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Here are some more summer flower favourites with images from the Lindley Library collection of botanical art.

Can you name them all?

#summerflowers #BotanicalArt

Summer flower favourites, the delicate beauty of the Fuchsia.
The genus was named after German botanist Leonhart Fuchs. #SummerFlowers

Discover The Art of the Rose on our new RHS Special Collections page on the Google Arts & Culture platform.

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We've been seeking out all things orchidaceous for this week's #Wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge. Caroline Maria Applebee's delicate 19th century #watercolour illustration shows 2 native UK orchid species - Ophrys insectifera (fly orchid) & Ophrys apifera (bee orchid). #sciart

Bizarre sounding herbal remedy for removing "worms in the face" from the book Toilet of Flora [668.5 Buc]. The concoction included bean flowers, melon seeds & white lilies like those seen in this 16th century #woodcut [945 HER]. #WednesdayWisdom #WoodcutWednesday #WeirdWednesday

In 1919 #RHSChelsea only lasted 3 days so this is our final day of ‘live tweeting’ from Chelsea Flower Show 1919. We hope you enjoyed time travelling to the show 100 years ago. Thank you all for following – hopefully we’ll see you at Chelsea 1920! #RHSChelsea1919

Do visit the stand of Messrs Bees Ltd. to pick up seeds for a variety of flowers, fruit and veg. The 1919 price for a pack of 30 varieties of vegetable seed is only 5 shillings. #RHSChelsea1919

"If the oak is out before the ash,
'Twill be a summer of wet and splash;
But if the ash is before the oak,
'Twill be a summer of fire and smoke."

This piece of plant folklore was reported in "The Folk-Lore of Plants" by T.F. Thiselton- Dyer in 1889.
#FolkloreThursday

We haven't quite had our fill of #chocolate yet @RHSLibraries. This hand-coloured engraving shows Theobroma cacao, the seeds of which (cocoa beans) are used to make chocolate. This is just 1 of 1186 images that appear in Ferdinand Bernhard Vietz's Icones plantarum [615.3 Vie].

Does your skin cream contain snail slime? It can be used to help with wrinkles, scars, acne and dry skin. For more snail facts visit our display @RHS_Rosemoor , @RHSHarlowCarr , @RHSWisley and @RHSHydeHall