Background:

These beautiful prints are from Volume 2 of The Botanic Garden, published from 1825 to 1851 by Benjamin Maund.  The Garden consisted of "highly finished representations of hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants cultivated in Great Britain".   Maund, who is also known as the publisher of The Botanist, authored the text which described for each plant "their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture and physiological observations".  Among the illustrators were two of Maund's daughters, identified as Miss S. Maund and Miss E. Maund.