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Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver

With details of fruit and ten specimens of fruit flies.

Camellia: Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.

Orchid: Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Vexillarium. The Flag-Like Miltoniopsis.

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

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

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

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

Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus

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

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

Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa

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

Ixia Hybrid: African cornflower in a bunch.

Dianthus heddewigh: Red and white minstrels.

Varieties: Variegated Simethus, Bluebells and Starch Grape.

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

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

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

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

Tulips elegans, retroflexa cornuta stenopetalaviridflora persica.

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

Vriesa Fulgida: Hybrid variety.

Mirabelia Meisense: Pink Mirabelia.After Walter Hood Fitch.

Roses: Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.

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

Orchid: Odontoglossum Roseum.

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

Purple and White Valerian.

Pinus Contorta.

Dahlia: Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans

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

Didier’s Tulip: Tulip gesneriana.

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

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

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

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

Horticulture: Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.

Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.

Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.

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

Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.

Nepalese Lily: After Henry Moon.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.

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

Abies Williamsonii.

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

Lily: Lilium Speciosum.

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

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

Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

Golden Shot Wallflower: Erysimum Perofskianum.

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

Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.

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.

Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria

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

Juniperus Occidentalis.

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

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

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

Dahlias: Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.

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

Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.

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

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

Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.

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

Rhododendron: J. Marshall Brooks.

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

Pinus Ponderosa.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.

Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.