Belle de Choisy cherry, Prunus avium, raised in Choisy, near Paris, around 1760. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts from a botanical illustration by Augusta Withers from John Lindley's "Pomological Magazine," James Ridgway, London, 1828. The magazine was published in three volumes from 1828 to 1830 and discontinued at plate 152 because of a dispute between the editors. Lindley (1795-1865) was an English botanist and gardener who published books on roses, orchids, and fruit. Mrs. Withers (1793-1877) was an eminent Victorian botanical artist and Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen A

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Belle de Choisy cherry, Prunus avium, raised in Choisy, near Paris, around 1760. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by S. Watts from a botanical illustration by Augusta Withers from John Lindley's "Pomological Magazine," James Ridgway, London, 1828. The magazine was published in three volumes from 1828 to 1830 and discontinued at plate 152 because of a dispute between the editors. Lindley (1795-1865) was an English botanist and gardener who published books on roses, orchids, and fruit. Mrs. Withers (1793-1877) was an eminent Victorian botanical artist and Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide.

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