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- Nymphaea stellata
Nymphaea stellata - Moraea iridioides
Moraea iridioides - Mimetes palustris
Mimetes palustris - Milkweed plant
- Medlers
To make a Tart of Medlers. Take Medlers that be rotten, and stamp them, and set them upon a chafin dish with coales, and beat in two yolks of Eggs, boyling till it be somewhat thick, then season it with Sugar, Cinamon, and Ginger, and lay it in paste. - Maple keys
- mangrove fruit 2
- mangrove fruit
- Low at our feet are the red ones of the wintergreen
- Low at our feet are the red ones of the wintergreen
- Lily and Rose
- Lily
- Lilies
- Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Leucadendron Stokoei
Leucadendron Stokoei - Lemon
Recipe from the 1653 book (with original spelling) Take Lemmons, rub them upon a Grate, to make their rinds smooth, cut them in halves, take out the meat of them, and boyle them in faire water a good while, changing the water once or twice in the boyling, to take away the bitternesse of them, when they are tender take them out and scrape away all the meat (if any be left) very cleane, then cut them as thin as you can (to make them hold) in a long string, or in reasonable short pieces, and lay them in your glasse, and boyling some of the best White-wine vineger with shugar, to a reasonable thin Syrupe, powre it upon them into your glasse, and keep them for your use. - Jack-in-the-pulpit
- Jack-in-the-pulpit
- ivy
- inside the seedbox are many poppy seeds
- Indian cucumber root
- Indian cucumber root
- If you split open a maple key, you will find hidden within one of its halves the beautiful baby tree
- hemlock cone
- Haemanthus natalensis
Haemanthus natalensis - Grass border
- Gourds
The Gourd tribe is capable, if properly used, of adding much remarkable beauty and character to the garden; yet, as a rule, it is seldom used. There is no natural order more wonderful in the variety and singular shapes of its fruit than that to which the melon, cucumber, and vegetable marrow belong. From the writhing Snake-cucumber, which hangs down four or five feet long from its stem, to the round enormous giant pumpkin or gourd, the grotesque variation, both in colour and shape and size, is marvellous. - Gladiolus Rehmanni
Gladiolus Rehmanni - Gladiolus psittacinus
Gladiolus psittacinus - Gerbera Jamesoni
Gerbera Jamesoni - Gardenia globosa
Gardenia globosa - fruit of the chestnut tree
- fruit clusters of the golden-rod
- fruit cluster of the dandelion
- Freesia refracta
Freesia refracta - Formal arrangements in London parks
The formality of the true geometrical garden is charming to many to whom this style is offensive; and there is not the slightest reason why the most beautiful combinations of fine-leaved and fine-flowered plants should not be made in any kind of geometrical garden. - Flowers of the fireweed
- Empress of China climbing rose
- dandelion seedbox
- dandelion seedbox
- Cyrtanthus sanguineus
Cyrtanthus sanguineus - Cyrtanthus rotundilobus
Cyrtanthus rotundilobus - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus - Cyrtanthus McKenii
Cyrtanthus McKenii - Cyrtanthus Angustifolius
- Cyclamen roots
- Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - cowslips
Oyle of Cowslips. Oyle of Cowslips, if the Nape of the Neck be annointed with it, is good for the Palsie, it comforteth the sinews, the heart and the head. - cottonwood tree seeds
- Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - clematis flowers
- Chokeberries
- Chokeberries
- Cherry Flower 2
- Cherry Flower 2
- Cherry flower
- Cherry flower
- cherry blossom cut open
- cherry blossom cut open