#horticole

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Illustration of Alsophila contaminans, a type of tree fern, from a 19th-century horticultural publication. The plant features a tall, slender, dark brown trunk with subtle textured markings, topped by a crown of large, arching green fronds with delicate, feather-like leaflets. The detailed botanical drawing highlights the plant’s distinctive foliage and trunk structure, set against a plain beige background with the plant's scientific name printed below. The image reflects historical botanical art styles from the mid-1800s in Belgium.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Illustration of two Gloxinia hybrida grandiflora flowers with large, rounded petals. The petals are predominantly white with dense red speckles concentrated toward the center, which is a soft yellow. Each flower features a distinct white, curled stamen structure at the core. Behind the flowers, there are broad, deep green leaves with prominent veining. The detailed, softly shaded rendering emphasizes botanical accuracy in color and texture, characteristic of 19th-century horticultural lithographs from L'Illustration horticole, Belgium.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Illustration of a Costus speciosus plant featuring large, ruffled white flowers with pink petals and a yellow center clustered atop a dense, cone-shaped red inflorescence. The plant has broad, smooth green leaves surrounding the flower stem. The botanical artwork is detailed, showing texture in the petals and leaves, printed in a 19th-century horticultural publication from Belgium titled "L'Illustration horticole." The image includes scale markings and scientific text at the bottom with the plant name and artist credits.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: A detailed historical botanical illustration from 1854-1896 depicting a flowering plant with three large clusters of small, dense white blossoms. The plant features prominent, elongated green leaves with visible veins arranged alternately along a sturdy, upright stem. The flowers have multiple delicate petals, creating a full, rounded shape for each cluster. The background is a plain beige tone, emphasizing the intricate details of the plant. The image is titled "L'Illustration horticole" from Gand, Belgium, showcasing horticultural art and lithographic printing of the period.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Illustration of the fern species Adiantum lunulatum var. celebicum. The image combines a detailed black-and-white line drawing of the plant's full fronds with a vivid green, colorized close-up of a single segmented leaf on the left, showing its fan-shaped leaflets with delicate veins. The fern's characteristic slender, arching fronds with small, crescent-shaped leaf segments are clearly depicted on an off-white background. The illustration is from a 19th-century Belgian horticultural publication, emphasizing botanical accuracy and ornamental plant features.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Historical botanical illustration of Eulophia pulchra, a tropical orchid species. The image features a central flowering stalk with multiple small, pale yellow flowers accented with deep reddish-purple markings. Surrounding the flowers are large, elongated green leaves and thick, segmented dark green stems resembling bamboo shoots. Details include unopened flower buds at the top, textured leaves with prominent veins, and a subtle background sketch of the same plant in monochrome. The illustration is from "L'Illustration horticole" (1854-1896) published in Gand, Belgium.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Illustration of Dipladenia Atropurpurea, featuring vibrant deep red, trumpet-shaped flowers with five broad petals each. The flowers are accompanied by numerous green leaves, some with slightly wavy edges and subtle vein patterns. A few flower buds are visible, showing a gradient from pink to red. The plant’s slender stems are also depicted, with a natural, cascading arrangement. The botanical illustration is detailed and lifelike, set against a plain, light background, typical of 19th-century horticultural prints from "L'Illustration Horticole" published in Gand, Belgium.

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👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Historical botanical illustration from "L'Illustration Horticole," featuring two large, fully bloomed autumn chrysanthemums. One flower is pure white with densely curled petals, and the other is a rich, dark reddish-brown with similarly curled petals. Both flowers have thick green stems and deeply lobed, textured green leaves. The illustration is detailed and naturalistic, showing fine shading and texture on the petals and leaves. The white chrysanthemum is labeled "Mrs. H. Cannell," and the reddish chrysanthemum "Edwin Molyneux." The image is framed by a plain beige background typical of 19th-century horticultural prints.