This high quality print is based on a chromolithographic illustration entitled Dracaena stricta, lithographed by P. de Pannemaeker of Ghent, after an original by Auguste Faguet (fl.1864-1900). From Les Promenades de Paris, by Jean Charles Adolphe Alphand (1817-1891), published in Paris between 1867 and 1873. The work contains illustrations of a variety of aspects of the French capital, including views of historic Parisian gardens and portraits of some of the plants cultivated in them. [Plate 36].
