This vintage page, titled Familiar Flowering Plants, includes beautiful illustrations and corresponding names of 24 different types of flowers. Numbers 1 to 12 form a list of “Flowers of the Year”, with the month to which each is appropriate. Those twelve flowers are:
1. January – English Snowdrop
2. February – English Primrose
3. March – English Violet
4. April – English Daisy
5. May – English Hawthorn
6. June – English Honeysuckle
7. July – White Water-lily
8. August – Red Garden Poppy
9. September – Morning-glory
10. October – Hop
11. November – Chrysanthemum
12. December – Holly
The remaining flowers included on the page are:
13. Larkspur (Delphinium Consolida),
14. Cypripedium acaule
15. Polygala (Polygala paucifolia)
16, Wild Rose
17. Cattleya Trianae
18. Cultivated Rose
19. Arethusa bulbosa
20. Orchid (Odontoglossum crispum)
21. Cardinal-flower (Lobelia cardinalis)
22. Goldenrod (Solidago nemoralis)
23. Carnation (Dianthus Caryophyllus)
24. Fringed Gentian (Gentiana crinita).
The page is from a dictionary in my collection that was published in 1906. Click on image to enlarge.
Thank you for sharing such lovely images!
Beautiful thank you
You’re welcome Elaine and Angela. It’s nice to know you like this one! 🙂
Thought you might want to know I open this week (April 1, 2020) Iroquois story, “The Origin of the Violet” with this. Of course I give you full credit! I’ll end it with another of your lovely violet reprints. Since the story is part of my Keeping the Public in Public Domain segments of stories, your site is always worth checking and promoting.
You ask for my website, I have one, but the blog where this will appear is
I’ve said it here before, but thank you once again!