Turning the Book Wheel
Some lovely color illustrations of cherry blossoms from The cherries of New York, by U.P. Hedrick, (1915)
Not the cherry blossoms we have here around the Tidal Basin, which are prunus serrulata, but still pretty.
A little spring planting inspiration from our collection of vintage seed catalogs (via Smithsonian Institution Libraries : Front Cover SIL08-00040-1)
![A Spring/Sports themed mustache Monday. ”The Three Presidents” A.G. Mills, N.E. Young and W.A. Hulbert from Spalding’s base ball guide, and official league book…(1894.)
W.A. Hulbert served as president of the National League from 1876 until his death in 1882, and according to the editors of Spalding’s
…Mr. Hulbert was the great moving spirit in the reforms in the government of the professional clubs….It was his influence, largely, which led to the war upon the ‘crookedness’ which marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool gambling was the potent factor. [1894 edition, p. 136]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4122vexEL1rn3gulo1_500.jpg)
A Spring/Sports themed mustache Monday. ”The Three Presidents” A.G. Mills, N.E. Young and W.A. Hulbert from Spalding’s base ball guide, and official league book…(1894.)
W.A. Hulbert served as president of the National League from 1876 until his death in 1882, and according to the editors of Spalding’s
…Mr. Hulbert was the great moving spirit in the reforms in the government of the professional clubs….It was his influence, largely, which led to the war upon the ‘crookedness’ which marked the early years of professional base ball history, in which pool gambling was the potent factor. [1894 edition, p. 136]
From Flora and Thalia; or, Gems of flowers and poetry: being an alphabetical arrangement of flowers, with appropriate poetical illustrations, embellished with coloured plates (1836) title scanned by our friends at the New York Botanical Garden for inclusion in the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
The Close of Spring
The garlands fade that Spring so lately wove,
Each simple flower which she has nursed in dew,—
Anemones, that spangled every grove ;
The Primrose wan, and Harebell mildly blue :
No more shall Violets linger in the dell,
Or purple Orchis variegate the plain :
Till Spring again shall call forth every -bell,
And dress with humid hands her wreaths again.
Oh poor humanity ! so frail, so fair,
Are the fond visions of thy early day ;
Till tyrant passion, and corrosive care,
Bid all thy fairy colours fade away ;
Another May new buds and flowers shall bring :
Ah ! why has happiness no second Spring ?—Charles Smith
