Crompton's Sheba Queen Frame:gold

Crompton's Sheba Queen Frame:goldWatercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of the gooseberry Crompton's Sheba Queen. Taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit.

Hand coloured proof print of Rhododendron dauricum var

Hand-coloured engraved illustration of a Primula sort described as Willett's Duke of Cumberland

by Lilian Snelling

Watercolour of Eucryphia × nymansensis and Fuchsia 'Mount Stewart' by Graham Stuart Thomas

Ink drawing of Clematis cirrhosa var balearica by Graham Stuart Thomas

published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

He was among the first botanists to adopt the Linnean system of classification

Illustration of trees from Boehmer & Co's catalogue of Japanese plants

The Album contains 28 colour plates of vegetable varieties by Ernst Benary which are named in the accompanying page in German

Figures of rare and curious quadrupeds

Plate from Josiah Conder's book 'The flowers of Japan and the art of floral arrangement' depicting people in traditional dress viewing maple trees in a garden setting

The work is undated but was painted at 'Southover' Burwash