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This page represents only a small part of our collection of original Antique prints of Flowers, plants and trees. Please click on an image to see it in high-resolution, with details of the work itself.  For enquiries and purchases, please do contact us.

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

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

Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.

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

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

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

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

Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.

Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.

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

Didier’s Tulip: Tulip gesneriana.

Ixia Hybrid: African cornflower in a bunch.

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

Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus

Riverbank Lupin. By Miss Drake.

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

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

Mirabelia Meisense: Pink Mirabelia.After Walter Hood Fitch.

Vriesa Fulgida: Hybrid variety.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Vexillarium. The Flag-Like Miltoniopsis.

Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

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

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

Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.

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

Varieties: Variegated Simethus, Bluebells and Starch Grape.

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

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

Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.

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

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

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

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

Orchid: Odontoglossum Roseum.

Juniperus Occidentalis.

Rhododendron: J. Marshall Brooks.

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

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

Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver

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

With details of fruit and ten specimens of fruit flies.

Horticulture: Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.

Golden Shot Wallflower: Erysimum Perofskianum.

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

Dahlia: Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.

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

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

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

Tulips elegans, retroflexa cornuta stenopetalaviridflora persica.

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

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

Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.

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

Lily: Lilium Speciosum.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.

Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.

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

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.

Abies Williamsonii.

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

Purple and White Valerian.

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

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

Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa

Orchid: Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.

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

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

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

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

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

Camellia: Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.

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

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

Pinus Ponderosa.

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

Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans

Nepalese Lily: After Henry Moon.

Roses: Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.

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

Pinus Contorta.

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

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

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

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

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

Dianthus heddewigh: Red and white minstrels.

Dahlias: Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.

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

Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.