Palm trees and ferns. Close your eyes and make the snow fade away at least until you go outside. Lithographic plates taken from the 1854 work “L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins.” By Charles Antoine Lemaire, it was published in Belgium.

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Dieffenbachia antioquiensis. Dieffenbachia d’Antioquia. Aroidées. Lithograph. Plate CXCII, page 8 of L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/n11/mode/2up
Thrinax Barbadensis, loddiges. Palmiers. Lithograph. Plate CXCII, page 10 of L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/10/mode/1up
Araucaria Balansae. Conifères. Lithograph. Plate CXCVII, page 26 of of L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/26/mode/1up
Thrithrinax Brasiliensis, Martius. Trithrinax du Brésil. Palmiers. Lithograph. Plate CCII, page 57 of of L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/57/mode/1up
Dicksonia Chrysotricha. Fougères. Lithograph. Plate CCVI, page 73 of of L’Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/73/mode/1up
Aralia Veitchi. Lithograph. Plate CCXXV, page 217 of ‘Illustration horticole des serres et des jardins which was published in 1854. Charles Antoine Lemaire, author. F. et E. Gyselnyck, Gand, Belgium printer and lithographer. Collections of the Missouri Botanical Garden. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/mobot31753002364120/page/184/mode/1up

I didn’t find this one by myself, either. Someone I’m following on Mastodon posted a lithograph from a later edition.

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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