Learn to draw flowers this spring with James Sowerby’s A botanical drawing-book; or, an easy introduction to drawing flowers according to nature (1788).
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For today, since it’s supposed to snow here in Boston, why not flip through Rabindranath Tagore’s 1917 Cycle of Spring?
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A novel take on spring daffodils…
Narcissine : an alkaloid from the bulb of the common daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) (1910).
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Don’t all of us start to think a little longingly of a good health resort during the last bouts of cold weather?
From An historical and descriptive guide to Leamington Spa (1822).
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This isn’t quite the type of snow we’re expecting to get lots of in the northeastern US tomorrow — but it’s close.
John F. Hall-Edwards’ Carbon dioxide snow (1913).
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From the June 1894 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Medicine.
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From Mary Francis Baker’s Florida Wild Flowers (1926).
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A little late for National Handwriting Day, but still…
From William French’s The psychology of handwriting (1922).
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From William Gerhard’s The rain bath at the Utica State Hospital (1894).
