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• Temple of Flora: or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher (London: Robert Thornton, 1812), by Robert John Thornton (page images at Wisconsin)
• Nederlandsch Bloemwerk (in Dutch; 1794) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Romance of Nature: or, The Flower-Seasons Illustrated (London: C. Tilt, 1836), by Mrs. Charles Meredith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Bowles's Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of Beautiful Flowers, Regularly Disposed in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours With Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature (London: Carington Bowles, 1777), by Carington Bowles (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Florist: Containing Sixty Plates of the Most Beautiful Flowers Regularly Dispos'd in Their Succession of Blowing, To Which is Added an Accurate Description of Their Colours, with Instructions for Drawing and Painting Them According to Nature, Being a New Work Intended for the Use and Amusement of Gentlemen and Ladies Delighting in That Art (London: Printed for R. Sayer et al., ca. 1770), by Carington Bowles
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wayside Flowers and Ferns, From Original Water-Color Drawings (Troy, NY: Nims and Knight, 1887), by Isaac Sprague and A. B. Hervey (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our Common Wild Flowers (fourth edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1893), by Frances Theodora Parsons, illust. by Marion P. Satterlee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of Our Common Wild Flowers (new edition; New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1920), by Frances Theodora Parsons, illust. by Marion P. Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Wild Flowers of the Holy Land: Fifty-Four Plates Printed in Colour, Drawn and Painted After Nature (second edition; London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1876), by Hanna Zeller
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• A Wreath From the Woods of Carolina (New York: Church Book Society, 1859), by Mary Ann Bryan Mason (HTML and page images at ecu.edu)

• Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants (London: Orr and Smith, 1834-1849), ed. by Joseph Paxton (full serial archives)

• Field Book of Western Wild Flowers (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1915), by Margaret Armstrong and J. J. Thornber
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden: Being an Alphabetical Arrangement of All the Ornamental Plants Usually Grown in Gardens and Shrubberies; With Full Directions For Their Culture (8th edition; London: Bradbury and Evans, 1865), by Mrs. Loudon and Charles Edmonds (page images at Google)
• Les Fleurs Animées (new edition, 2 volumes; text in French; Paris: Garnier Frères, 1867), contrib. by Alphonse Karr, Taxile Delord, and Raban, illust. by J. J. Grandville
  • Book 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Book 2: multiple formats at archive.org
• Wild Flowers: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors, by Neltje Blanchan (Gutenberg text)
• Wild Flowers Worth Knowing, by Neltje Blanchan and Asa Don Dickinson (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Anthokinetics: The Physiology and Ecology of Floral Movements (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #420; 1932), by Glenn W. Goldsmith and A. L. Hafenrichter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Flower Garden, by Neltje Blanchan (illustrated HTML at kellscraft.com)
• The Florist's Guide (new and improved edition; New York: For sale by the author, 1844), by Thomas Bridgeman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nature's Garden: An Aid to Our Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors (Garden City, NY: Garden City Pub. Co., c1900), by Neltje Blanchan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals (London: W. Smith, 1842), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)
• The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials (2 volumes; London: W. Smith, 1843-1844), by Mrs. Loudon
  • Volume I: page images at Google
  • Volume II: page images at Google

• As California Wild Flowers Grow: Suggestions to Nature Lovers (San Francisco: Harr Wagner Pub. Co., 1922), by Katherine Chandler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Popular Studies of California Wild Flowers (San Francisco: Upton Bros. and Delzelle, c1920), by Bertha Marguerite Rice and Roland Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wild Flowers of the Pacific Coast (New York: Cassell and Co. c1887), by Emma Homan Thayer
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Studies of Plant Life in Canada: Wild Flowers, Flowering Shrubs, and Grasses (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1906), by Catherine Parr Strickland Traill, illust. by Agnes Fitzgibbon (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Miroir des Fleurs: Guide Pratique du Jardinier Amateur en Chine au XVIIe siècle (in French; Paris: Lib. Plon, 1900), by Chen Haozi and J. Halphen
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Wild Flowers of the Rocky Mountains (New York: Cassell Pub. Co., c1889), by Emma Homan Thayer (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Flora Domestica: or, The Portable Flower-Garden; With Directions For the Treatment of Plants in Pots. and Illustrations From the Works of the Poets (second edition, with additions; London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825), by Elizabeth Kent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flora Domestica: or, The Portable Flower-Garden; With Directions For the Treatment of Plants in Pots. and Illustrations From the Works of the Poets (new edition; London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1831), by Elizabeth Kent (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tiger-Lilies: A Novel, by Sidney Lanier (HTML and page images at Virginia)

• The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Figures of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain; With Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture, and Physiological Observations (13 volumes issued by various publishers, 1825-ca. 1851), by B. Maund
  • Volume I (numbers 1-96): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (numbers 97-192): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III (numbers 193-288): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IV (numbers 289-384): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume V (numbers 385-480): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VI (numbers 481-576): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VII (numbers 577-672): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume VIII (numbers 673-764): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume IX (numbers 765-864): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume X (numbers 865-960): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XI (numbers 961-1056, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XII (numbers 1057-1152, The Floral Register, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume XIII (numbers 1153-1248, and The Fruitist): multiple formats at Google
• Shakespeare Gardens: Design, Plants, and Flower Lore (Philadelphia, Dorrance and Co., c1937), by Annie Burnham Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr. (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885), by Mrs. Francis Sinclair (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Flowers That Bloom in the Spring: Spring Comes to Illinois, and With It Come Wild Flowers Which Are Part of the Picture of Springtime (fourth printing (revised), 1952), by Virginia S. Eifert (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Flowers and Gardens of Japan (London: A. and C. Black, 1908), by Florence Du Cane, illust. by Ella Du Cane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Babes and Blossoms (Boston and New York: H. M. Caldwell Co., ca. 1908), by Walter Jerrold, illust. by Charles Robinson (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden (London: Harper and Bros., 1899), by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Flora's Feast: A Masque of Flowers (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1892), by Walter Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Queen Summer: or, The Tourney of the Lily and the Rose, by Walter Crane (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Flower Fables, by Louisa May Alcott (Gutenberg text)

• Temple of Flora: or Garden of the Botanist, Poet, Painter and Philosopher (London: Robert Thornton, 1812), by Robert John Thornton (page images at Wisconsin)

• Der Selam des Orients: oder, Die Sprache der Blumen (3 volumes in German; Berlin et al.: E.S. Mittler, 1841), by J. D. Symanski (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Twelve Healers and Other Remedies (1936), by Edward Bach (frame-dependent HTML at edwardbach.org)

• Harper's Guide to Wild Flowers (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1912), by Caroline Alathea Stickney Creevey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Annuals (London: W. Smith, 1842), by Mrs. Loudon (page images at Google)

• Groups of Flowers: Drawn and Accurately Coloured After Nature, With Full Directions for the Young Artist (1817), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)
• A New Treatise on Flower Painting, Or Every Lady Her Own Drawing Master (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, J. Booth, J, 1818), by George Brookshaw (page images at Wisconsin)

• Der Selam des Orients: oder, Die Sprache der Blumen (3 volumes in German; Berlin et al.: E.S. Mittler, 1841), by J. D. Symanski (page images at HathiTrust)
• In Berkshire with the Wild Flowers (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1879-1880), by Elaine Goodale Eastman and Dora Read Goodale, illust. by W. Hamilton Gibson
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Romance of Nature: or, The Flower-Seasons Illustrated (London: C. Tilt, 1836), by Mrs. Charles Meredith
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Flora Domestica: or, The Portable Flower-Garden; With Directions For the Treatment of Plants in Pots. and Illustrations From the Works of the Poets (second edition, with additions; London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1825), by Elizabeth Kent (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Flora Domestica: or, The Portable Flower-Garden; With Directions For the Treatment of Plants in Pots. and Illustrations From the Works of the Poets (new edition; London: Printed for Whittaker, Treacher and Co., 1831), by Elizabeth Kent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flora's Dictionary (Baltimore: F. Lucas Jr., c1837), by E. W. Wirt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Language of Flowers: The Floral Offering, A Token of Affection and Esteem; Comprising the Language and Poetry of Flowers (Philadelphia: H. C. Peck and Theo. Bliss., 1852), by Henrietta Dumont (page images at Google)
• Shakespeare Gardens: Design, Plants, and Flower Lore (Philadelphia, Dorrance and Co., c1937), by Annie Burnham Carter (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.