Tableau XV Frame:black

Tableau XV Frame:blackPlate 15 from J L M Poiret's book Lecons de Flore depicting flower types printed or painted on vellum. Historical evidence suggests that the volumes held in the Lindley Library are portion of Louis XVIII's copy of the Flore mdicale, brought to England by Empress Eugnie.

Watercolour on paper of Dahlia pinnata by Sydenham Teast Edwards

1757-1774)

Watercolour on paper by an unidentified Chinese artist depicting a White Eye feeding on Prunus blossom

seeds and sapling growth of Acer platanoides (Norway maple)

Plate 13 from J L M Poiret's book 'Lecons de Flore' depicting seed and flower casings printed or painted on vellum

Quercus (oak tree) in woodland

Engraved plate depicting plants identified as Ceratocephalus

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of unidentified cherry

Front cover of Carters' Winter and Spring Flowers catalogue

Founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth the nursery relocated in 1869 when Franz Ludwig Späth (1839 - 1913) became manager

Belgian born Redouté achieved success as a painter working for the French royal court as a tutor to Marie Antoinette and later from 1798 was appointed to paint the flowers of Malmaison by Josephine Bonaparte

Watercolour on paper depicting a passion flower and butterfly taken from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn