Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone them ever since

them ever since

(see detailed last  photos) A great housewarming gift

And while the color on the original face has faded

barely visible to the eye

the reason for which I have no idea

Bessie Slater's Beautiful 19th Century Ink and Watercolor Botany Chart: Roots and Stems ebony and bone them ever sinceThis 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