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- A Baby Apple
A Baby Apple Where there was a blossom before, you find now a little green thing something like a knob, This tiny knob keeps growing bigger and bigger, and then you see that it is a baby apple. - a fruit cluster from the hop hornbeam
- A Rose hip
- a single seed sailboat of the dandelion
- a strange and terrible fruit
- a wing to the seed
- a witch-hazel branch bearing both flowers and fruit
- Acanthus latifolius (lusitanicus).
Ornamental foliaged herbaceous Section; retaining its leaves till very late in the year. The leaves of this are bold and noble in outline, and the plant has a tendency, rare in some hardy things with otherwise fine qualities, to retain them till the end of the season without losing a particle of their freshness and polished verdure. In fact, the only thing we have to decide about this subject is, what is the best place for it? Now, it is one of those things that will not disgrace any position, and will prove equally at home in the centre of the mixed border, projected in the grass a little from the edge of a choice shrubbery, or in the flower-garden; nobody need fear its displaying anything like the seediness which such things as the Heracleums show at the end of summer. - Acokanthera spectabilis
Acokanthera spectabilis - acorn
- Adaption of Horned Poppy for needlework
- Adenium multiflorum
Adenium multiflorum - Agapanthus Umbellatus
Agapanthus Umbellatus - air ships of the milkweed
- Aloe Pienaarii
Aloe Pienaarii - Aloe pretoriensis
Aloe pretoriensis - Aloe Globuligemma
Aloe Globuligemma - Apple
- Apple cut crosswise
- Apple cut lengthwise
- Apple Flower
- Apples
- Aprecocks
To dry Apricocks. Take them when they be ripe, stone them, and pare off their rindes very thin, then take halfe as much Sugar as they weigh, finely beaten, and lay them with that Sugar into a silver or earthen dish, laying first a lay of Sugar, and then of Fruit, and let them stand so all night, and in the morning the Sugar will be all melted, then put them into a Skillet, and boyle them apace, scumming them well, and as soon as they grow tender take them off from the fire, and let them stand two dayes in the Syrupe, then take them out, and lay them on a fine plate, and so dry them in a Stove. - Arctotis Decurrens
Arctotis Decurrens - barberries
- barberries
- bean plants
- Beans
Take Beanes, the rinde or the upper skin being pul'd off, bruise them, and mingle them with the white of an Egg, and make it stick to the temples, it keepeth back humours flowing to the Eyes. To dissolve the Stone; which is one of the Physitians greatest secrets. Take a peck of green Beane cods, well cleaved, and without dew or rain, and two good handfulls of Saxifrage, lay the same into a Still, one row of Bean cods, another of Saxifrage, and so Distill another quart of water after this manner, and then Distill another proportion of Bean codds alone, and use to drink oft these two Waters; if the Patient be most troubled with heat of the Reins, then it is good to use the Bean codd water stilled alone more often, and the other upon comming downe of the sharp gravell or stone. - Bees in Clover
- Bees on apple blossoms
- berries of the bittersweet
- berries of the bittersweet
- Blossom of Cucurbita
Mother-Aphis and Her Army of Children on Tube Whilst engaged some few years ago in the study of the species that affects the blossoms of one of our gourds—the Cucurbita ovifera of botanists—certain phenomena were observed, which promised an easy and speedy solution of the problem. Gathered in compact masses, like companies of soldiery preparing for a foray, hundreds of aphides were seen, busily feeding, all over the flowers. There were old and young, not an indiscriminate mingling of ages and sizes, but an orderly arrangement of families, each family preceded by its own appropriate head. First came the very young of each family, only to be followed by those that were older, leaving the oldest of all to lead up the rear. - Bolusanthus speciosus
Bolusanthus speciosus - bunch of the long-winged seeds of the ash
- Burdock
- Burdock Burr
- Ceropegia Meyeri
Ceropegia Meyeri - Ceropegia Rendallii
Ceropegia Rendallii - Cherries
To make a close Tart of Cherries. Take out the stones, and lay them as whole as you can in a Charger, and put Mustard, Cinamon, and Sugar, into them, and lay them into a Tart whole, and close them, then let them stand three quarters of an hour in the Oven, and then make a Syrupe of Muskadine, and Damask water and sugar, and so serve it. - Cherry
- Cherry
- cherry blossom cut open
- cherry blossom cut open
- Cherry flower
- Cherry flower
- Cherry Flower 2
- Cherry Flower 2
- Chokeberries
- Chokeberries
- clematis flowers
- Clerodendron triphyllum
Clerodendron triphyllum - Clivia miniata
Clivia miniata - cottonwood tree seeds
- 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. - Crassula falcata
Cyrtanthus Angustifolius - Cyclamen roots
- Cyrtanthus Angustifolius
- Cyrtanthus McKenii
Cyrtanthus McKenii - Cyrtanthus obliquus
Cyrtanthus obliquus