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.

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Shirley Hibberd

4 pages

Preface

4 pages

Synopsis

14 pages

The Oriental Poppy

2 pages

The Winter Aconite

2 pages

Marigold

2 pages

The Indian Cress — the plate from the book

The Indian Cress

Tropoeolum majus and T. minus.

The White Lily — the plate from the book

The White Lily

Lilium candidum.

The Wallflower — the plate from the book

The Wallflower

Cheiranthus Cheiri.

Monkshood — the plate from the book

Monkshood

Aconitum napellus.

Yellow Martagon Lily — the plate from the book

Yellow Martagon Lily

Lilium pomponium.

The Sweet Pea — the plate from the book

The Sweet Pea

Lathyrus odoratus.

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Highlights

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum Indicum.

Yellow Heath

Erica Carendishiana.

London Pride

Saxifraga umbrosa.

Double Red Campion

Lychnis dioica, A. pl.

Yellow Jasmine

Jasminum revolutum.

The Cuphea

Cuphea platycentra.

230Flowers

1879Year

260Pages

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