Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Parts & Seeds shooting gallery terget ) and the perfect vessel

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this would I think make just about the best gift ever

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Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Parts & Seeds shooting gallery terget ) and the perfect vesselThis 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 is all about pollination reproduction, detailing corolla, stamens, pistils, seed vessels, and seeds, with 26 examples described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these