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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The Winter Aconite (CHRISTMAS ROSE or HELLEBORUS)

CHRISTMAS ROSE, or HELLEBORUS. The familiar name needs no explanation. Helleborus is from the Greek helein, to kill, and bora, food, implying a poisonous plant, which this certainly is. N.O., Ranunculaceoe. LINNAEAN: 13, Polyandria; 6, Polygynia.

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