Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volumen6Sir Joseph Paxton Orr and Smith, 1839 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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