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Every packet with a botanical plate is credited below: bouquets, plants, subscriptions and the Chocolates add-on.

Bouquets

Plants

  • Phalaenopsis Orchid

    No. 11
    Plate
    Phalaenopsis amabilis, plate 4297
    Credit
    Walter Hood Fitch (drew and lithographed)
    Published
    Curtis's Botanical Magazine, vol. 73, London, 1847
    License
    Public domain. The artist died in 1892.Commons tags: PD-Art (PD-old)
    Source
    View on Wikimedia Commons

  • Echeveria Trio

    No. 12
    Plate
    Echeveria lurida, plate 1
    Credit
    Sarah Anne Drake (artist); John Lindley (editor)
    Published
    Edwards's Botanical Register, vol. 27, London: James Ridgway, 1841 (copy held by New York Botanical Garden)
    License
    Public domain. The artist died more than 100 years ago.Commons tags: PD-old-100-expired
    Source
    View on Wikimedia Commons

  • Boston Fern

    No. 13
    Plate
    Nephrolepis exaltata, plate XIX
    Credit
    Edward Joseph Lowe
    Published
    Ferns: British and Exotic, vol. 7, London, 1859
    License
    Public domain. The author died more than 100 years ago.Commons tags: PD-old-100-expired
    Source
    View on Wikimedia Commons

  • Anthurium

    No. 14
    Plate
    Anthurium atrosanguineum, plate 865
    Credit
    Gertrude Hamilton
    Published
    The Garden, vol. 42, London, 1892
    License
    Public domain in the US. Published in 1892.Commons tags: PD-1923 (PD-US-expired)
    Source
    View on Wikimedia Commons

Subscriptions

Add-ons

The Glass Vase, Balloon and Keepsake Card packets carry line drawings instead of plates.

  • Chocolates

    Add-on
    Plate
    Theobroma cacao L., plate 157 II
    Credit
    Franz Eugen Köhler; Gustav Pabst (editor)
    Published
    Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, vol. 2, Gera-Untermhaus, 1890
    License
    Public domain. Published in 1890; the authors died more than 70 years ago.Commons tags: PD-old-70-1923 (PD-scan)
    Scan
    Scanned by the Biodiversity Heritage Library, shared under CC BY 2.0
    Source
    View on Wikimedia Commons

Commons tags are the copyright codes Wikimedia Commons files each image under, listed in its copyright tag index. A code in parentheses is an extra code on the same file, such as PD-scan for a plain scan of a public-domain original.

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