Velvet rose, unidentified rose, flaxleaf pimpernel, damask rose, water forget-me-not, and Austrian copper rose

John Evelyn (1620–1706, pl. 25) is celebrated as a well-loved English diarist, as author of an influential work on trees, Sylva (1664, 1670, 1679 and 1706), and as a virtuoso with intimate connections to the Royal Society.The first three editions dated 1664, 1670 and 1679 were entitled Sylva; or, A Discourse on Forest-Trees, but by 1706 the publishers had adopted Silva instead. Sylva is used here in general discussions, but Silva in reference to the 1706 edition specifically. Yet his masterwork ‘Elysium Britannicum; or, The Royal Gardens in Three Books’, remaining in manuscript over a lifetime of revisions, waited until 2001 for...