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Marianne North at her easel, circa 1883

Eleanor Morland, Gertude Cope and Alice Hutchings, Kew gardeners, 1898

Tableau Physique des Andes et Pays voisins - Physical Tableau of the Andes and Neighboring Countries

An exact plan of the Royal Palace Gardens and Park at Richmond, 1754

Cochineal beetle harvest, by Eadweard Muybridge

Marianne North by Julia Margaret Cameron

Carl von Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and taxonomist

The Wardian case, ca 1912-1959

Wardian case in use

506. Dragon Tree at Orotava, Teneriffe

Barrons Tree Transplanter

Portrait of George Bentham (1800 -1884)

511. Dragon Tree in the Garden of Mr. Smith, Teneriffe

planting bulbs on the Broadwalk

Liberian coffee in Ceylon (Plate I), 1878

Waterlily Pond, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, ca 1900

Francis Bauer 1758 - 1840, Botanical Illustrator

The Palm House

The Great Pagoda, (exterior)

A View of the Wilderness with the Alhambra, the Pagoda and the

Thomas Drummond A.L.S. (1793-1835)

Group portrait showing Women Gardeners

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861

Marianne North by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1800s

Tableau physique des Andes et pays voisins - Physical Tableau of the Andes and Neighboring Countries

Carl von Linnaeus, Swedish botanist and taxonomist

Robert Fortune

The Temperate House- plan no 9

Plan of the Palm House, 1860

Portrait of William Townsend Aiton (1766 - 1849)

From top of Choonjerma Pass. 15, 000ft looking West over Nepal, snows, 1848

Sea of mist from 16, 000ft elevation, from Choonjerma Pass, 1854

24, 000ft Junnoo from Choonjerma Pass, 16, 000ft. East Nepal, 1854

The Cinchona Region of South America, 1862

Lycaste aromatica, 1827

William Andrews Nesfields plan of the Broadwalk at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

William Aiton (1731-1793)

Elizabeth Aiton (c.1740-1826)

Portrait of William Aiton (1731-1793), holding a plant (Aitonia)

The Temperate House - plan no 30

The Temperate House- plan no 22

The Temperate House, plan no 1

The Temperate House- plan no 4

The Temperate House- plan no 5

New wing to Temperate House- plan no 5

The Temperate House- plan no 8

The Temperate House- plan no 8A

The Temperate House, plan no 10

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