Area displaying a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names

Hong Kong: Botanical Gardens and Albany, looking south from Government House. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: lake in the arboretum. Process print.

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

Jardin des Plantes, Perpignan: bird's eye view. Line engraving by F.D. Née, 1786, after L.N. de Lespinasse after Margoüet.

Botanic Garden, Oxford: panoramic view of the greenhouses with a small ornamental detail of the gates and plans. Line engraving by J. Skelton, 1820, after B. Green.

Botanic Gardens, Oxford: plan of the gardens with details of the gateway and greenhouses. Etching, 1707, after D. Loggan.

The Physic Garden, Chelsea: a plan view. Engraving by John Haynes, 1751.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

Hong Kong: Botanical Gardens, looking east from the lowest terrace. Photograph by W.P. Floyd, ca. 1873.

A gnu and two goats in the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. Lithograph by the brothers Lambert after Huet fils.

1 print : wood engraving, with discoloured varnish

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0011872: Reproduction of an engraving of the botanic gardens at Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden), showing a plan of the garden, the green-houses, and the river with boats on it, from Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès' London botanic gardens, 1906

Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].

160 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 27 cm

Collins guide to the botanical gardens of Britain / Michael Young.

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Botanical gardens

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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

M0011872: Reproduction of an engraving of the botanic gardens at Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden), showing a plan of the garden, the green-houses, and the river with boats on it, from Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès' London botanic gardens, 1906

Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].

Collins guide to the botanical gardens of Britain / Michael Young.

Botanical gardens

Images from the collections

Images referencing Botanical gardens

Works from the collections

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Surrey: Miss North's museum. Wood engraving by Hill.

Jardin Royal, Paris: showing figures strolling in the garden. Line engraving by J.B. Scotin the younger.

M0011872: Reproduction of an engraving of the botanic gardens at Chelsea (Chelsea Physic Garden), showing a plan of the garden, the green-houses, and the river with boats on it, from Pierre Élie Félix Perrédès' London botanic gardens, 1906

Hortus Collinsonianus. An account of the plants cultivated by the late Peter Collinson, arranged alphabetically according to their modern names. From the catalogue of his garden, and other manuscripts. Not published / [L.W. Dillwyn].

Collins guide to the botanical gardens of Britain / Michael Young.

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