EditorialBox tree, Buxus sempervirens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialPitcairnia bifrons 1, and Victorian box tree, Pittosporum undulatum 2. Pitcairnie, Pittospore. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse after an illustration by Adolph Fries from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Natu...
EditorialBox tree, Buxus sempervirens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816.
EditorialBox tree, Buxus sempervirens, with fruit and leaves. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 1830. Turpin (...
EditorialBox-tree ornaments, formal gardens of Herrenhausen. The summer residence of the Princes of Hannover was begun in 1638.The gardens were magnificently enlarged by Sophie,wife of elector Ernst August.In 1714 her son became king George I of England.