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Use for: elm

• A plant genus in the family Ulmaceae. Consists of forest and ornamental shade trees, native primarily to north temperate areas. Many are cultivated for their height and attractive foliage.

• A genus consisting of shrubs, in Ericaceae, found widely throughout the Northern Hemisphere and extending south along tropical mountain ranges, especially in Malesia. The shrubs are erect or creeping, with alternate deciduous or evergreen leaves. The small flowers resemble those of the true heaths (Erica), but the ovary is beneath the flower. The flowers are single, clustered, or in long spikes in the leaf axil. The berries are usually edible.

• a large genus of widely distributed perennial herbs (family Valerianaceae) having lobed or dissected leaves and cymose white or pink flowers with spurless corollas

Use for: botanical box

• a usually metal and commonly cylindrical or flattened covered box used in collecting plants

Use for: Adoxaceae E.Mey.

• a small family of flowering plants. They are characterised by opposite toothed leaves, small five- or, more rarely, four-petalled flowers in cymose inflorescences, and the fruit being a drupe.

• A genus consisting of shrubs and small trees belonging to the family Viburnaceae, native to temperate and subtropical Eurasia and North America. Many species are cultivated for their ornamental foliage, fragrant clusters of usually white flowers, and colourful blue-black fruits.

• A genus comprising of herbs or low shrubs in the family Violaceae, including the small solid-coloured violets and the larger-flowered, often multicoloured violas and pansies. Members of the genus Viola occur naturally worldwide but are found most abundantly in temperate climates, the greatest variety occurring in the Andes Mountains of South America. Many are cultivated for their attractive flowers.

• the violet family, comprising of herbs to trees with a few vines. The family is largely tropical to warm temperate, although there are relatively few species in Malesia and Australia. Viola (400–600 species) is largely herbaceous and north temperate

Use for: Wills's Cigarettes

• W.D. & H.O. Wills was a British tobacco manufacturing company formed in Bristol, England. It was the first British company to mass-produce cigarettes. It was one of the 13 founding companies of the Imperial Tobacco Company (of Great Britain and Ireland); these firms became branches, or divisions, of the new combine and included John Player & Sons.
• In 1888 W.D.& H.O. Wills became the first British cigarette manufacturer to include cards, again originally for advertising purposes; however in 1895 they issued their first general interest set titled Ships & Soldiers. This no doubt represented the target market for their product. Cigarette cards are small collectible cards issued by tobacco companies between the late 19th century and the 1940s. They first served to protect cigarettes inside soft paper packs, but soon became popular advertising tools and collector items.

• state of the atmosphere at a particular place during a short period of time. It involves such atmospheric phenomena as temperature, humidity, precipitation (type and amount), air pressure, wind, and cloud cover.
• Weather differs from climate in that the latter includes the synthesis of weather conditions that have prevailed over a given area during a long time period—generally 30 years.