Tableau LVI. Methode naturelle de M. De Jussieu LIB0017427

Tableau LVI. Methode naturelle de M. De Jussieu LIB0017427Plate 56 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting a Passiflora (passion flower) printed 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 of Ipomoea pandurata (Indian potato) by Sydenham Teast Edwards

Erythronium hartwegi

Plate 15 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum

Watercolour on paper of Malva moschata (musk mallow)

Watercolour of Lilium speciosum (showy Japanese lily) by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Front jacket illustration of the book 'In My Lady's Garden' by the author Mrs I

Illustration of twenty-five American plants

The Album contains 28 colour plates of vegetable varieties by Ernst Benary which are named in the accompanying page in German

Erythronium revolutum Johnsonii Group

This painting forms the centre of a triptych of images that join to form one larger picture

brought to England by Empress Eugénie

Taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit