Paxton's Flower Garden
Paxton's Flower Garden
by John Lindley and Joseph Paxton[edit]
- First edition: Lindley, John: "Paxton's Flower Garden", London: Bradbury & Evans, 1850 [-1853].
With 108 hand-coloured engravings after Louis Aristide Léon Constans.
Volume 1: plate 1 - 36. Volume 2: plate 37 - 72. Volume 3: plate 73 - 108. - Second edition: Lindley, John: "Paxton's Flower Garden" [New edition revised by Thomas Baines], London: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882 [-1884].
With 108 chromolithographic plates, 87 from the first edition (without Constans’ name), 21 new plates, some of them signed by W. H. Fitch.
(From RHS Lindley Library [1] archive copy)
First edition (1850-1853)[edit]
- Coloured plates
plate 3
Cattleya walkerianaplate 11
Trichopilia suavisPlate 16
Rhododendron arboreumplate 21
Oncidium sessilePlate 24
Cattleya labiataPlate 26
Passiflora manicataPlate 27
Dendrobium transparensplate 30
Encyclia alataPlate 31
Paeonia suffruticosaPlate 33
Tolumnia variegataplate 36
Vanda coeruleaplate 42
Vanda tricolorplate 47
Salvia gesneriifloraplate 48
Cattleya labiataplate 51
Pleione humilisplate 54
Trichopilia marginataplate 57
Dendrobium albosanguineumPlate 59
Brownea arizaPlate 60
Aerides roseaPlate 60
Platycodon grandiflorusPlate 69
Grammatophyllum speciosumPlate 72
Phalaenopsis equestrisplate 75
Cycnoches warszewicziiplate 78
Cymbidium mastersiiplate 81
Limatodis rosea
Calanthe roseaPlate 82
Helleborus atrorubensplate 84
Dendrobium fimbriatumplate 90
Odontoglossum nobileplate 93
Mormodes igneaPlate 94
Clematis lanuginosaPlate 97
Moyosotis azoricaplate 102
Solenidium racemosumPlate 106
Hibiscus syriacus
- |Black and white figures|
Fig. 253
Cottonia peduncularis