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Vintage Botanical Prints – 72 in a series – New Picotees from The florist and pomologist (1879) Click for larger image from The florist and pomologist (1879) Read Continue Reading
Click for larger image D. divaricatum ; caule divaricatissime ramoso, pubescenti ; foliis multipartitis, laciniis linearibus acutis ; floribus pedicellis brevioribus ; petalis integerrimis ; folliculis sericeis. Descr.—Stem very much Continue Reading
Click for larger image CYPRIPEDIUMS No genus or race of Orchids that has been brought under cultivation has yielded so readily, and we may add, so strikingly, to its influence Continue Reading
Click for larger image from Primula Cortusoides from The botanist’s repository (1797) Read more on this topic: Vintage Botanical Prints – 43 in a series – Gladiolus Longflorus Continue Reading
Click for larger image The very distinct Rhododendron now figured is a native of Western Szechuan, where it occurs at altitudes ot 9,000-10,000 feet above sea level. It was first Continue Reading
Click for larger image From Traité Des Arbres Et Arbustes Que L’on Cultive En France En Pleine Terre, 1801 Read more on this topic: Vintage Botanical Prints – 39 Continue Reading
Click for larger image A brazilian columnar cactus from Paintings, M. North via PlantIllustrations.com Read more on this topic: Vintage Botanical Prints – 56 in a series – Continue Reading
Click for larger image This interesting class of plants is becoming more than ever popular and useful, for many of the varieties obtained now bloom so late, that the period Continue Reading
Click for larger image Key characteristics Herbaceous plants and shrubs; leaves alternate on the stem, either simple or divided; without stipules at the base of the leaf-stalk. The flower-stalks are generally Continue Reading
Not a vintage piece of the art, but rather something in a vintage style. I happened across it while searching the Smithsonian sites and thought it would make an appropriate Continue Reading