#horticole

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Historical horticultural illustration titled "Un Jardin de Ville" featuring a small landscaped garden waterfall composed of large, moss-covered rocks. Water cascades into a shallow stream bordered by stepping stones and surrounded by greenery including tall grasses and various shrubs. Centered above the waterfall is an ornamental umbrella-like metal structure with a scalloped edge. Two inset drawings show a top-down garden layout with pathways, water features, and plantings, and a side view of the umbrella structure on the rock formation. The scene is framed by lush trees and plants, highlighting a designed urban garden water feature from 19th-century Belgium.

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 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.

👩‍🌾 L'Illustration horticole: Gand, Belgium: Imprimerie et lithographie de F. et E. Gyselnyck, 1854-1896. Original source Image description: Black and white historical photograph of a winter garden greenhouse filled with dense arrangements of flowering plants and large ferns. Rounded clusters of chrysanthemum flowers occupy the foreground in pots, creating a dome-like formation. Tall palm-like plants and ferns rise behind the flowers, extending toward the glass-paneled roof of the greenhouse. The setting is orderly and lush, showcasing horticultural cultivation and display techniques typical of the late 19th century. The image highlights botanical diversity and greenhouse architecture at the Continental Horticulture Company in Ghent, Belgium, dated April 1883.