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.

The Canary Flower

3 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

The Canary Flower: European

The best-known plumbagos are P. capensis (here figured), and the two hardy species P. Europaea, native of Southern Europe, and Lady…

The Canary Flower: Statice

The most interesting of the British plants that are allied to plumbago is doubtless the sea lavender (Statice limonium), which may be met…

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