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  • Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
  • Four British garden plants: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Maison rustique, or, the countrey farme / compyled in the French tongue by Charles Steuens, and Iohn Liebault ... and translated into English by Richard Surflet ... Now newly reuiewed, corrected, and augmented, with diuers large additions, out of the works of Serres his Agriculture, Vinet his Maison champestre, French, Albyterio [i.e. the 'Libro de albeyteria' of F. de la Reyna] in Spanish, Grilli [i.e. Gallo?] in Italian, and other authors. And the husbandry of France, Italie, and Spaine reconciled and made to agree with ours here in England: by Geruase Markham.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and two hawthorns: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Four British garden plants, including daffodil and rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Four flowering plants: a yellow monkey flower (Mimulus luteus) and three pansies (Viola cultivars). Coloured engraving by J. & J. Parkin, 1833, after C. W. Harrison.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and a lily: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Two cultivars of fuchsia (Fuchsia species): flowers and a leaf. Coloured lithograph, c. 1855.
  • A tropical orchid (Gongora quinquenervis): flowering stem and leaves. Coloured zincograph by C. Rosenberg, c. 1850, after himself.
  • A cultivar of garden pea (Pisum sativum) and of variegated kale (Brassica oleracea acephala). Chromolithograph, c. 1890.
  • Seven plants, including a lupin and peach: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Seven plants, including a slipper flower: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • The gardeners dictionary. Containing the best and newest methods of cultivating and improving the kitchen, fruit, flower garden, and nursery, as also for performing the practical parts of agriculture ... together with directions for propagating and improving from real practice and experience, all sorts of timber trees / by Philip Miller.
  • Three British garden plants, including an orchid: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1838.
  • Seven plants, including two orchids and a poppy: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Nine plants, including three orchids, a phlox and a delphinium: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Four British garden plants, including a paeony and poppy: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • A tropical aroid (Philodendron simsii): spadix, spathe and leaf bases. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after C. Rosenberg.
  • Eight plants, including two orchids and a gesneria: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Four British garden plants, including a phlox: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Seven British garden plants, including a slipper flower: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Four British garden plants, including a delphinium: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven plants, including a paeony, a glory pea and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • A double flowered poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima): flowering stem. Chromolithograph, c. 1876.
  • Seven garden plants, including an orchid and a rhododendron: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1835.
  • Seven British garden plants, including stinking Benjamin: flowering stems and some floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1833.
  • Eight plants, including two mariposa lilies and two orchids: flowering stems. Coloured etching, c. 1834.
  • Seven garden plants, including a lupin and buffalo clover: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1836.
  • Four British garden plants, including grape hyacinth: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.
  • Seven garden plants, including two orchids: flowering stems and floral segments. Coloured etching, c. 1837.