Iris Xiphium Size:small

Iris Xiphium Size:smallColour engraving of Iris Xiphium by P. J Redout from 'Choix des plus belle fleurs' published in 1827. The publication contains 144 colour plates of flowers with some including insects and is dedicated to the princesses Louise and Marie d'Orlans.

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

Watercolour by Willliam Hooker of The Chaumontelle Pear

In the 1960's he was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal and the Victoria Medal of Honour

Watercolour on paper by Augusta Innes Withers of 'Chassilas Musque' grapes

Watercolour of Rosa Adélaide d'Orléans

Colour woodblock print of Iris Tanporo from volume II of the Yokohama nursery catalogue of Seitaro Arai which specialised in Iris kaempferi

Lysimachia nemorum (yellow pimpernel)

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

Erythronium revolutum Johnsonii Group

Watercolour on vellum of Vanilla plenifolia flowers (vanilla) by Claude Aubriet

published in parts (each part containing four plates) in Paris from 1827 to 1833

Watercolour by William Hooker of the Apricot variety Breda