Erica × darleyensis 'Bert' LIB0035189

Erica × darleyensis 'Bert' LIB0035189

Watercolour on paper by an unidentified Chinese artist depicting a White Eye feeding on Prunus blossom

The publication contains 144 colour plates of flowers with some including insects and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orléans

Watercolour by William Hooker of The Scarlet Bueree Pear This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' which were commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Watercolour by Barbara Cotton of the apple 'Minshul Crab'

a collection of 15 hand coloured engravings produced between 1748 and 1759

The Dry Garden in summer at RHS Garden Hyde Hall

Colour woodblock print of Iris Kokinran from the catalogue of a Yokohama nursery which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Silene vulgaris (bladder campion)

Campanula rotundifolia (harebell)

Watercolour of Anemone blanda (winter windflower) by Caroline Maria Applebee

Watercolour of Hibiscus rosa-sinensis flowers and leaves

This is taken from an album of 25 original drawings of flowers which include un-coloured dissections of the flowers and seeds beneath the main illustration