Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems holy man issued 1920)

issued 1920)

Quite a piece of Boston history and just a great object

with a little staining along the left bottom visible edge of paper

This envelope alone feels like a novel to me--and what better name for a heroine (in my mind the addressee is a young woman) than R

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems holy man issued 1920)This 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