The 'blew gross-beak' and the 'sweet flowring bay' GP Dorset Gardens

Dorset Gardens

Part of the wall is cut away to show the inside with tiered seating and the stage

By-standers watch as the king rides past in his carriage

Exterior view of All Hallows Barking (by the Tower)

Back row: Brian Alderson

The 'blew gross-beak' and the 'sweet flowring bay' GP Dorset Gardens'Coccothraustes caerulea', the blew gross beak, and 'Magnolia lauri folio, subtus albicante', the sweet flowring bay (Catesby's identifications; modern scientific names: Passerina caerulea, the blue grosbeak; Magnolia virginiana, the sweetbay magnolia). Plate 39 from volume I of The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands by Mark Catesby (London, 1731). Mark Catesby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1733. Original: