girls with their chickens
Two sister with their chicks circa 1880

Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, Hertfordshire
View of Tewin Water House and Tewin Water, at Digswell, Hertfordshire, with a host of golden daffodils in the foreground

Compton Acres Gardens at Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset
View of Compton Acres Gardens in the village of Canford Cliffs, near Poole, Dorset. Bright pink flowers can be seen through an archway with a wrought iron gate

Rosa Padre, a hybrid tea rose of the Rosaceae family. Seen here in close-up, showing two bright pink flowers and a bud

Plants / Lilium Tigrinum
TIGER LILY

Window Gardening
A Victorian woman sits in a comfortable armchair reading a book, proud of her verdant display of plants decorating a large window

Horticultural Society conservatory, Chiswick, London
People inside the large conservatory (or greenhouse) of the Horticultural Society at Chiswick, west London

Japanese Arrangement - 1
CHERRY and IRIS a Spring arrangement

Dutch Girl & Tulips
A Dutch girl in traditional dress picks tulips near a canal, with the obligatory windmill and barge in view

Dandelion Clock & Prayer
A dandelion clock is used as a metaphor for measuring your life by loss and not by gain

Varieties of mushrooms
Varieties of mushroom, the two poisonous items are labelled in green

Myosotis Alpestris
Alpine Forget-Me-Not

Cypripedium Cardinale
LADYs SLIPPER ORCHID one of several species

Atomic Power Predicted
Atomic power plants predicted

Convolvulus & C. Bell
Pink CONVOLVULUS (Bindweed) & blue & white CAMPANULA MEDIUM Canterbury Bell) depicted with bees

Plants / Fragaria Vesca
WILD STRAWBERRY

Clematis Montana Rubens, a hardy climbing plant of the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, with pink flowers

Taraxacum Officinale
(var. palustre) COMMON DANDELION

Plants / Urtica Dioica
Common Nettle or Stinging Nettle

Fossil trees in coal mine
Fossilised trees and plants found in a coal mine. Date: C.1870

Reginald Malby, photographer
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society. Seen here in a head and shoulders portrait with a pipe in his mouth

Reginald Malby working in his garden
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, working in his garden

Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree) in blossom
Prunus (Flowering Cherry Tree), laden with bright pink blossom

Shortia Galacifolia (Oconee Bells, Acony Bell), a rare American wildflower of the Diapensiaceae family. It has white flowers. Seen here growing in a plant pot

Samoan Women - Making Kawa-Kawa. Kawakawa is one of the most distinctive Pacific native plants

Black Swan
A very stylised airbrush painting by Malcolm Greensmith depicting a mysterious-looking Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) serenly swimming across dark, still waters, dark

Plants / Viola Odorata
SWEET VIOLET

Tulipomania Satire 1637
Satire on Dutch tulipomania

Animals and plants of the Carboniferous era
European landscape, with animals, during the Carboniferous Era

Darwin / Greenhouse / 1882
CHARLES DARWIN Greenhouse at his home in Downe, Kent, where the naturalist conducted his research

Plants / Viola Pedata
Cut-Leaved Violet, or Bird s-Foot Violet, or Crowfoot Violet

Decorative Roses
A decorative arrangement of roses with other flowers

Plants / Helleborus Niger
BLACK HELLEBORE or CHRISTMAS ROSE used to cure mental afflictions since 1400 BC

Poppies Daisies
Wild flowers: poppies, daisies and cornflowers

Roses in a Basket
A decorative arrangement of roses in wicker basket

Plants / Narcissus Species
Masses and masses of daffodils

Honeymoon taxi / W H Robinson
The best man need no longer grovel under back axles to attach boots and horseshoes etc

Plants / Crocus Sativus
SAFFRON

Plants / Oenothera Biennis
EVENING PRIMROSE

Plants / Centaurea Cyanus
Blue Bottle, Cornflower

Bougainvillea spectabilis visited by butterflies Date: circa 1840

Gardens at Tewin, Hertfordshire
View of gardens at the village of Tewin, near Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, showing many shades of tulips growing in an open, grassy area

Reginald Malby with a giant camera in his garden
Reginald Malby (1882-1924), official photographer to the Royal Horticultural Society, using a giant camera in his garden at Woodford, Essex

Dunira, Perthshire, Scotland
A lovely view of Dunira in Perthshire, Scotland, showing trees and a heather-covered hill from across a stretch of water

TEASEL Cardere sauvage

Rosemarinus Officinalis
Rosemary Personified

Plants / Allium Ursinum
RAMSONS, a species of GARLIC

Plants / Cichorium Intybus
Chicory, or Succory

Plants / Ophrys Apifera
BEE ORCHID

Mushrooms Walsh 7-11
Varieties of mushroom: the three poisonous items are labelled in green

Plants / Ilex Aquifolium
HOLLY

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