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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.

Nepalese Lily: After Henry Moon.

Cowslip: Common Cowslip. Primula ver

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

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

Pinus Contorta.

Orchid: Odontoglossum Roseum.

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

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

Orchid: Giant-flowered dendrobium. Dendrobium formosum.

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

Orchid: Odontoglossum Alexandrae (Crispum). Curled odontoglossum.

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

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

Pelargonium: Scarlet Geranium: Geranium inquinans.

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

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.

Vriesa Fulgida: Hybrid variety.

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

Dahlia: Cactus Dahlia Yuarezi.

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

Riverbank Lupin. By Miss Drake.

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

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

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

Mullein: Great Mullein. Verbascum Thapsus

Melanthium (Bunchflower): With detail of 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.

Madame Henry Jacotot petunia and Salvia tricolor.

Purple and White Valerian.

Fern from Plaisance Bay and American Cypress branch.

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

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

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

Juniperus Occidentalis.

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

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

Varieties: Variegated Simethus, Bluebells and Starch Grape.

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

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

Mirabelia Meisense: Pink Mirabelia.After Walter Hood Fitch.

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

Mammoth Bamboo in a woodland.

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

Palms (Attalea): Astrocaryum Chonta, Maximiliana princeps and Cocos botroyophora with Bolivians and thatched house.

Dalmatian Toadflax. By Miss Drake.

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

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.

Pinus Ponderosa.

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

Camellia: Augustina superba and Caryophylloides. After Augusta Withers.

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

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

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

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.

Ixia Hybrid: African cornflower in a bunch.

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

Musk mallow. By Miss Drake.

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

Sambak (Jasmine): With Semsem (Sesame) and Abelmosch (Hibiscus).

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

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

Dianthus heddewigh: Red and white minstrels.

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

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

Orchid: Odontoglossum Vexillarium. The Flag-Like Miltoniopsis.

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

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

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

Tulips elegans, retroflexa cornuta stenopetalaviridflora persica.

Golden Shot Wallflower: Erysimum Perofskianum.

Miirabilis: Marvel of Peru. Mirabilis Jalappa

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

Lysimachia Bulbifera: Bulb-Bearing Loosestrife.

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

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

Dahlias: Coccinea, Lutea, Paragon and Glabrata.

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

Caryphyllius pleno, 3 variations and Caryphyllius dimidia

Lily: Lilium Speciosum.

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

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

Horticulture: Greenhouse, circular conservatory and common conservatory.

Roses: Celine Forestier, Monsieur Boncenne and La France.

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

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

Rhododendron: J. Marshall Brooks.

Marigold: Glittering Fig Marigold. Mesembryanthemum micans

Didier’s Tulip: Tulip gesneriana.

Kniphofia: Red Hot Poker. Aletris uvaria

Mammoth Aloe in the Hills.

Abies Williamsonii.