Thomas Etty Seedsさんのイラストまとめ

Mr Crosby’s Egyptian. Egyptian beets originated in Germany in the 1800s. This variety was improved, by selection, for earliness, tender skin & sweetness in Massachusetts by Josiah Crosby in the late 1800s. Good sized, round red beets with flattened tops, upright greens leaves.

SOAPWORT. “The name of sopewort has been given to this plant, from its anfwering, the purposes of foap, forming like it, a lather with water, and taking out fpots of grease &tc from cloth in the fame manner."

Vegetables can also be beautiful, as ay be seen by this illustration of a Capsicum annuum, artist unknown.

Larkspur (Delphinium consolida) by an unknown artust.

Dianthus barbatus, by Alfred Riocreux (1820-1912) born in Sevres, France & described as the most distinguished botanical artist of his day.

A client ordered 10 packets of Cobaea scadens yesterday, so I thought I would share this illustration with you, another by Sydenham Edwards.

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Sydenham Teast Edwards (1768 – 8 February 1819)

Carl Axel Magnus Lindman: Bilder ur Nordens Flora (1901-1905)

Advent calendar day 15. Somewhat exotic today Christmas cactus (Schlumbergera bridgesii ).