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Horticulture: Peach House. 1. Ground plan 2. transverse section of the underground works 3. upper section.

Tulips elegans, retroflexa cornuta stenopetalaviridflora persica.

Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.

Unicorn or Bindweed Hawk Moth, sphynx tillae and the Guernsey Lily, amarylis sarniensi.

Varieties: Variegated Simethus, Bluebells and Starch Grape.

Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.

Dahlias: Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.

Petiveria (Pigeonberry): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Juniperus Occidentalis.

Orchid: Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.

Orchid: Vanda tricolor var., Vanda tricolor formosa, Vanda insignis Helveola and Mitonia spectabilis. After Augusta Withers.

Palms (Attalea): Martinezia truncata, Euterpe andicola and Euterpe Haenkeana with Guaranins hunting with bow and arrow.

Palm Tree: Scarce. Royal Palmeto with text. From one of the earliest works on Barbados.

With details of fruit and ten specimens of fruit flies.

Verbascum (Mullein): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Rhoddeia: Capt. Champion’s Rhoddeia. After Walter Hood Fitch.

Lily: Kaffir Lily, Schizostylus Coccinea and Autumn Zephyr Lily, Zephyranthes Candida.

Pinus Contorta.

Pansies: Pelargoniums. 3 Varieties. The Pope, Alice, and Emperor William.

Chelone (Turtlehead plant): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans

Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.

Cotton plants: Two types, Jack-fruit and Li Chi.

Dahlia: 1 Variable 2 Sir Robert Peel 3 Harris’s Inimiable 4 Levic’s Incomparable.

Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa

Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria

Orchid: Debrobium nobile and Thyrsacanthus Schomburgkianus. After Augusta Withers.

Chrysanthemum Indicum: 1 Early Crimson 2 Quilled Orange 3 Quilled White

Purple and White Valerian.

Horticulture: Pineapple House (Pinery). 1. Ground plan 2. longitudinal section with young plants 3. transverse section 4. mason work 5. carron register 6. transverse section of

Mirabelia Meisense: Pink Mirabelia.After Walter Hood Fitch.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.

Primrose: Round-headed mealy primrose. After Walter Hood Fitch.

Poppy: 1 Oriental 2 Alpine 3 Orange Red 4 Common Welsh 5 Large-flowered Prickly 6 Canadian Blood root 7 Cordate-leaved Macleaya

Banana Tree. Scarce. Banana with detail of blossom. From one of the earliest works on Barbados.

Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.

Sophora (Sun King): With detail of the flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Horticulture: Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.

Roses: Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Vexillarium. The Flag-Like Miltoniopsis.

Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.

American Panax (Ginseng) and Soloman’s Seal (Polygonatume).

Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.

Trillium Erectum (Solanium) and Solidago (Grande de Consolide).

Iris: 1 Chalcedonian 2 Florentine 3 Nepal 4 Three toothed 5 Spring.

Delphinium( Larkspur): 1 Mr Barlow’s 2 Muntain 3 Variable Bee 4 Mr Menzies’s 5 Azure

Vriesa Fulgida: Hybrid variety.

Ledum (Kalmia): Two flowering branches with detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Plantain Tree. Scarce. Plantain in blossom with fruit. From one of the earliest works on Barbados.

Didier’s Tulip: Tulip gesneriana.

Melanthium (Bunchflower): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Begonia Canada and Privet branch with purple berries (Troene).

Maple Branch with red flowers (Erable) and American Potato bean (Apios).

Chrysanthemums: La Gitana, Trophée, François and Fleurette. After Augusta Withers.

Queen Flower (Bird of Paradise): Set in a romanticized landscape. Native to South Africa, it was brought to the Royal Botanic Gardens in the 1780s.

Bush Allamanda: Hothouse flowers, Allamanda Schottii and Stephanotis floribunda. After Augusta Withers.

Persian Iris, iris persica and Wild Arrach, astriplex hatata with a Sword grass Moth, phalaena lucae.

Palm: Date Palm Phoenix dactylifera: Men harvesting the fruit. With text in French.

Rhododendron: J. Marshall Brooks.

Lily: Lilium Speciosum.

Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus

Pinus Ponderosa.

Tulips: Single Early Tulip. Yellow Prince with variegated foliage.

Camellia: Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.

Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver

Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.

Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.

Peony: 1 Edulis Superba 2 Common Garden 3 Fine leaved 4 Hybrid 6 Russ’s Crimson

Sweet Briar Rose, rosa englanteria and Wild Rose Moth, phalaena lacertenaria.

Red Ranunculus, ranunculus asiaticus and White Thorn or Hawthorn, crataegus oxyacantha with Bluebells and a Brimstone Moth, phalena crataegate.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Roseum.

Telekia: 1. Showy Teleckle 2 Glandulous Elecampane 3 Silphium trifoliatum 4 Ratibida columnaris 5 Pinnated Rudbeckle 6 Three lobed Rudbeckle 7 Tripartite leaved Golden Crown

Nepalese Lily: After Henry Moon.

Ixia Hybrid: African cornflower in a bunch.

Dahlia: Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.

Tulips: La Triomphe, Louis XVI, Duchess of Devonshire, General Washington, Earl Spencer, La Majestieuse and Gloria Mundi.

Lily: Lilium lancifolium album and Lilium lancifolium roseum. After Augusta Withers.

Horticulture: Training and Grafting.1. One year pruned 2. Second year 3. Third year trained 4. Cleft Grafting 5. Mixed Grafting 6. Extreme grafting.

Dianthus heddewigh: Red and white minstrels.

Indigofera (Indigo): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.

Golden Shot Wallflower: Erysimum Perofskianum.

Horticulture: Forcig Frame and Grapery. 1,2. angles of altitude and elevation of roof 3, 4 .Forcing Frames 5. grapery in Barnstaple 6. grapery back wall.

Dianthus: 1. Pictee Emmeline 2 Picotee Princess Frederick, 3 Bijon de Clement carnation 4 Prince de Nassau carnation

Echinacea: 1. Common purple Rudbeckle 2 Various leaved Echinacea 3 Dickon’s Echinacea 4 Late flowering Purple Rudbeckle.

Orchid: Cattleya eldorado. White oweni and pink lindeni varieties.

Ranunculus, Black Thorn, Columbine, White bells and a Spotted red and white underwing Moth.

Abies Williamsonii.

Lycium (Boxthorn): With detail of flower and key in Latin. Title heightened in gold.