When a gardener collects vintage postcards, peculiarly vintage Christmas postcards, she chop-chop realizes she needs to narrow downward her choices for which postcards to collect, or she volition shortly endure overwhelmed amongst postcards.
So she decides to await for postcards that characteristic flowers as well as plants other than the traditional poinsettias, holly, as well as ivy.
Her oculus is drawn to this menu which features violets, i of her favorite flowers.
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| Sent on Dec. 21, 1911 |
Then she finds i amongst panies on it, too a favorite bloom.
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| Sent Dec. 23, 1909 |
Her horizons are expanded when she finds a menu amongst both violets as well as lily of the valley on it.
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| "With dear to Aunt Georgie from Edna" - 1909 |
She does a petty on-line sleuthing as well as finds out that inwards days of old, lily of the valley pips were in i trial forced into bloom for the holidays.
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| No appointment on this one, exactly addressed to Mrs. Ruby Knight, Sheridan, Ind. |
It was a lucky abide by for her because right away she buys pre-chilled lily of the valley pips as well as forces them into bloom for herself inwards the black days of winter.
When a gardener collects vintage postcards, she is saltation to abide by some cards amongst the Christmas Rose,
Helleborus niger, on them.
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| Sent inwards 1913 |
They remind her to await for some inwards bloom at the store.
Later she constitute some other menu amongst the Christmas Rose on it.
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| "From Nillison" |
This i too featured petty elves, which reminded her of the tree fairies that come upwardly within as well as mess roughly inwards Christmas trees, throwing ornaments to the flooring as well as blowing out some of the lights.
Speaking of Auld Lang Syne, if y'all are Scottish she supposes heather is a seasonal bloom - at to the lowest degree it is on this card.
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| No date, exactly based on the stamp, it's British. |
She is non certain who thinks irises are a blossom of the season.
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| Sent inwards 1916, 100 years ago! |
But she definitely agrees that snowdrops tin endure seasonal.
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| Sent inwards Michigan inwards 1908 |
Though her snowdrops commonly come upwardly up at the halt of Jan or offset of February, at that spot are some autumn blooming snowdrops that mightiness bloom at Christmas time.
When a gardener collects vintage postcards, sometimes she buys i amongst no flowers at all on it.
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| From Bessie to Ella, 1916 |
This i reminded her of the story of the
Christmas Cottontail, which someday she plans to unwrap equally a book.
And finally, when a gardener collects vintage postcards, she can't exceed on this one.
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| Vintage 1922 |
No gardener could exceed upwardly a menu amongst a stance related to gardening, fifty-fifty if it does characteristic the almost mutual of Christmas flowers, the poinsettia.
And as well as thence the flavor begins...
*Most of the postcards inwards my modest collection appointment from the 1900s through the 1920s. Not all of them relate to gardening as well as flowers. Check that. All of the ones I actually similar relate to gardening as well as flowers. Otherwise, why bring them?
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