September 02, 2022

eBotanical Prints – August 2022

September 02, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books in August. My favorite book this month is the one about tree silhouettes! I will continue to browse Flora Costaricensis series in September.

The whole list of 2,452 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the August 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the August 2022 eBotanical Prints!

The Plant World Vol IX 1906 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1906

The Plant World Vol X 1907 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1907

The Plant World Vol XI 1908 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1908

The Plant World Vol XIII 1910 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1910

The Plant World Vol XIV 1911 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1911

How to draw & ink trees & shrubs in silhouette * Ehrlich, Frederic * sample image * 1931

The Plant World Vol XV 1912 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1912

The Plant World Vol XVII 1914 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1914

The Plant World Vol XVII 1915 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1915

The Plant World Vol XIX 1916 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1916

Flora Costaricensis No. 13 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1983

Flora Costaricensis No. 23 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1990

Flora Costaricensis No. 28 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1991

Flora Costaricensis No. 33 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1993

Flora Costaricensis No. 35 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1971

Flora Costaricensis No. 36 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1995

Flora Costaricensis No. 40 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1977

Flora Costaricensis No. 40 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 1999

Flora Costaricensis No. 41 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 2000

Flora Costaricensis No. 45 * Burger, William (editor) * sample image * 2005

August 05, 2022

eBotanical Prints – July 2022

August 05, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books in July. The topics include: plant relations/structures/geography (3), roses, gardens, orchids, ferns, water plants/lilies (3), wildflowers (3), and The Plant World periodicals (7). I will continue to browse The Plant World periodicals into August.

The whole list of 2,432 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the July 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the July 2022 eBotanical Prints!

Plant relations * Coulter, John Merle * sample image * 1901

Plant Structures * Coulter, John Merle * sample image * 1906

Popular geography of plants; or, A botanical excursion round the world * Catlow, Maria E.; Daubeny, Charles * sample image * 1855

Roses and their Cultivation * Sanders, Thomas William * sample image * 1917

The Flower Garden * Sanders, Thomas William * sample image * 1919

Select orchidaceous plants [First series] by Robert Warner ; the notes on culture by Benjamin S. Williams. * Warner, Robert * sample image * 1865

Select ferns and lycopods * Williams, Benjamin Samuel * sample image * 1873

The Water Garden * Tricker, William * sample image * 1897

Water-lilies and how to grow them * Conard, Henry S.; Hus, Henry * sample image * 1907

The waterlilies: a monograph of the genus Nymphaea * Conard, Henry S. * sample image * 1905

Wild flower preservation; a collector's guide * Coley, May; Weatherby, Charles Alfred * sample image * 1915

Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada * Saunders, Charles Francis; Aring, Lucy Hamilton (illustrator) * sample image * 1920

California Wild Flowers * Saunders, Elisabeth Hallowell * sample image * 1905

The Plant World Vol VI 1903 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1903

The Plant World Vol V 1902 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1902

The Plant World Vol IV 1901 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1901

The Plant World Vol III 1900 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1900

The Plant World Vol II 1899 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1899

The Plant World Vol I 1898 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1898

The Plant World Vol VII 1904 * The Wildflower Preservation Society * sample image * 1904

July 08, 2022

eBotanical Prints – June 2022

July 08, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

22 botanical print books in June. The topics were wide ranging: Japanese landscape gardening, sweet peas (4 books), roses, conifers (2 books), lawns, wayside trees (4 books), natural history of plants (7 books), and irises. The books were published a 56 year period; 5 have color illustrations.

The whole list of 2,412 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the June 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the June eBotanical Prints!

Supplement to Landscape gardening in Japan * Conder, Josiah; Ogawa, Kengo * sample image * 1893

All about sweet peas * Hutchins, W.T. * sample image * 1894

The modern culture of sweet peas * Stevenson, Thomas * sample image * 1910

Sweet peas and how to grow them * Thomas, Harry Higgott * sample image * 1909

The rose book, a complete guide for amateur rose growers * Thomas, Harry Higgott; Easlea, Walter * sample image * 1914

Field notes of sweet peas * Morse, Lester, L. * sample image * 1916

Illustrations of Conifers - V2 * Clinton-Baker, Henry William * sample image * 1909

Illustrations of Conifers - V3 * Clinton-Baker, Henry William * sample image * 1913

Lawns, and how to make them, together with the proper keeping of putting greens * Barron, Leonard * sample image * 1909

Wayside Trees - Series 1 * Mathews, Ferdinand Shuyler * sample image * 1899

Wayside Trees - Series 2 * Mathews, Ferdinand Shuyler * sample image * 1899

Wayside Trees - Series 3 * Mathews, Ferdinand Shuyler * sample image * 1899

Wayside Trees - Series 4 * Mathews, Ferdinand Shuyler * sample image * 1899

The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution V1 pt 1 * Kerner, Anton Joseph, ritter von Marilaun * sample image * 1896

The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution V2 pt 1 * Kerner, Anton Joseph, ritter von Marilaun * sample image * 1896

The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution V2 pt 2 * Kerner, Anton Joseph, ritter von Marilaun * sample image * 1896

The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution V5 * Kerner, Anton Joseph, ritter von Marilaun * sample image * 1896

The natural history of plants, their forms, growth, reproduction, and distribution V6 * Kerner, Anton Joseph, ritter von Marilaun * sample image * 1896

A handbook of garden irises * Dykes, William Rickatson * sample image * 1924

The genus Iris * Dykes, William Rickatson, Round, F.H. * sample image * 1913

Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle V1 Bontanique * Chenu, Jean Charles * sample image * 1873

Encyclopédie d'histoire naturelle V2 Bontanique * Chenu, Jean Charles * sample image * 1868

June 03, 2022

eBotanical Prints – May 2022

June 03, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

The 20 botanical books in May included 4 series:

Oakes Ames’ orchids (continued from April) from the early 1900s
Flora of the Lesser Antilles from the 1970s and 1980s
2 issues of a magazine about rural art and taste from the 1800s

There were also two themes:

Pines
Oaks

The whole list of 2,390 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the May 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the May eBotanical Prints!

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 3 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1908

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 4 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1910

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 6 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1920

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 7 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1920

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V1 - Orchidaceae * Howard, Richard A.; Garay, Lesley A.; Sweet; Herman R. * sample image * 1974

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V2 - Pteridophyta * Howard, Richard A.; Proctor, George R. * sample image * 1977

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V3 - Monocotyledoneae * Howard, Richard A.; Gould, Frank W.; Koyama, Tetsuo; Maas, Paul J. M.; Read, Robert W.; Thompson-Mills, Brooke (editor) * sample image * 1979

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V4 - Dicotyledoneae (1) * Howard, Richard A.; Kellogg, Elizabeth S.; Staples, George W.; Al-Shehbaz, Ihsan; Anderson, William R.; Plowman, Timothy * sample image * 1988

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V5 - Dicotyledoneae (2) * Howard, Richard A.; Bornstein, Allan J. * sample image * 1988

Flora of the Lesser Antilles : Leeward and Windward Islands V6 - Dicotyledoneae (3) * Howard, Richard A. * sample image * 1989

The Complete Library of the Garden, V 3 * Bloom, Alan * sample image * 1963

The family herbal * Hill, John * sample image * 1812

How to find and name wild flowers being a new method of observing and identifying upwards of 1,200 species of flowering plants in the British isles * Fox, Thomas * sample image * 1906

The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste V28, 1873 * Williams, Henry T. * sample image * 1873

The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste V29, 1874 * Williams, Henry T. * sample image * 1874

The Pines of Mexico * Shaw, George Russell * sample image * 1909

The Genus Pinus * Shaw, George Russell * sample image * 1914

Historic American Trees * Nicholson, Katharine Stanley * sample image * 1922

British oak galls * Connold, Edward T. * sample image * 1908

The oak : a popular introduction to forest botany * Ward, Harry Marshall * sample image * 1892

May 06, 2022

eBotanical Prints – April 2022

May 06, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

20 additional botanical print books browsed in April and added to the list. The list has quite a variety this month; the last two books on the list (about orchids) are part of a series of books; the rest will be on the May list. The publication dates have quite a range (1776 - 1926)….more drawings than color.

The whole list of 2,370 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the April 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the April eBotanical Prints!

Voyage a la nouvelle Guinée * Sonnerate, Pierre * sample image * 1776

Collection de planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes Orientales et a la Chine * Sonnerate, Pierre * sample image * 1806

Jagttagelser over vextriget i Marokko. Observations sur le règne végétal au Maroc * Schousboe, Peder Kofod Anker; Betherand, Emile Louis; Lang, Joh * sample image * 1874

Le grand jardin de l'univers V1 (1785) * Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph * sample image * 1785

Herbier colorié de l'Amerique * Buc'hoz, Pierre-Joseph * sample image * 1783

Illustrations of Himalayan plants * Cathcart, John Fergusson; Fitch, W.H.; Hoooker, Joseph Dalton * sample image * 1855

A second century of ferns * Hooker, William Jackson; Fitch, W.H. * sample image * 1861

Illustrations of the forest flora of North-West and central India * Stewart, J. Lindsay; Fitch, W.H. * sample image * 1874

Illustrations of the British flora: a series of wood engravings, with dissections, of British plants * Fitch, Walter Hood * sample image * 1908

Illustrations of the principal natural orders of the vegetable kingdom * Oliver, Daniel; Fitch, Walter Hood * sample image * 1874

A handbook of flowering trees and shrubs for gardeners * Notcutt, R.C.; Dykes, William Ricatson * sample image * 1926

Our ferns in their haunts, a guide to all the native species * Clute, Willard Nelson * sample image * 1901

The fern allies of North America north of Mexico * Clute, Willard Nelson; Clute, Ida Martin * sample image * 1905

The romance of our trees * Wilson, Ernest Henry * sample image * 1920

Aristocrats of the Garden * Wilson, Ernest Henry * sample image * 1917

Root and stem vegetables * Dean, Alexander * sample image * 1910

Roses, their history, development and cultivation * Pemberton, Joseph Hardwick * sample image * 1908

The Rose in America * McFarland, John Horace * sample image * 1923

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 1 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1905

Orchidaceae: illustrations and studies of the family Orchidaceae - fascicle 2 * Ames, Oakes * sample image * 1905

March 04, 2022

eBotanical Prints – February 2022

March 04, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

21 botanical print books browsed in February and added to the list. The month continued the browsing of Peter Henderson’s “Everything for the Garden” catalogs that I started in January. It’s easy to image people looking at these catalogs in the winters of the first half of the 1900s and planning their gardens. There are books dedicated to conifers and lilacs, two from Yokohama Nursery, and two about wild gardens. The last two books in February were the start another series…the rest will be in the March group.

The whole list of 2,331 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the February 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the February eBotanical Prints!

Everything for the garden, 1926 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1926

Everything for the garden, 1928 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1928

Everything for the garden, 1932 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1932

Everything for the garden, 1934 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1934

Everything for the garden, 1936 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1936

Everything for the garden, 1938 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1938

Everything for the garden, 1940 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1940

Everything for the garden, 1945 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1945

Everything for the garden, 1948 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1948

Everything for the garden, 1950 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1950

Everything for the garden, 1951 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1952

Everything for the garden, 1952 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 952

Hortus Veitchii : a history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and sons * Veitch, James Herbert * sample image * 1906

Veitch's manual of the coniferae * Kent, Adolphus Henry; Veitch, James Herbert * sample image * 1900

The Lilac * McKelvey, Susan Delano * sample image * 1928

Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees (1909-1914) * Yokohama Ueki Kabushiki Kaisha * sample image * 1914

The Yokohama Nursery Co., Ltd - 1898 * Yokohama Ueki Kabushiki Kaisha * sample image * 1898

Taming the wildings * Durand, Herbert * sample image * 1923

The Wild Garden * Robinson, William * sample image * 1883

Refugium botanicum V1 * Saunders, William Wilson; Reichbach, Heinrich Gustav; Baker, John Gilbert; Fitch, W. H. * sample image * 1869

Refugium botanicum V2 * Saunders, William Wilson; Reichbach, Heinrich Gustav; Fitch, W. H. * sample image * 1872

February 04, 2022

eBotanical Prints – January 2022

February 04, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in January and added to the list. The month started with two flower books and one about forests in Japan. Then I found Peter Henderson’s handbook and years of catalogs from his seed business. The catalogs intrigued me. How many of the varieties of celery and melons and peppers and tomatoes…berries and flowers are still available? Some of these varieties would be considered heirloom now and prized because the seeds are suitable to save and grow in next year’s garden. I still have more of the old catalogs to browse in February; it’s a good time to be thinking about a garden.

The whole list of 2,309 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the January 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the January eBotanical Prints!

The Flower-Finder * Walton, George Lincoln * sample image * 1914

Flowers Shown to Children * Kelman, Janet Harvey; Smith, C.E. * sample image * 1910

Forest Flora of Japan * Sargent, Charles Sprague * sample image * 1894

Henderson's Handbook of plants and general horticulture * Henderson, Peter * sample image * 1890

Everything for the garden, 1925 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1925

Everything for the garden, 1899 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1899

Everything for the garden, 1937 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1937

Everything for the garden, 1933 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1933

Everything for the garden, 1946 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1946

Everything for the garden, 1901 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1901

Everything for the garden, 1902 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1902

Everything for the garden, 1904 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1904

Everything for the garden, 1905 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1905

Everything for the garden, 1906 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1906

Everything for the garden, 1908 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1908

Everything for the garden, 1910 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1910

Everything for the garden, 1913 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1913

Everything for the garden, 1916 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1916

Everything for the garden, 1919 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1919

Everything for the garden, 1922 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1922

January 07, 2022

eBotanical Prints – December 2021

January 07, 2022/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in December and added to the list. The month started with 8 volumes of Edward Joseph Lowe’s Ferns: British and Exotic from the mid-1800s. Later in the month there were 7 books on New York fruits and vegetables (cherries, peaches, pears, plums, small fruits, vegetables, and grapes) from the early 1900s with U.P. Hedrick as the primary author. The range of publication dates was from 1788-1938…150 years.

The whole list of 2,289 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the December 2021 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the December eBotanical Prints!

Ferns: British and Exotic - V1 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1856

Ferns: British and Exotic - V2 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858

Ferns: British and Exotic - V3 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858

Ferns: British and Exotic - V4 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858

Ferns: British and Exotic - V5 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858

Ferns: British and Exotic - V6 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1857

Ferns: British and Exotic - V7 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1859

Ferns: British and Exotic - V8 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1860

A natural history of new and rare ferns * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1871

Sertum Anglicum, seu, Plantae rariores quae in hortis juxta Londinum * Brugiere, J.G.; Didot, Petri Francisci et al * sample image * 1788

Supplement to The ferns of southern India and British India * Beddome, R. H. * sample image * 1876

Burgess flower book for children * Burgess, Thornton Waldo * sample image * 1938

The Cherries of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1915

The peaches of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1917

The pears of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1922

The Plums of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1911

The Small Fruits of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1925

The Vegetables of New York * Hedrick, U.P.; Tapley, William Thorpe * sample image * 1928

The Grapes of New York * Hedrick, U.P.; Tapley, William Thorpe * sample image * 1908

Chrysanthemums * Stevenson, Thomas * sample image * 1912

December 03, 2021

eBotanical Prints – November 2021

December 03, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in November and added to the list. There were several topics that show up several times in the list this month: grasses and grasslands, language of flowers, rock gardens, ferns, and plants in particular geographical areas if the US. The age range of the publications is from 1808 to 2007…just under 200 years.

The whole list of 2,269 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the November books is at the bottom of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the November eBotanical Prints!

Rich Grasslands for Missouri Landowners * Missouri Department of Conservation * sample image * 2007

The Floral forget me not; A gift for all seasons * H.F.Anners (publisher) * sample image * 1854

The Language of flowers : an alphabet of floral emblems * T. Nelson and Sons (publisher) * sample image * 1858

The Language and poetry of flowers : with beautiful illustrations * Geo. A. Leavitt (publisher) * sample image * 1867

Collectio plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum, cum delineatione, descriptione culturaque earum V3 * Wendland, Johann Christoph * sample image * 1808

The Gentians of Canada, Alaska, & Greenland * Gillett, John M. * sample image * 1963

Plant studies for artists, designers, and art students * Haite, George Charles * sample image * 1886

Alpines and bog plants * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1908

My Rock Garden * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1907

The English Rock Garden * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1919

Hortus gramineus Woburnensis or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce, and nutritive qualities of different grasses, and other plants, used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals - 1816 * Sinclair, George * sample image * 1816

Flora of West Virginia * Millspaugh, Charles Frederick * sample image * 1892

An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states * Stevens, George Thomas * sample image * 1910

Toadstools at Home * Hastings, Somerville * sample image * 1906

The vines of northeastern America : fully illustrated from original sketches * Newhall, Charles Stedman * sample image * 1897

The shrubs of northeastern America * Newhall, Charles Stedman * sample image * 1897

Our Native Ferns V1 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1865

Our Native Ferns V2 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1865

A Natural History of British Grasses * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858

November 17, 2021

My Blog’s 10th Anniversary

November 17, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

I started my blog 10 years ago this month. It was part of my transition from being career focused for more than 40 years. And I’ve kept it going – it’s an enjoyable daily rhythm for me. I’m savoring my history of the past decade in this post.

The blog posts from 2011 included a trip to Longwood Gardens and a long road trip to Tucson, Arizona (with photos of rest stops along the way) where my daughter was in graduate school. I stated the gleanings of the week and enjoyed posting recipes and photographs of places I was visiting. The new technology was a Kindle Fire; I was making the transition from physical to digital books…it would take several more years to complete the transition and I’d graduated from the Kindle Fire to an iPad, Smartphone (and laptop) for reading. Some of my favorite posts form 2011 include: Recipe of the Week: Homemade Soup for a Cold Day, Water Lily Pictures, and 10 Cosmetics from the Kitchen.

In 2012, I started the monthly ‘10 days of little celebrations’ and experienced the trauma of my parents getting older…beginning to experience substantial health problems. We added a bird feeder on our deck – visible from my office window and I started enjoying birdwatching through the window. Some of my favorite posts include: Birds from my Office Window, Gray Day Reflections, Yucca Seed Pods, and Ten Days of Little Celebrations - November 2012.

The next year I started the zooming and free eBooks posts. Over the years my camera’s optical zoom capabilities have improved dramatically and I enjoy using it to get better images. By this time, I was almost completely transitioned to digital books too. We made a road trip to Florida for a satellite launch at Cape Canaveral and I got my first close view of Sandhill Cranes in the Orlando airport cell phone lot waiting for my daughter to arrive. Some of my favorite posts close to that anniversary include: 3 Free eBooks - December 2013, Sandhill Cranes in Florida - November 2013, Herons in Florida - November 2013, and Zooming - December 2013.

In 2014, I started my effort to reduce the ‘stuff’ we had accumulated from living for more than 25 years in our house. My volunteer work has gradually increased…and would be easily sustained until the COVID-19 pandemic. Some of my favorite posts from the end of 2014 include: The Grand Cleanout - December 2014, December Sunrise, and Fall Field Trips.

The big event at the end of 2015 was our travel to the big island of Hawaii…including a day trip to the top of Maunakea. It was an wonderful experience but I find myself wondering if I ever want to take a long flight like that again.

2016 was our first birding festival – the Festival of the Cranes at Bosque del Apache. We also discovered the Bald Eagles at Conowingo Dam, closer to home. I started my monthly Zentangle posts. Here are some sample posts: Highlights of 2016, Conowingo - December 2016, Zentangle® – November 2016, and First Day at Bosque del Apache.

I started the monthly eBotantical Prints posts in November 2017. I’d been browsing historical botanical books in the last decade of my career and was beginning to figure out a way to share my list. At the time I thought that I had about exhausted the supply, but I’ve continued to add 20 or so books every month until there are now over 2,200 books on the list!

In 2018 we attended our second Festival of the Cranes in New Mexico then enjoyed the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival early in 2019.

In the last few months of 2019, there was a last road trip with my parents at Thanksgiving. We enjoyed the Christmas lights near home and planned for a birding festival in Laredo, TX in the early part of 2020.

As we were coming back from the Laredo birding festival, COVID-19 was in the news and soon we were ‘staying at home as much as possible’. By November 2020, we were anticipating that a vaccine was going to become available and the pandemic would end. We were doing virtual birding festivals and otherwise keeping ourselves happy at or close to home.

And here I am in November 2021, still not like I was pre-pandemic. I enjoy many of the same things I have in the past 10 years, but I am not out venturing into crowds…not flying. I am facing a health challenge of my own (cancer). My parents are home bound in Texas, and I have made visiting them my rationale for 3 road trips since the spring when I became fully vaccinated. At this point, it is not the pandemic that causes most of my anxiety, but the changed behavior (sometimes abrasive and violent) of people under stress that has become so apparent over the past year.

The blog continues…it’s a way to document my present….and notice the subtle changes in the way I am ‘living well.’

November 05, 2021

eBotanical Prints – November 2021

November 05, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in October and added to the list. The browsing seemed to clump by topic and some series. There were 2 volumes about plant fossils, 2 about flower/plant art, 2 books about apples, 5 about the flora of Austria (from the 1770s) 5 about flora around London from the same time period, and 2 about the grasses of Iowa. Both the apple and grasses volumes were from the early 1900s; I wondered how many of the varieties in these publications still exist. Overall – a lot of variety in the October 2021 books.

The whole list of 2,249 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the October books is at the end of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the October eBotanical Prints!

Atlas to the coal flora of Pennsylvania, and of the carboniferous formation throughout the United States * Lesquereaux, Leo * sample image * 1879

The Palæontological report : as prepared for the Geological report of Kentucky * Lesquereaux, Leo * sample image * 1857

Lessons in Flower Painting * Andrews, James * sample image * 1836

Sketchbook on pines and cactus * Roetter, Paulus * sample image * 1848

Art forms in nature : examples from the plant world photographed direct from nature * Blossfeldt, Karl * sample image * 1929

The bamboo garden * Freemon-Mitford, Algernon Bertram * sample image * 1896

The Apples of New York V1 * Beach, Spencer Ambrose; Booth, Nathaniel Ogden; Taylor, Orrin Morehouse * sample image * 1905

The Apples of New York V2 * Beach, Spencer Ambrose; Booth, Nathaniel Ogden; Taylor, Orrin Morehouse * sample image * 1905

Florae Austriacae V1 * Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Scheidl, Franz Anton von (illustrator) * sample image * 1773

Florae Austriacae V4 * Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Scheidl, Franz Anton von (illustrator) * sample image * 1776

Florae Austriacae V2 * Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Scheidl, Franz Anton von (illustrator) * sample image * 1774

Florae Austriacae V3 * Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Scheidl, Franz Anton von (illustrator) * sample image * 1775

Florae Austriacae V5 * Jacquin, Nikolaus Joseph; Scheidl, Franz Anton von (illustrator) * sample image * 1778

Flora Londinensis - V1 * Curtis, William et al * sample image * 1777

Flora Londinensis - V2 * Curtis, William et al * sample image * 1777

Flora Londinensis - V3 * Curtis, William et al * sample image * 1777

Flora Londinensis - V4 * Curtis, William et al * sample image * 1777

Flora Londinensis - V5 * Curtis, William et al * sample image * 1777

The grasses of Iowa V1 * Pammel, Louis Hermann; Weems, Julius Buel; Lamson-Schribner, F. * sample image * 1901

The grasses of Iowa V2 * Pammel, Louis Hermann; Ball, Carleton R.; Lamson-Schribner, F. * sample image * 1904

September 03, 2021

eBotanical Prints – August 2021

September 03, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

21 botanical print books in August and added to the list. There is quite an age range in this group. The first 10 are from the early 1900s and are a continuation of the Jakob Sturm series I started browing in July. . The rest were published earlier; one is quite old – back to 1625!

There is something to enjoy in the botanical illustrations in all these volumes. I admire the meticulous detail recorded throughout the years, the colors that have remained vibrant for over 100 years, and the perseverance it must have taken for the authors to create and then publish their works.

The whole list of 2,209 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the August books is at the end of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the August eBotanical Prints!

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 5 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1901

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 6 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1902

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 7 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1902

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 8 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1902

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 9 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1901

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 10 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1903

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 11 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1903

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 12 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1904

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 13 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1905

J. Sturms Flora von Deutschland, in Abbildungen nach der Natur BD 14 * Sturm, Jakob; Krause, Ernst Hans Ludwig; Missbach, Ernst Robert; Lutz, K.G. * sample image * 1905

De frvctibvs et seminibvs plantarvm V2 * Gaertner, Joseph; Sturm, J.G. * sample image * 1788

Flore d'Amérique, dessinée d'après nature sur les lieux * Denisse, Etienne * sample image * 1843

Flore d'Amerique : dediée à la Société Linnéenne de Bordx. * Denisse, Etienne * sample image * 1835

Coloured figures of English fungi or mushrooms * Sowerby, James * sample image * 1797

Descriptio et adumbratio microscopico - analytica muscorum frondosorum - nec non aliorum vegetantium V 1-2 * Hedwig, Johannes * sample image * 1787

Fvndamentvm historiae natvralis mvscorvm frondosorvm concernens eorvm flores frvetes, seminalem propagationem, adiecta genervm dispositione methodica V 1-2 * Hedwig, Johannes * sample image * 1782

Exactissima descriptio rariorum quarundam plantarum, que continentur Rome in Horto Farnesiano * Aldini, Tobia; Castelli, Pietro * sample image * 1625

Horti academici Lugduno-Batavi catalogus : exhibens plantarum omnium nomina, quibus ab anno MDCLXXXI ad annum MDCLXXXVI hortus fuit instructus ut & plurimarum in eodem cultarum & à nemine hucusque editarum descriptiones & icones * Hermann, Paul * sample image * 1687

Botanica curiosa oder Nützliche Anmerckungen, wie einige frembde Kräuter und Blumen * Stisser, Johann Andreas * sample image * 1697

Hortus Herrenhusanus - seu Plantae rariores quae in Horto Regio Herrenhusano prope Hannoveram coluntur * Wendland, Johann Christoph * sample image * 1798

Botanische Beobachtungen : nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten * Wendland, Johann Christoph * sample image * 1798

July 09, 2021

eBotanical Prints – June 2021

July 09, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in June and added to the list. I finished the Flora Brasiliensis volumes (started back in April) in June. There is quite an age range in the books for June

32 21 06 (28).jpg — The earliest (Nederlandsh bloemwerk) from 1794

55 21 06 (8).jpg — And the latest from (The Whole Fungus) from 1979.

Lots of changes in the types of images possible for publications!

The whole list of 2,167 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the June books is at the end of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the June eBotanical Prints!

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V14, pt 3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V14, pt 4 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V15, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V15, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Eversley gardens and others * Kingsley, Rose Georgina * sample image * 1907

Roses and Rose Growing * Kingsley, Rose Georgina; Page-Roberts, F. * sample image * 1908

The ferns of Britain, and their allies * Deakin, Richard * sample image * 1848

Handbook to the Ferns of British India, Ceylan and the Malay Peninsula * Beddome, Richard Henry * sample image * 1883

The flora sylvatica for southern India * Beddome, Richard Henry; Bentham, George * sample image * 1869

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis V1 * Beddome, Richard Henry * sample image * 1874

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis V2 * Beddome, Richard Henry * sample image * 1874

Icones plantarum Indiae Orientalis V3 * Beddome, Richard Henry * sample image * 1874

The Ferns of South India * Beddome, Richard Henry * sample image * 1873

Nederlandsch bloemwerk * T.B. Elwe in Amsterdam (publisher) * sample image * 1794

Grevillea * Williams and Norgate (publisher) * sample image * 1872

The Genus Rosa V1: pt 1-16 * Willmott, Ellen Ann; Parsons, Alfred (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

The Genus Rosa V2: pt 17-25 * Willmott, Ellen Ann; Parsons, Alfred (illustrator) * sample image * 1914

The botany of the Antarctic voyage of H.M. discovery ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839-1843 * Fitch, W.H.; Hooker, Joseph Dalton * sample image * 1844

Flora vitiensis - a description of the plants of the Viti or Fiji islands * Fitch, W. H.; Seemann Berthold * sample image * 1865

The Whole fungus : the sexual-asexual synthesis V2 * Kendrick, Bryce * sample image * 1979

June 13, 2021

Rose Georgina Kingsley

June 13, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

One of the books that I added to my list of botanical print books this month was Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley. The pictures of roses and learning a bit about the author appealed to me.

She does not have an entry in Wikipedia…not even listed in the entry for her father, Charles Kingsley. She was the oldest child and evidently followed her younger brother to Colorado Springs in 1871 (a few years before her father died) but was back in England and establishing Learnington High School (now The Kingsley School) for girls by 1884.

Her first book that I found on Internet Archive was South by west; or Winter in the Rocky Mountains and spring in Mexico – published in 1874, a year before her father died – about her experience in Colorado and travel into Mexico. Her father wrote the preface and edited the book; her name is not on the title page even though she wrote everything except the preface and created the illustrations! The metadata on Internet Archive makes the attribution but puts her name in brackets. Maybe it was easier to get the book published with her father’s name.

All the other books I found for her on Internet Archive are from the period where she was also establishing and running the school:

The Children of Westminster Abbey in 1886

The History of French Art in 1899

Eversley Gardens and Others in 1907

Roses and rose growing in 1908

Garden colour: Spring in 1911

I was surprised that I couldn’t find a complete biography for her. She left a legacy in her writings and her school that is significant – maybe that is the way she wanted to be remembered rather than what someone else wrote about her.

June 04, 2021

eBotanical Prints – May 2021

June 04, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in May and added to the list. I am in the process of browsing the Flora Brasiliensis volumes (started in April…continued in May…and will be finished in June). I browse the volumes in Internet Archive but it is easier to find all the volumes in Botanicus…enabling me to find them all very easily.

Something unusual in this group: The V12 pt 3 volume included some pages with scanning anomalies…but I thought they looked very art-like. The sample image for the volume is a normal looking scan (in the mosaic of images for the month); that are three examples of pages with the scanning anomaly below.

The whole list of 2,147 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the May books is at the end of this post.

Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the May eBotanical Prints!

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V5, Pt2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V6, Pt1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V6, Pt2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V6, Pt3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V6, Pt4 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V7 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V8, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V8, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V9 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V10 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V11, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V11, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V12, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V12, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V12, pt 3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V13, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V13, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V13, pt 3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V14, pt 1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V14, pt 2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

May 07, 2021

eBotanical Prints – April 2021

May 07, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 botanical print books browsed in April and added to the list. There was a variety at the beginning then a series (Flora Brasiliensis) which I will continue browsing in May. I browse the volumes of Flora Braziliensis in Internet Archive but it is easier to find all the volumes in Botanicus.

There was quite an age range for the books in April too – 1786 to 1976…with the early 1900s dominating.

The whole list of 2,218 eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the April books is at the end of this post.

Click an any sample images below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the April eBotanical Prints!

The practical flower garden * Ely, Helena Rutherfurd * sample image * 1911

Hortus Nitidissimis * Trew, Christoph Jacob * sample image * 1786

How to know the wildflowers * Dana, Mrs. William Starr; Satterlee, Marion; Shaw, Elsie Louise * sample image * 1915

Genera filicum * Fee, Antoine Laurent Apollinaire * sample image * 1850

Iconographie des espèces nouvelles décrites ou énumérées dans le genera filicum et révision des publications antérieures relatives à la famille des fougères * Fee, Antoine Laurent Apollinaire * sample image * 1854

A Catskill flora and economic botany * Brooks, Karl L. * sample image * 1979

Field guide to the aquatic plants of Lake George, New York * Ogden, Eugene Cecil * sample image * 1976

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V1, Pt1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V1, Pt2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V2, Pt1-2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V2, Pt3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt3 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt4 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt5 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V3, Pt6 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V4, Pt1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V4, Pt2 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

Flora Brasiliensis, enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia hactenus detectarum :quas suis aliorumque botanicorum studiis descriptas et methodo naturali digestas partim icone illustratas V5, Pt1 * Martius, Karl Friedrich Philipp von; Eichler, August Wilhelm; Urban, Ignatz * sample image * 1906

April 02, 2021

eBotanical Prints – March 2021

April 02, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

I finished browsing the rest of the Arnoldia volumes (from the Arnold Arboretum) available via Internet Archive in March; there are 24 of them. Sometimes the volumes are a single issue…sometimes groups of issues (not always divided on year boundaries). I am looking forward to the variety of botanical prints that are not from a series in April!

The whole list of 2,108 eBooks can be accessed here.

Click an any sample images below to get an enlarged version. Note that Arnoldia sometimes includes articles on historical botanical illustrations…sometimes includes traditional botanical drawings…and a lot of photography. Enjoy the March eBotanical Prints!

Arnoldia - v.63:no.4 (2005) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2005

Arnoldia - v.65-66 (2007-2009) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2009

Arnoldia - v.64:(2005-2006) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2006

Arnoldia - v.67:(2009-2010) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2010

Arnoldia - v.68:(2010-2011) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2011

Arnoldia - v.69:(2011-2012) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2012

Arnoldia - v.70:(2012-2013) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2013

Arnoldia - v.49:(1989) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1989

Arnoldia - v.50:(1990) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1990

Arnoldia - v.51 no. 1:(1991) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1991

Arnoldia - v.51 no. 2:(1991) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1991

Arnoldia - v.51 no. 3:(1991) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1991

Arnoldia - v.51 no. 4:(1991) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1991

Arnoldia - v.52:(1992) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1992

Arnoldia - v.53:(1993) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1993

Arnoldia - v.54:(1994) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1994

Arnoldia - v.55:(1995) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1995

Arnoldia - v.56:(1996) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1996

Arnoldia - v.57:(1997) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1997

Arnoldia - v.58:(1998) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1998

Arnoldia - v.58-59:(1998-1999) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1999

Arnoldia - v.59:(1999) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1999

Arnoldia - v.60:(2000) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2000

Arnoldia - v.61:(2001) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2001

March 04, 2021

eBotanical Prints – February 2021

March 04, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 new books for the botanical prints list in January – all from Internet Archive. I started through the magazines of the Arnold Arboretum (Arnoldia) toward the end of January and all 20 of the ‘books’ for February are that magazine…and the browsing continues in March.

These volumes are from the past few decades rather than the past few centuries which is often the case with the eBotanical prints monthly posts. There is one image for each of the 20 new books; click an any sample images below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the February eBotanical Prints! The whole list of 2,084 eBooks can be accessed here.

Arnoldia - v.74:no.3 (2017) * Arnoldia - v.74:no.3 (2017) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2017

Arnoldia - v.74:no.4 (2017) * Arnoldia - v.74:no.4 (2017) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2017

Arnoldia - v.73:no.4 (2016) * Arnoldia - v.73:no.4 (2016) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2016

Arnoldia - v.73:no.3 (2016) * Arnoldia - v.73:no.3 (2016) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2016

Arnoldia - v.71:no.1 (2013) * Arnoldia - v.71:no.1 (2013) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2013

Arnoldia - v.71:no.2 (2013) * Arnoldia - v.71:no.2 (2013) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2013

Arnoldia - v.71:no.3 (2014) * Arnoldia - v.71:no.3 (2014) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2014

Arnoldia - v.73:no.1 (2015) * Arnoldia - v.73:no.1 (2015) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2015

Arnoldia - v.73:no.2 (2015) * Arnoldia - v.73:no.2 (2015) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2015

Arnoldia - v.74:no.1 (2016) * Arnoldia - v.74:no.1 (2016) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2016

Arnoldia - v.74:no.2 (2016) * Arnoldia - v.74:no.2 (2016) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2016

Arnoldia - v.71:no.4 (2014) * Arnoldia - v.71:no.4 (2014) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2014

Arnoldia - v.32 (1972) * Arnoldia - v.32 (1972) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1972

Arnoldia - v.34 (1974) * Arnoldia - v.34 (1974) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 1974

Arnoldia - v.62:no.1 (2002) * Arnoldia - v.62:no.1 (2002) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2002

Arnoldia - v.62:no.2 (2003) * Arnoldia - v.62:no.2 (2003) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2003

Arnoldia - v.62:no.3 (2003) * Arnoldia - v.62:no.3 (2003) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2003

Arnoldia - v.63:no.1 (2004) * Arnoldia - v.63:no.1 (2004) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2004

Arnoldia - v.63:no.2 (2004) * Arnoldia - v.63:no.2 (2004) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2004

Arnoldia - v.63:no.3 (2005) * Arnoldia - v.63:no.3 (2005) * Arnold Arboretum * sample image * 2005

January 08, 2021

eBotanical Prints – December 2020

January 08, 2021/ Gwen Morrison

20 new books for the botanical prints list in December….all from the Internet Archive. 12 of them are an annual publication from the Georgia Botanical Society published between 1986 and 2005; there are 7 more that I looked at in January and will include in next month’s eBotanical Prints post.

Just as in previous months, there is quite a range in the publication dates: 1687 to 2005. And different types of images: drawings, colored prints, and photographs. There is one image for each of the 20 new books; click an any sample image below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the December eBotanical Prints! The whole list of 2,041 eBooks can be accessed here.

Opera omnia, seu, Thesaurus locupletissimus botanico-medico-anatomicus * Malpighii, Marcelli * sample image * 1687

Gramineae Chilenses * Desvaux, Emile * sample image * 1853

Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis plates I-CLII * Ruiz, Hippolyto; Pavon, Josepho * sample image * 1798

Flora Peruviana, et Chilensis plates CLIII-CCCXXV * Ruiz, Hippolyto; Pavon, Josepho * sample image * 1798

Plantes equinoxiales recueillies au Mexique vol 1 * Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aime * sample image * 1808

Plantes equinoxiales recueillies au Mexique vol 2 * Humboldt, Alexander von; Bonpland, Aime * sample image * 1808

Stirpes novae * L'Heritier de Brutelle, Charles Louis * sample image * 1784

A description of the genus Cinchona * Lambert, Alymer Bourke * sample image * 1797

Tipularia - 2005 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2005

Tipularia - 1986 - 1987 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1987

Tipularia - 2004 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2004

Tipularia - 2003 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2003

Tipularia - 2002 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2002

Tipularia - 2001 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2001

Tipularia - 2000 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 2000

Tipularia - 1999 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1999

Tipularia - 1998 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1998

Tipularia - 1997 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1997

Tipularia - 1995 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1995

Tipularia - 1994 * Georgia Botanical Society * sample image * 1994

December 03, 2020

eBotanical Prints – November 2020

December 03, 2020/ Gwen Morrison

20 new eBooks added to the botanical prints list in November. They are all available from Internet Archive. The oldest is from 1682 – The Anatomy of Plants by Nehemiah Grew – the ‘father of plant anatomy.’ 6 books were published in the 1700s and the rest in the 1800s. I enjoyed the variety of books I browsed since I had been making my way through Annals of Botany for 2 months (September and October)! When I selected the sample images – I thought about why I made the selections I did from all the wonderful images in these books. Sometimes I choose because I know and enjoy the plant…sometimes it’s the color…sometimes it is a plant totally new to me. Overall – I like the mosaic of images in the post (and that each image can be enlarged with a click). Enjoy the November eBotanical Prints! The whole list of 2021 eBooks can be accessed here.