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Stinking Iris or Roast Beef plant (Iris foetidissima) as portrayed by our Edwardian Botanical artist Diana Ruth Wilson 1886-1969

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2018-08-27

John Martyn's "Historia plantarum rariorum" (1728-[1737]) was the first flower book to be printed in color. It was devoted to new species growing at the Chelsea Physic Garden and the Cambridge Botanic Garden. View it in via : https://t.co/UxftckFzT4

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2018-08-21

A handful of medicinal herbs selected from the Wilson botanical collection

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2018-08-20

Appearing in a hedgerow near you, a selection of fruiting trees/shrubs as portrayed by our Edwardian botanical artist Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969)

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2018-08-13

For explore Australia's first flora: A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland. Issued in four parts between 1793-1795, the work includes descriptions by James Edward Smith & engraved by James Sowerby. In via : https://t.co/mNCDtxK6Db

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2018-08-07

The orange/scarlet of wild arum fruiting bodies appearing in abundance now.....the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection is one of our most loved exhibits

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2018-08-06

A selection of hand-tinted pages from Diana Ruth Wilson's "Flora" of the Nilgiri Hills that complements our early collection of local botanical drawings

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2018-07-30

A selection of summer purples and pinks from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection - all these 194 paintings of West Dorset flora are stunning when seen first-hand!

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2018-07-23

A selection of hedgerow blooms from the Wilson botanical collection

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2018-07-16

"Icones plantarum rariorum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis" (1840-44) illustrates & describes new or little-known plants grown at the Berlin Botanic Gardens. This has recently been digitized in thanks to : https://t.co/Yvf8lELQEW

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2018-07-10

Happy Georg Ehret's "Plantae et papiliones rariores" (1748-1759), which was published plate-by-plate to subscribers over a ten-year period. It is freely available in thanks to : https://t.co/mEQljgSLgf

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2018-07-03

A selection of midsummer hypericum, the flower of St. John. If you come across some unexpectedly you're supposed to place a bit in your left armpit and make a wish! courtesy of our Wilson botanical collection.

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2018-06-25

A selection of meadow flowers from the Wilson botanical collection this morning; corn-cockle and corn marigold being very scarce now

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2018-06-18

A selection of members from the poppy family, from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection

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2018-06-11

A handsome Euphorbia (Caper spurge) and spurge laurel (Daphne) from Diana Ruth Wilson (1886-1969) this morning

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2018-06-04

Some maritime plants from our Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection, for those of you contemplating the beach on

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2018-05-28

James Bateman was one of the first to advocate for "cool" orchid cultivation, which enabled Odontoglossum orchids to be cultivated in England. Explore his "A monograph of Odontoglossum" (1874) in via : https://t.co/Grai5uil3w

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2018-05-21

Bluebells from the Diana Ruth Wilson botanical collection

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2018-05-14

(Thunia bensoniae) for by J. Goffart for Lindenia: Iconography of Orchids, pt. 46-47 (1894). Contributed to by the Peter H. Raven Library of the : https://t.co/hA4zVUON5I --

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2018-05-08

Explore medicinal plants for with "Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen" ([1883-1914]), featuring nearly 300 illustrations drawn by Walther Otto Müller and C. F. Schmidt and chromolithographed by K. Gunther. In via : https://t.co/mArNYiDGJT

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2018-05-07