Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone (see detailed last photos) A

(see detailed last  photos) A great housewarming gift

My knowledge of clocks is next to nil

And while the color on the original face has faded

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

them ever since

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone (see detailed last photos) AThis 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