Front cover from “The Craftsman’s Plant-Book.” [$]
Title Page Detail: Basket of Flowers
This woodcut of a basket or tub of chrysanthemums and I think roses is in a mediaeval style, and appeared as a page decoration on the title page of the book. [more...] [$]
322.—Apple Tree. Pyrus Malus. C. S.
The apple tree makes a rounder head than the pear-tree and is not so erect. The flowers are in umbels, whereas those of the Pear are in corymbs. Nevertheless the corymbose formation is often present, but less straggling than in the Pear. The leaf is more oblong ,and i bluntly serrated. The stipules are long and tepering, and produce a ragged effect. [...] [more...] [$]
Cork Oak Quecus Suber [$]
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