Images Dated 23rd January 2023

Famous Railway Trains
Scottish Express leaving King's Cross Date: 1930s

Famous Railway Trains
Waterloo-Bournemouth Express Date: 1930s

Trichopilia marginata orchid, native to Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. Imported by Veitch and Sons nursery. As Trichopilia lepida

Men and women's rubber heel tips that were easily fixed to the shoe. Date: 1904
Men and women's rubber heel tips that were easily fixed to the shoe. Date: 1904

Humboldt's lily cultivar, Lilium humboldtii var. Punctatum
Humboldt's lily cultivar, Lilium humboldtii var. Punctatum. Variety cultivated by William Bull

Hybrid perpetual rose, Empress of India. New crimson rose cultivar sold by William Paul and Sons nursery of Cheshunt

Double-flowering Chinese primula, Primula praenitens
New variety of a double flowering Chinese primula, Primula praenitens. Sold by William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. Double Chinese primula, as Primula sinensis-fimbriata punicea-pleno

Breynia disticha, native to New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Ornamental foliage plant imported by William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Phyllanthus nivosus

Phragmipedium longifolium var. longifolium, orchid native to Costa Rica and Ecuador. Discovered by Benedikt Roezl on the banks of the river Dagua, Columbia. Raised by Messrs

Vriesea platynema, bromeliad native to the West Indies and South America. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Encholirion corallinum

Hyacinth cultivar, Anna, raised by Messrs. Veitch and Son nursery of Chelsea

Rhododendron cultivar, Duchess of Edinburgh. Hybrid of R. Princess Royal and R. lobbii, raised by Veitch and Sons of Chelsea

Very graceful dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium gratiosissimum. As Dendrobium boxallii. Originally named for plant hunter William Boxall of Low and Co. Nursery of Clapton

Mountain flax or wharariki, Phormium colensoi, native to New Zealand. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Phormium colensoi-variegatum

Spiderwort or dayflower, Cochliostema odoratissima, native to southern Nicaragua and Ecuador. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea

Harrison's amaryllis, Hippeastrum vittatum
Harrison's amaryllis, Hippeastrum vittatum. Found in Lima, Peru, by William Harrison and imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Amaryllis vittata var. harrisoniae

Kramer's lily, Lilium japonicum var. japonicum
Kramer's lily, Lilium japonicum var. japonicum. A new variety of Japanese lily supplied by Messrs Kramer of Yokohama. As Lilium krameri, Lilium kramerianum

Taro, Colocasia esculenta. Imported from the East Indies by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea

Billbergia saundersii, bromeliad native to Brazil, named for the Swedish botanist Gustav Johan Billberg. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea

Red disa orchid, Disa uniflora
Red disa or pride of Table Mountain orchid, Disa uniflora. Imported from the Fransborck mountains, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, by William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea

Majestic croton, Croton majesticum. Codiaeum variegatum. Imported from the South Sea Islands (Indonesia, Malaysia) by the nursery of William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea

Gladiolus cultivar, Neogenes, hybrid developed by Kelway and Sons nursery, Langport, Somerset

Cat-face orchid, Huntleya burtii. Exhibited by Mr. A. Murrell, gardener to W. B. Home of Winterton, Great Yarmouth. As Batemannia burtii

Geranium aralia or wild coffee, Polyscias guilfoylei
Geranium aralia or wild coffee, evergreen shrub native to the tropics, Polyscias guilfoylei. Imported by William Bull nurseryman. As Aralia guilfoylei

Famous Railway Trains
London Express leaving Brighton station Date: 1930s

Famous Railway Trains
LNER Dominion of Canada Date: 1930s

Famous Railway Trains
LNER Cock o the North Date: 1930s

Famous Railway Trains
Brighton Belle Date: 1930s

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