Meconopsis grandis Frame:natural

Meconopsis grandis Frame:naturalWatercolour on paper of Meconopsis grandis (Himalayan blue poppy) by Lilian Snelling. The painting depicts a single flower, stems and leaves in the foreground with a line drawing in the background in green watercolour.

Printed illustration of a chrysanthemum variety 'Nishiki no Mihata' taken from the Japanese publication A Hundred Chrysanthemums by K Hasegawa

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of The Musch Musch Apricot

A Chromolithograph plate of radish varieties taken from the Album Benary

Colour engraving of Camellia panache by P

Watercolour and pencil on paper of Paeonia mlokosewitschii by Lilian Snelling

is illustrated with 23 hand coloured plates

This painting appears in one of ten volumes known as Hooker's Drawings of Fruit which were commissioned by the RHS to help reform the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Lablab purpureus from one of four bound albums of paintings by anonymous Chinese artists purchased by the Royal Horticultural Society in 1912

Watercolour on paper of a group of Erythronium varieties (dog’s tooth violet) by Lilian Snelling

wax apple variety

Erythronium revolutum Johnsonii Group

Colour plate depicting Linnaean classification dated January 1