EditorialShowy penstemon, Penstemon speciosum, three-leaved penstemon, Penstemon triphyllum, Dr. Scouler's penstemon, P. scouleri, and broom-leaved penstemon, Penstemon pruinosum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Ja...
EditorialShewy delphinium, Delphinium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by M. Hart from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1832.
EditorialFuchsia-flowered gooseberry or shewy gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1833.
EditorialShowy Indian cress, Tropaeolum speciosum. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialIndian or sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of ...
EditorialGreat dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo elegant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore...
EditorialLatin American lady orchid, Stenorrhynchos speciosum (showy neottia, Neottia speciosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hook...
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker after an illustration in The Garden from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1895.
EditorialShewy dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium speciosum, native to Australia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1833. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) ...
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, Nelumbium speciosum, Nelumbo elegant. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lebrun after a botanical illustration by Edouard Maubert from Pierre Oscar Reveil, A. Dupuis, Fr. Gerard and Francois Herincqs La Regne Vegetal: Flore...
EditorialShowy penstemon, Penstemon speciosum, three-leaved penstemon, Penstemon triphyllum, Dr. Scouler's penstemon, P. scouleri, and broom-leaved penstemon, Penstemon pruinosum. Handfinished chromolithograph by Henry Noel Humphreys after an illustration by Ja...
EditorialSacred bean or Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialShowy lily, Lilium speciosum. Chromolithograph from an illustration by Desire Bois from Edward Steps Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse, Frederick Warne, London, 1896.
EditorialStenorrhynchos speciosum orchid (Red-flowered neottia, Neottia speciosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Sansom after an illustration by Sydenham Edwards from William Curtis' The Botanical Magazine, London, 1811.
EditorialPink striped trumpet lily, Crinum latifolium (Crinum speciosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by William Herbert from Samuel Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822.
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph after a botanical drawing by Emily Eden from her Flowers from an Indian Garden: Second Series: Hope, Breidenbach & Co, Dusseldorf, 1860s. Eden was an English female aristocratic wri...
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker after an illustration in The Garden from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1895.
EditorialShewy lily, Lilium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialShowy gooseberry or fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialFuchsia-flowered gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialLilium speciosum. Lilium speciosum. 1. Atrococcineum; 2. Album. Lily. The Illustrated Bouquet, consisting of figures, with descriptions of new flowers. London, 1857-64. Source: 1823.c.13 plate 45.
EditorialIndian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Chromolithograph by Pieter de Pannemaeker after an illustration in The Garden from Jean Linden's l'Illustration Horticole, Brussels, 1895.
EditorialShewy lily, Lilium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mrs Augusta Withers from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialShowy gooseberry or fuchsia-flowered gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Mills from Benjamin Maund and the Rev. John Stevens Henslow's The Botanist, London, 1836.
EditorialFuchsia-flowered gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after Edwin Dalton Smith from John Lindley and Robert Sweet's Ornamental Flower Garden and Shrubbery, G. Willis, London, 1854.
EditorialShewy delphinium, Delphinium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by M. Hart from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1832.
EditorialFuchsia-flowered gooseberry or shewy gooseberry, Ribes speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Sydenham Edwards' Botanical Register, Ridgeway, London, 1833.
EditorialShowy Indian cress, Tropaeolum speciosum. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and lithographed by Walter Fitch from Sir William Jackson Hooker's "Curtis's Botanical Magazine," London, 1847.
EditorialIndian or sacred lotus, Nelumbo nucifera (Nelumbium speciosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1805. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of ...
EditorialGreat dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium speciosum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis's "Botanical Magazine," London, 1831.
EditorialScarborough lily, Cyrtanthus elatus (Specious-flowered crinum, Crinum speciosum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after a drawing by William Herbert for Samuel Curtis' continuation of William Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822.
EditorialKanokoyuri or Japanese lily, Lilium speciosum (vulnerable) and hosobarindou or Japanese gentian, Gentiana scabra forma stenopylla. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900.
EditorialAtsumorisou or large-flowered lady's slipper orchid, Cypripedium macranthos var. speciosum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889.
EditorialShewy dendrobium orchid, Dendrobium speciosum, native to Australia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts after an illustration by Miss Drake from Sydenham Edwards' "The Botanical Register," London, Ridgway, 1833. Sarah Anne Drake (1803-1857) ...
EditorialLatin American lady orchid, Stenorrhynchos speciosum (showy neottia, Neottia speciosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by J. Swan after a botanical illustration by William Jackson Hooker from his own "Exotic Flora," Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1823. Hook...
EditorialShewy lily or Japanese lily, Lilium speciosum. Adapted from Mrs. Augusta Withers' illustration in Benjamin Maund's "The Botanist." Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful ...