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 Commelina

2 pages in this part of Familiar Garden Flowers.

The Commelina: Sweet

The best figure of the plant that we have met with in any botanical work is in Sweet's "British Flower Garden" (t.3). It is also figured in…

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