Tableau XX Frame:natural

Tableau XX Frame:naturalPlate 28 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum. Historical evidence suggests that the volumes held in the Lindley Library are portion of Louis XVIII's copy of the Flore mdicale, brought to England by Empress Eugnie.

Watercolour on paper of wild flowers

Watercolour of Viola tricolor flowers and leaves by Caroline Maria Applebee

Martynia and Narcissus from G D Ehret's self published Plantae et Papilione

Watercolour of Ipomoea pandurata (Indian potato) by Sydenham Teast Edwards

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

1757-1774)

Watercolour by William Hooker of The Scarlet Bueree Pear This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' which were commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Ipsea speciosa by the artist Harmanis de Alwis Seneviratna from a bound volume of 'Cingalese Drawings'

a work bound in two volumes produced by an unidentified French artist c

Rosa rubiginosa (rose)

Hand coloured engraved plate from the first volume of Jacob Christian Schaeffer's 'Histor Fungorum' which depicts the varieties of Agaric fungus

blossom and leaves