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Choose from 14 items in our Images Dated 4th February 2015 Collection
Miss Cotton posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Kew Gardens, 1923" Miss Cotton" posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Victoria amazonica, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey, 1923. It is likely that she was the daughter of Arthur Cotton
Some of Kews female staff, 1942Some of Kews female staff are shown here in 1942. Back row (l to r) Jessie F Pedgrift, Violet M Clark, Jean E Sharps, Freda Mundy
Richard Spruce (1817-1893) botanist, explorer, plant collector
Henry Ridley and rubber tree, SingaporeExtension of original cutting on an old Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis - Henry Ridley ( Rubber Ridley ) and rubber tree, tapped for latex
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker, Director of Kew Gardens, London, 1865. Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker OM GCSI CB FRS (1817 - 1911) was one of the greatest British botanists and explorers of the 19th century
Women Gardeners (drinking tea) 1939Women Gardeners (drinking tea), RBG Kew, 1939. A tea break was only instigated at Kew after Minnie Hill made a personal appeal to the director, Sir Arthur Hill
Arthur Hill, Director of Kew 1922-41. A keen horseman, Arthur Hill used to take a ride every morning but unfortunately met his death in 1941 when he fell from a horse on the Mid Surrey Golf Course
Alexander Wollaston, doctor, explorer and naturalist. photograph from an album illustrating the zoological and botanical expedition Wollaston led to the Snow Mountains of Dutch New Guinea 1912-1913
C W Anderson with Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis photographed at the Botanical Gardens, GeorgetownC W Anderson with Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis, photographed at the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown, Guyana (then British Guiana), early 20th century
Female gardener, RBG Kew, World War IIPreparing terracotta pots for planting. Women gardeners were employed at Kew during World War II, after an interval of nearly a quarter of a century
Women gardeners at Kew, 1939-1945Female gardener in springtime, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, WWII (1939-1945)
Snowdrop, galanthus nivalisGalanthus nivalis, common snowdrop. Galanthus nivalis was described by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus in his Species Plantarum in 1753, and given the specific epithet nivalis
Sir William Hooker (1785-1865). Botanist, illustrator and the first public Director of Kew Gardens 1841. He also held the post of Regius Professor of Botany in Glasgow in 1820
Ginkgo bilobaGINKGOACEAE, Ginkgo biloba, Maidenhair Tree. Autumn leaf detail
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