Volume II, Plate 56 Size:small

Volume II, Plate 56 Size:smallChromolithograph plate after original drawing by Alice B Ellis from The Herefordshire Pomona. The publication in two volumes 'containing coloured figures and descriptions of the most esteemed kinds of apples and pears' was edited by Henry Graves.

Watercolour on board of Rosa 'Dainty Bess'

Colour plate from 'Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique' published in 1783 by Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard

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

Painted at Colesbourne in April 1915

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

published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine

This work contains a total of 486 plates depicting plants from the Liliaceae family

Polygala vulgaris (common milkwort)

These three specimens were painted during the winter and spring of 1906-1907

and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orléans

surprise lily) from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

seeds and sapling growth of the Hornbeam