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Celebrate by learning the history of the plant and how it came to be linked with Christmas in America.

On our blog, Julia Blakely explains the origin of this festive bloom: https://t.co/Xm0JgAeD1g

🖼️ in : https://t.co/1UbPXHmKWY

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🦇 Happy

We love them not just for their contribution to the Halloween aesthetic, but also for their roles as pollinators & mosquito predators.

"Common bats" from "A hand-book to the British mammalia" (1896) in : https://t.co/URZHmSV67A

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Nasturtiums are more of a summer bloom but we think their gorgeous orange hues are pretty great for fall.

From "La plante et ses applications ornementales" by Eugène Grasset. From our Library and available online: https://t.co/0PWQ8qlgab

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🐙For four examples by French naturalistt Alcide d'Orbigny.

They're from "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des céphalopodes acétabuifères viants, et fossiles" (1835-1848), a book of cephalpods in : https://t.co/0KjMeLv5nw

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We'll also suggest the to get your fill of pretty pictures, absent Instagram.

Find tons of swoon-worthy images here: https://t.co/XvqqcsXyUe

(🦋 ➡️ https://t.co/ggUP8eOkfb)
(💐➡️https://t.co/zv49HZQJGw)

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to naturalist and botanical artist Mary Vaux Walcott! Walcott traveled the U.S. w/ husband Sec. Charles Walcott, documenting plants & developed the Smithsonian printing process: https://t.co/dwyGyJ5smR

💐in : https://t.co/XQ06Lteb3k

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Gregor Mendel was born in 1822. The scientist and friar experimented with pea plants to establish many of the rules of heredity.

"Mendalism" in offers a quick recap of the science up until 1911: https://t.co/6Q4Vq0NGPj.

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🌸 Happy from a few of the many (many!) flower plates in "Vilmorin's Blumengärtnerei" (1896).

This German gardening compendium was issued in 50 parts, over the course of two years with hundreds of illustrations.

In : https://t.co/l5HXcio9Ip

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from kicks off today and it's bound to be tenta-cool 🦑

These examples of squids and octopi are from "Mollusques méditeranéens", written by Jean Baptiste Verany and published in 1851. Find it in : https://t.co/dsgPJpzLob

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💐A bouquet from "Les roses : histoire, culture, description" (1873), in honor of

Written by Hippolyte Jamain and Eugène Forney, it was illustrated with 60 gorgeous chromolithographs. Find it in : https://t.co/jVkUioWS0i

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