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Did you know each month is represented by a particular flower?

December's is the Poinsettia. Poinsettias symbolize good cheer and success and are said to bring wishes of mirth and celebration These flowers are typically associated with Christmas.

Tens of thousands of images of @The_RHS unique collection of rare books, beautiful art and much more will be available online through our digitisation project.

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As our tweet on this month's birth flower was so popular we thought we'd share some more chrysanthemum pictures.

These are taken from Volume 1 of 'A Hundred Chrysanthemums' by Keikwa or Keika Hasegawa. The work was published in Kyoto in 1891 by Tanaka Jihei & Yamada Naosaburo.

William Hooker was the first artist employed by the RHS to paint fruit varieties in an extensive project that lasted from 1815-1823.

Over 200 paintings, by Hooker and other artists, make up this early collection which are bound in albums known as ‘Hooker’s Fruit Drawings’

Did you know that each month is represented by a particular flower?

November's flower is the Chrysanthemum.

Chrysanthemums symbolise cheerfulness and love, is associated with the month of November. According to Feng Shui, Chrysanthemums bring happiness and laughter in the house

In the middle ages it was believed that witches anointed their bodies with a tincture of Deadly Nightshade to induce the sensation of flying or being changed into animals, as the Atropine in the berries causes hallucination, confusions and convulsions.

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The RHS has had a library since its foundation in 1804 and has actively collected publications that support the development of the science, art and practice of horticulture. However, we have much more than a magnificent collection of books

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Why not take a look at the many facets of the 'flower with a thousand faces', the Dahlia in a gallery of artwork from the Lindley Library collection?

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Find out how we're digitising tens of thousands of botanic artworks and prints, historic photographs of Wisley, rare horticultural books, early nursery catalogues, and more from our collection.

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Watercolour by William Hooker of the apple 'The Scarlet Nonpareille'

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' which were commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit. The painting is dated 1816.
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