Horticulture Celebrated at Chiswick Gardens

Agate presents its current favorite.
Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, take a trip back to the 19th century in the gardens of Chiswick to visit the London Horticultural Society's exhibition.

Exhibition of the Horticultural Society of London at Chiswick Gardens

 

Source of illustration : Van Houtte, M. L. et al., (1847). Flore des serres et des jardins de l'Europe (in French), Flora of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe, volume III.

This work, published in German, French and English, contains descriptions and figures of the rarest and most deserving plants newly introduced to mainland Europe and England, taken from Botanical magazine, Botanical register and Paxton's magazine of botany. It is enriched with historical, scientific, etymological, synonymic and horticultural notes, etc.

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