Description | English: “Spring Song,” by F. H. Kaemmerer |
Date | 1886 |
Source | Les Lettres et les arts (https://archive.org/details/p2leslettresetle1886pariuoft/page/90/mode/2up) |
Author | Frederik Hendrik Kaemmerer |
Category Archives: Botany & Gardening
Dieffenbachia picturata (Dieffenbachia seguine)
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English: Dieffenbachia picturata (synonym of D. seguine) from an 1892 magazine
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Source | L’Illustration horticole (https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_36350_lillustrationhorticolev391892/page/n21) |
Author | Anonymous |
Alocasia reginae
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English: Botanical illustration of Alocasia reginae from an 1885 horticultural magazine
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Source | L’Illustration horticole (https://archive.org/details/cbarchive_36358_lillustrationhorticolev321885/page/n3) |
Author | Anonymous |
Greenhouse with Geraniums
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English: Colored photograph of the geranium trial greenhouse of R. Vincent, Jr., and Sons of White Marsh, Maryland
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Source | R. Vincent, Jr. & Sons catalogue (https://archive.org/details/CAT31290368/page/2) |
Author | Anonymous |
Cattleya ‘Venus’
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English: Cattleya Venus, a hybrid illustrated in an 1895 catalogue
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Source | Catalogue of Charlesworth & Co (https://archive.org/details/CharlesworthCom00CharK/page/12) |
Author | Anonymous |
Dutch Girl Crossing Stream with Basket of Flowers
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English: Dutch girl crossing a stream with a basket of flowers, adapted from the cover of an 1895 bulb catalogue
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Source | Dreer’s Catalogue, Autumn 1895 (https://archive.org/details/dreersautumncata1895henr/page/n1) |
Author | Anonymous |
Water-Lily Eugenia de Land
Fat Round Purple Eggplant
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English: Illustration of an eggplant variety from a 1909 catalogue
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Source | Vilmorin-Andrieux: Catalogue général 1909 (https://archive.org/details/Vilmorin1909G/page/n17) |
Author | Anonymous illustrator |
Azalea nudiflora (Rhododendron calendulaceum) by M. P. Bessa
Vegetables
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English: An arrangement of vegetables that could be grown in a home garden in 1878
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Source | Vick’s Flower and Vegetable Garden (https://archive.org/details/vicksflowerveget00vick/page/n171) |
Author | Lithographic & Chromo Co. of Rochester, N.Y. |
Key: 1, Wax or Butter Beans; 2, Peas; 3, Pie Plant; 4, Sweet Corn; 5, Hathaway Tomato; 6, Purple-top Turnip; 7, Cos Lettuce; 8, Water Melon; 9, Cauliflower; 10, Hubbard Squash; 11, Summer Crook-neck Squash; 12, Filderkraut Cabbage; 13, Egg Plant; 14, Long Green Cucumber; 15, 16, Musk Melons; 17, Celery; 18, Belgian Green-top Carrot; 19, Long Blood Beet; 20, Turnip Beet; 21, California Radish; 22, Olive-shaped Radish; 23, 24, Onions; 25, Bell Pepper; 26, Short-horn Carrot.