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Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea, syn. Echinacea intermedia)

From Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l’Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe) vol. 4, by Charles Lemaire, Michael Scheidweiler, and Louis van Houtte, Ghent, 1848.

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Purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea, syn. Echinacea intermedia)

From Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l’Europe (Flowers of the Greenhouses and Gardens of Europe) vol. 4, by Charles Lemaire, Michael Scheidweiler, and Louis van Houtte, Ghent, 1848.

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Sunday, May 19, 2013
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The young gallants would linger.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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The young gallants would linger.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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The old stage  and the turnpike.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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The old stage and the turnpike.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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The golden legend.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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The golden legend.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Saturday, May 18, 2013
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she went to the low railing.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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she went to the low railing.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013
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The village blacksmith.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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The village blacksmith.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013
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The old clock on the stairs.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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The old clock on the stairs.

William Ladd Taylor, from Our home and country, introduction by William Howe Downes, New York, 1908.

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Thursday, May 16, 2013
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A Squire trap, by Jove!

Henry  Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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A Squire trap, by Jove!

Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.

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Wednesday, May 15, 2013