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Pigeons Frame:noneWatercolour on silk of scene with pigeons in a tree by an unknown chinese artist.

Platycladus orientalis (eastern arbor-vitae) and Viscum album (mistletoe) by Caroline Maria Applebee painted c

Taken from volume I of 'Regne Vegetal' which contains botanical drawings by at least four identified artists

russoi 'Reverchoni' (peony)

A chromolithograph plate of Sugar or Edible Podded Pea varieties taken from the Album Benary

Watercolour of Cucumis melo (Cantaloupe Melon) by Pierre François Ledoulx

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Rosa × odorata from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

The warrants displayed on the cover denote that Carters supplied seeds and bulbs to members of the Royal Family at this time

Illustrated plates from a Victorian childrens book 'The Alphabet of Flowers' published by John Dicks of 313

dated 1789

Rubus fruticosus

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