Red flowering currant, Ribes sanguineum. Native to North-west America, discovered by Archibald Menzies near Nootka Sound in 1787. Handcoloured engraving from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 1, Orr and Smith, London, 1834.

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