Familiar Garden Flowers

Two hundred garden flowers, each with F. Edward Hulme's hand-drawn colour plate and Shirley Hibberd's essay — five series of the best-loved flower book of the Victorian garden, complete.

Saxifrage

4 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

Saxifrage

SNOWDROP. The name is explained in the text. N.O., Amaryllidaceoe, the Amaryllis family. LINNAEAN: 6, Hexandria; 1, Monogynia.--A casual…

Saxifrage: Linnaean

VALERIAN is a name of uncertain origin, said to be derived from that of a physician named Valerius, who first used it in medicine. N.O…

Saxifrage: Thymelaceoe

MEZEREON is an Arabic name, and signifies "the destroyer of life," from its caustic properties. Of the generic name Daphne it cannot be…

Saxifrage: Ranunculaceoe

DOUBLE BUTTERCUP illustrates the vagaries of the Ranunculaceoe, and suggests that certain of them have long been under the influence of…

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