Passiflora vespertilio Peony

Passiflora vespertilio PeonyWatercolour on vellum illustration of Passiflora vespertilis by Margaret Meen.

A chromolithograph plate of onion varieties taken from the Album Benary

Watercolour on board of a flower of Brassocattleya John Linford painted by the artist Nellie Roberts

Watercolour on paper depicting Crown Imperial Lily from an album titled 'Flores a Petro Holsteyn ad vivum depicti' by the artist Pieter Holsteyn

The magazine continued under the same title until 1983

Printed illustration of a chrysanthemum variety 'usu Sakura' taken from the Japanese publication A Hundred Chrysanthemums by K Hasegawa

Colour woodblock print of Iris Yedo-Jiman from the catalogue of the Yokohama nursery of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

by Lydia Penrose

This is taken from one of ten volumes known as 'Hooker's Fruits' commissioned by the RHS to help standardise the nomenclature of cultivated fruit

dated 1789

Kidney or Snap Bean varieties taken from the Album Benary

Watercolour on rice paper of plant identified as Lycoris aurea (Spider lily

One of 769 hand coloured plates from Curtis's British Entomology