Portlandia grandiflora LIB0036345Watercolour on vellum illustration of Portlandia grandiflora by Margaret Meen dated 1789.
Printed illustration of a chrysanthemum variety 'Nishiki no Mihata' taken from the Japanese publication A Hundred Chrysanthemums by K Hasegawa
Applebee was born in London in 1799 and appears to have been the daughter of a wealthy middle-class family that had conservatories and greenhouses
A chromolithograph plate of Tomato varieties taken from the Album Benary
Roberts was appointed by the RHS in 1897 to paint Orchids
Colour woodblock print of Iris Yedo-Jiman from the catalogue of the Yokohama nursery of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi
Watercolour of Cucumis melo (Cantaloupe Melon) by Pierre François Ledoulx
Engraved plate depicting plants identified as Ceratocephalus
Watercolour illustration of Calceolaria 'John Innes' by artist Lilian Snelling
Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Benincasa hispida (Chinese winter melon) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912
Colour plate depicting Linnaean classification dated January 1
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
there is evidence to suggest that towards the end of the 19th Century they began to trade collectively as one company
