TAB III, Album I Type:art printA Chromolithograph plate of Borecoles or kales and Brussels Sprouts varieties taken from the Album Benary, 1876. The Album contains 28 colour plates in total of vegetable varieties by Ernst Benary which are named in the accompanying page in German, English, French and Russian.
'Regne Vegetal' was compiled by Baron Joseph van Huerne and originally bound as a set of 4 albums
Watercolour by Barbara Cotton of the Peach 'Titon de Vernes'
russoi 'Reverchoni' (peony)
Printed illustration of a chrysanthemum variety 'usu Sakura' taken from the Japanese publication A Hundred Chrysanthemums by K Hasegawa
Watercolour of Jasmine leaves and blossom by an unidentified Chinese artist
Watercolour by William Hooker of the Morello Cherry fruits
published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine
Watercolour on vellum illustration of Portlandia grandiflora by Margaret Meen dated 1789
Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of Pear varieties taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit
Founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth the nursery relocated in 1869 when Franz Ludwig Späth (1839 - 1913) became manager
One of 486 colour engraved plates from Pierre Joseph Redouté's book Les Liliacees
seeds and sapling growth of the Hornbeam
