Flower pictures from 1867 looking if anything prettier than what’s coming with the robins next month. Imagery from “Floral belles from the green-house and garden,” painted from nature by Mrs. C. M. Badger who was also the author of “Wild Flowers.”

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Azalea, Geranium, Roses, Jasmine, Bretia. Frontispiece. Page 8 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n8/mode/1up
Camellia and Bignonia. Page 19 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n18/mode/1up
Fuchias. Page 27 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n26/mode/1up
Cactus. Page 30 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n30/mode/1up
Pansies. Page 54 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n54/mode/1up
Tulips. Page 63 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n62/mode/1up

Asters. Page 75 of Mrs. C. M. Badger’s Floral belles from the green-house and garden. Published in 1867 by Charles Scribner and Company, New York. John F. Trow and Company, printers. Collections of the Smithsonian Libraries. In the public domain due to age. via https://archive.org/details/floralbellesfro00badg/page/n74/mode/1up

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