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A Garden Guide - Extracting a Weed from a LawnIllustration 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 FlowerlandDandy Puffs by Margaret Tarrant, from Joan in Flowerland
The Weed GatherersA 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 characterPhotographs 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, RangoonA 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 GARDENERTHE 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 mackerelThree-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 daturaMonkshood, 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 227Coleoptera: 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 marijuanaA 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 StramoniumCommon 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 - AlgeriaHashish 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 1904A 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 weedFinished watercolour by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage across the Pacific, 1768-1771. Illustration annotated Pimalea laevigata
Bird in thistlesA bird in a clump of thistles. Date: circa 1920s
WW2 birthday card, birds and flowers. Date: circa 1942
Botanical Sketchbook -- Silverweed. Date: 1920s
Thurlow WeedTHURLOW WEED American journalist with his autograph Date: 1797 - 1882
Dandy Pianist - a Wow with the Party LadiesBotany - 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-seedIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Hypericum perforatum, St. Johns wortIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Echium plantagineum, salvation JaneIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London
Borreria sp. weedFinished 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, jimsonweedOne of the 36 decorative panels depicting flora that form the ceiling of the North Hall at the Natural History Museum, London
Fucus vesiculosis, bladderwrackIllustration from Botany Library Plate Collection at the Natural History Museum, London. By Leopald Trattinick, 1825
Capillipedium parviflorum, weedWatercolour 238 from the Saharunpore Gardens Collection, c. 1850s. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Persicaria sp. knotweedFolio 47 from A Collection of Flowers (1795) by John Edwards. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London
Arctopus echinatusPlate 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 chamomileIllustration from the Botany Library Plate Collection held at the Natural History Museum, London