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If flowers on are your thing, we hope you get a bouquet with ones as pretty as this cabbage rose from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880)

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2020-02-15

This lovely alpine honeysuckle comes from Conrad Gesner's Opera botanica (1754) https://t.co/BTOEmLpMpo

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2019-12-14

This lovely pomegranate comes from Robert Bentley and Henry Trimen's Medicinal plants (1880-1881)

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2019-12-03

Now that it's fall, we're looking towards warmer colors like the lovely orange found in this nasturtium image from William Curtis's Botanical magazine (vol. 1, 1793)

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2019-10-04

We're enamored of the orange of this nasturtium from William Curtis' Botanical magazine (vol. 1, 1793)

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2019-08-01

This lovely common peony engraving comes from William Woodville's Medical Botany (1790-1793).

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2019-07-05

This lush and richly-colored sarsaparilla illustration comes from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880). Sarsaparilla was touted to have many medicinal uses, including helping with skin problems.

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2019-06-06

This lush and richly-colored sarsaparilla illustration comes from Robert Bentley's Medicinal plants (1880). Sarsaparilla was touted to have many medicinal uses, including helping with skin problems.

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2019-05-01