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Hortus Europae Americanus: or, a collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America; adapted to the climates and soils of Great-Britain, Ireland, and most parts of Europe, &c. together with their blossoms, fruits and seeds; observations on their culture, growth, constitution and virtues. with directions how to collect, pack up, and secure them in their passage. Adorn’d with 63 figures on 17 copper-plates, large imperial quarto. By Mark Catesby, F.R.S.

London: Printed for J. Millan, near Whitehall.

1767

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Monograph on the Genus Camellia

by Samuel Curtis FLS; the whole from original drawings by Clara Maria Pope
London: John & Arthur Arch, Cornhill
1819

This digital edition courtesy of The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, USA. (Call number 646273)

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The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya
Being an account, botanical and geographical, of the rhododendrons recently discovered in the mountains of eastern Himalaya, from drawings and descriptions made on the spot, during a government botanical mission to that country by Joseph Dalton Hooker. 
Edited by Sir W. J. Hooker, Vice-President of the Linnean Society and Director of the Royal Gardens of Kew.
London: Reeve and Co., Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
1849

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The Rhododendron and ‘American Plants’: a treatise on the culture, propagation, and species of the rhododendron : with cultural notes upon other plants which thrive under like treatment, and descriptions of species and varieties, with a chapter upon herbaceous plants requiring similar culture
by Edward Sprague Rand Jr.
New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: The Riverside Press
1876

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