The British flower garden : containing coloured figures & descriptions of the most ornamental & curious hardy herbaceous plants ...
The British Flower Garden, published in London in 1823 by Robert Sweet and Edwin Dalton Smith, is a botanical plate book describing hardy ornamental garden plants for English gardeners. Its pictures are hand-coloured botanical plates showing whole flowering stems, bulbs and roots, with dissected flower parts drawn beside each plant, offering designers clear models of botanical line, leaf shape and close-up floral structure.
