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A vibrant #poppy from J.H. Kniphof’s ‘Botanica in Originali seu Herbarium Vivum’, vol. 5 (1758) via @BioDivLibrary @cincylibrary. #LestWeForget #CanadaRemembers #WeWillRememberThem #RemembranceDay
Even if you are in Canada, it is not too late to plant poppies for the spring. Simply scatter the seed on the surface of the earth (or snow) and wait for Don Cherry to appear, complaining that immigrants don't garden enough and probably couldn't keep a houseplant alive.
Poppies remain an enduring symbol of remembrance. Linked forever with our war-dead by the Canadian poet and physician John McCrae, they germinate in disturbed sites and on the surface of the soil. #SciArtSunday #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday #LestWeForget
Just some of the 1000 varieties of roses cultivated by Hackney plantsmen Loddiges & Sons for the arboretum at @AbneyParkN16:
Orwell
Globe
Rose Jay
Quebec
Orion
Atlas
Inconnu
Indiana
King of Mexico
La Virginité
Gloomy
Lake
Early Blush
Dutch Cinnamon
Belle Actrice
#SciArtSunday
Rare apple varieties for your #AppleDay:
Great Unknown
Keep Forever
Catface
Winter Cheese
Ledge
Henhouse
Hazel
Democrat
Ten Shillings
Bachelor Blush
War Woman
Mamma
Pleasegood
Rough and Ready
Adam and Eve
Before refrigerators, blocks of ice were cut from frozen rivers and ponds, and preserved in straw. [L: 'The Ice Harvest', Clarence Gagnon, ca. 1926. Private collection. R: 'Ice Cutting, Quebec City', Maurice Cullen, 1906, via @agotoronto.] #FolkloreThursday
Letters of the alphabet, placed in a bowl and spilled out onto the floor, will tell one's future based on the letters that land face up. #FolkloreThursday 📷: plant specimens from the Steere Herbarium via @NYBG @NYBGHerbarium: https://t.co/zkNmQzi2cW
Need a fix for writer's block? Try the singing apple of Chéry and Fair-star. Anyone who possesses this fragrant apple is turned, magically, into a writer of poetry and prose. #FolkloreThursday #FolklorePlants [🍎: Deborah Griscom Passmore, USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection]
The Still-folk of central Germany hoard gold, silver, and precious stones. Mortals may access these chambers using a Key-flower (Schlüsselblume). #FolkloreThursday [Art by Tove Jansson via @MoominOfficial]