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James Sowerby
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Wild flowers of the hedgerow 6Redouté's roses 6Flowers of the cottage garden 6The plants of Greece 6Apples and pears of Herefordshire 6The medicine chest 7Blackwell's Curious Herbal 6Orchid mania 9Georgian and Regency gardens 6Redouté's lilies 6The Temple of Flora 6Bulbs and irises 6Trees and conifers 6Desert plants and living fossils 6Giants of the stove house 6Paxton's greenhouse 6Rhododendrons and magnolias of the Himalaya 7Flowering shrubs 6Van Houtte's Flore des serres 6Climbers and useful plants 6Daisies, primulas and the odd ones out 6
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Curtis's Botanical Magazine 52Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen 7Flora Graeca 6Les Roses 6Les Liliacées 6Jardin de la Malmaison 1The Temple of Flora 6Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse 6The Botanical Register 2The Botanical Cabinet 2Paxton's Magazine of Botany 6Familiar Wild Flowers 6Flora Londinensis 2Flore des serres 6A Curious Herbal 6The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya 2Illustrations of Himalayan Plants 1Reichenbachia 1The Orchid Album 1The Herefordshire Pomona 6
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Elizabeth Blackwell 6James Sowerby 2Thornton's painters 6Ferdinand Bauer 6Pierre-Joseph Redouté 13Sydenham Edwards 1M. Hart 2John Curtis 2George Cooke 2William Jackson Hooker 3Paxton's artists 6Walter Hood Fitch 10Joseph Dalton Hooker 3Van Houtte's artists 6F. E. Hulme 6Alice Ellis and Edith Bull 6Köhler's artists 7Désiré Bois 6Henry George Moon 1John Nugent Fitch 1Matilda Smith 36
By type of plant
Primulas 3Irises 4Rhododendrons 6Daisies 6Fruiting plants 10Roses 8Orchids 11Cacti, succulents & desert plants 6Trees & conifers 17Bulbs 18Lilies 5Climbers 11Carnivorous plants 2Water plants 3Aroids 4Flowering shrubs 25Cottage-garden flowers 18Wild flowers of Britain 9Alpines & rock plants 4Useful & edible plants 32Living fossils 3
James Sowerby
The engraver and naturalist (1757–1822) who drew for Flora Londinensis and Medical Botany and went on to produce the 2,592 plates of English Botany.
