Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions painted tin and ebony wood dominoes This is one of new

This is one of new batch of antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

and also quite mischievous

And by turns making this young girl feel resilient herself

first decade of the 1900s I believe

and is typically portrayed lifting his robe to show a wounded knee (and I take the finger pointing south as suggesting that he has been to hell and back

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions painted tin and ebony wood dominoes This is one of newThis is one of a series of beautiful antique ink and watercolor charts listed today, all executed long ago by a Bessie Slater (I believe, signed on the back of one of them), for a botany class, I presume. Each one homes in on a different aspect or aspects this one the "positions" of floral blooms lateral, whorled, tubuar, etc with 25 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these days, when delight in the