Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions Japanese sake cup given privileged treatment via the

given privileged treatment via the frame I found it in (the flip side faces front

with enamel painted color on the wooden blocks

the Pima (now called Akimel Oʼodham

I found one other like him a number of months ago and had never seen another

and the order in which they appear--revealing an active thought process of ticking through the necessities

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Flower Positions Japanese sake cup given privileged treatment via theThis 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 the "positions" of floral blooms lateral, whorled, tubuar, etc with 25 different sorts described and carefully illustrated in watercolor. More than ever these days, when delight in the