The stem of Aquilegia alpina is nearly one foot tall. The plant has two to five flowers. The flowers…
Aquilegia glandulosa is one to three flowered. The flowers are large and nodding. The flowers are lilac-blue…
The common name of Araucaria excelsa is Norfolk Island Pine. The plant is light green and has curved,…
The leafy branchlets of Araucaria rulei are very long. The leaves are oval and concave. The leaves are…
Pictured is a white pine sapling that has an injured tip due to the white pine weevil. The white pine…
Pictured is the stem of a white pine tree attacked by the white pine blister-rust fungus, Cronartium…
Illustrated is the base of a young white pine tree attacked by Armillaria mellea. The mushroom Armillaria…
Fomes igniarius is a shelf fungus that causes the white heart-rot of deciduous trees. Pictured is the…
The common name of Arbutus menziesii is madrona. The tree occasionally grows one hundred feet tall.…
The Arbutus arizonica tree grows between forty and fifty feet tall. The trunk has light gray or nearly…
Bear berry is the common name of Arctostaphylos uva-ursi. The flowers are small, white and tinged with…
The Arctostaphylos manzanita shrub grows thirty feet tall. The fruit is between one quarter and one…
Arctotis grandis forms a bushy clump between two and two and a half feet tall. The flowers are white…
The common name of Armeria vulgarism is common thrift. The flowers are white, pink, or red. The leaves…
The common name of Artemisia vulgaris is mugwort. The leaves are white and cottony beneath but green…
Artemisia lactiflora is a white flowered form of mugwort. It is a beautiful plant with fragrant foliage.
Jerusalem artichoke is the tuber of a sunflower. The flower produces white, edible tubers. It can be…
Arum italicum is larger than the maculatum variety. The leaves are triangular and light veined. The…
The tenuissimus variety of Asparagus plumosus is a wiry stemmed variety with fewer leaf-like branches.…
Asparagus asparagoides is also known as smilax of florists. The stems are slender and branched. The…
The variegata variety of Aspidistra lurida has an alternation of green and white stripes making no two…
The comet type of China aster has very flat rays. The flowers are rose, white, or blue.
The stem of Astilbe astilboides grows two to three feet tall. The leaves are oval and oblong. The flowers…
Astragalus hypoglottis grows between three and twenty four inches tall. The flowers are violet-purple.…
Aucuba japonica is a stout shrub that grows four to fifteen feet tall. The berries are scarlet, rarely…
Avocados vary in size, form, and color. The colors vary from light or dark green to purple, crimson,…
Phyllostachys ruscifolia is a variety of bamboo. It grows one to three feet tall. The stem zigzags in…
The flowers of Barringtonia speciosa are large and showy. The petals are white with a purple tinted…
The large white lima bean, the common name of phaseolus lunatus, as a long season. It is normally a…
The numbers represent different plants in this oriental pattern bedding. (1) white geranium, (2) Calendula…
The number represent different plants in this French pattern bedding. (1) sulphur queen, (2) blue perfection,…
The numbers represent different plants in the French border pattern bedding. (1) marquerite, (2) coleus,…
The numbers represent the different plants in the Tudor rose pattern bedding. (1) scarlet begonia, (2)…
Pictured is an English border pattern from the eighteenth century. The numbers represent different plants.…
Pictured is an Italian pattern of bedding, the numbers representing different plants. (1) orange king,…
The bassano beet has flesh that is mixed white and light red. It is an old-time, early variety.
Begonia socotrana is a winter flowering species. The flowers are bright rose. The leaves are dark green…
Begonia Gloire de Lorraine is a hybrid. The leaves are small and pure green. The flowers have four petals…
The leaves of Begonia davisii are dull green and thinly hairy. The flowers are bright red.
Begonia dregei grows one to three feet tall. The leaves are thin, small, deeply serrated, and green.…
Illustrated is Begonia rex in its original form. The leaves are hairy and have a rich, metallic green…
Begonia Countess Louise Erdoedy is a variety of Begonia rex. The leaves have a silvery upper surface…
Begonia scharffiana grows one to three feet tall. The leaves are large, thick, fleshy, hairy, olive…
The flowers are Begonia sanguinea are small and white. The leaves are four to six inches long, thick,…
The flowers of Begonia nitida are pale pink with a silver blush. The leaves are four to six inches across…
Begonia madame de lesseps is a showy, strong, erect grower. The flowers are large and white. The leaves…
Begonia argenteo-guttata flowers grow in clusters. The flowers are white tinged with pink. The leaves…
Begonia lucerna is a hybrid. The leaves are heavily spotted with white. The flowers grow in long clusters…
The common names of Benincasa hispida are wax gourd, white gourd of India, zit-kwa, Chinese preserving…
Berberis heteropoda grows between three and six feet tall. The branches are stout and spreading. The…
The common name of Blighia sapida is akee tree. The leaflets grow in three or four pairs. The flowers…
The common name of bombax is silk cotton tree. The malabaricum variety has flowers that are six to seven…
Illustrated are two bouquet themes. The left is a flower theme, the right a foliage theme. The white…
Illustrated is harmony in vase and bouquet. The white circles represent flowers, the black represent…
Illustrated is harmony in vase and bouquet. The white circles represent flowers, the black circles represent…
Illustrated is an echinocereus flower showing the radiate stigma. The emerald green star of the flower…
The belleymeii variety of caladium picturatum has greenish and violet slender stalks. The blade is white…