Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus LIB0002238Colour printed, hand finished stipple engraving entitled Althea Frutex : Hibiscus Syriacus, engraved by Joseph Marie Bessin (1765 ?) after an original by Pierre Joseph Redout (1759 1840). From P. J. Redout's Choix des plus belles fleurs, published in parts (each part containing four plates) in Paris from 1827 to 1833. Plate 4.
Watercolour of Rosa 'Buff Beauty' and Rosa × odorata 'Mutabilis' by Graham Stuart Thomas
seeds and sapling growth of Acer platanoides (Norway maple)
Watercolour of Eucryphia × nymansensis and Fuchsia 'Mount Stewart' by Graham Stuart Thomas
Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of the gooseberry Crompton's Sheba Queen
is illustrated with 23 hand coloured plates
Colour woodblock print of Iris Tanporo from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi
Watercolour on paper of Rosa canina (dog rose)
Sowerby from the book 'The Ferns of Great Britain' by Charles Johnson
Hypericum linarifolium (small upright St John's wort) painted at various sites in Tunbridge Wells by Lilian Snelling
Watercolour entitled Rosa Chinensis by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c
The work is undated but was painted at 'Southover' Burwash
dragonfly and small beetle