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Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.

Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Seven garden plants, including a fuchsia and monkey flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Wattle (Acacia sp.) flowering stem with a blue locust and a faggot caterpillar emerging from its nest. Coloured aquatint by W. Hooker after J. Forbes, 1779.

Seven British garden plants, including a fig: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

Seven garden plants, including two orchids and a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.

Seven garden plants, including an iris: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Egyptian gum arabic (Acacia nilotica): flowering stem with separate seed pod. Coloured lithograph after M. A. Burnett, c. 1842.

Seven British garden plants, including a cardoon: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.

Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

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Seven garden plants, including a Cape jasmine: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Seven garden plants, including two orchids and a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.

Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Seven garden plants, including an iris: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.

Seven garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.