Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone though that yellow vase with

though that yellow vase with cut flowers perched atop the fireplace at list hints at spring

Plus a few old red cross pinbacks and one American Navy tobacco tag thrown in

the reason for which I have no idea

the shorter 4 1/16"

There is some age toning around the edges

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone though that yellow vase withThis 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 roots and stems with eight different root types (fibrous, creeping, spindle shaped) and twelve different stem types (herbaceous, woody, erect) described and carefully illustrated in