Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 15Sir Joseph Paxton Orr and Smith, 1849 - Botany Periodical devoted to the illustration in colour of new and uncommon plants grown in British gardens; although primarily horticultural in appeal, it contains the first descriptions of many new species. |
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