I posted a black and white vintage clip art illustration of a beautiful Hydrangea a few days ago. In response to my post, I received a request to share the information about hydrangeas from the book. That information is covered on these two pages. In addition to the hydrangea, there is gardening information on a few other plants and three more beautiful illustrations on the pages: one mushroom and two flowering plants.
The pages are from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885.
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THANK YOU so much for posting the entire article! I loved all the information and will put it to use in growing my plants!
The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885, can be found at archive.org. It can be searched under ‘Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening.’ Divided into several volumes from A-E to T-Z, you can download ebooks to your computer or print out the pages you want.
Arhive.org is a good resource for a lot of public domain images but the images are small (fine for anyone who doesn’t need high resolution scans to work with). It would be a “dream” resource if they scanned their images at high resolution.