EditorialSweet cicely or great chervil, Myrrhis odorata (Scandix odorata). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smith's English Botany, 1800.
EditorialBlack witch, Ascalapha odorata (Agarista moth, Phalaena agarista). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1810.
EditorialPink mallow, Anisodontea scabrosa (Sweet-scented mallow, Malva odorata). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the bo...
EditorialBlack witch moth, Ascalapha odorata. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.
EditorialSweet violet, Viola odorata, with flower, leaf, stem and roots. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's "La Flore Medicale," Paris, Panckoucke, 18...
EditorialMatsuyoigusa or white evening primrose, Oenothera odorata. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901.
EditorialGarden mignonette, Reseda odorata. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text wa...
EditorialSweet violet flower fairy, Viola odorata, using a leaf for a parasol. Handcoloured lithograph by Louis Lassalle from Louise Leneveux' Les Fleurs Parlantes (The Talking Flowers), Louis Janet, Paris, 1848.
EditorialSweet violet, Viola odorata. Handcoloured zincograph by Chabots drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her "Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants," Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefl...
EditorialViolet, Viola odorata, flower fairies kneeling under leaves clutching gold vessels. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs Animees," Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1847.
EditorialSweet cicely, Myrrhis odorata. Handcoloured copperplate botanical engraving from Johannes Zorn's "Afbeelding der Artseny-Gewassen," Jan Christiaan Sepp, Amsterdam, 1796. Zorn first published his illustrated medical botany in Nurnberg in 1780 with 500 p...
EditorialSweet-scented cassia, Senna odorata. Handcoloured botanical illustration drawn and engraved by William Clark from Richard Morris's "Flora Conspicua" London, Longman, Rees, 1826. William Clark was former draughtsman to the London Horticultural Society a...
EditorialField madder, Scherardia arvensis 113, sweet woodruff, Asperula odorata 114 and cleavers, Galium aparine 115. Handcolored copperplate engraving of a botanical illustration from G. T. Wilhelm's "Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte" (Encyclopedia of N...
EditorialParts of fructification in borage Borago officinalis (1), pea Pisum sativum (2,3), snapdragon Antirrhinum (5), and sweet pea Lathyrus odorata (4) .