Flowers from 1900 Palestine

These flower images are from a book published in 1905, The Cruise of the Eight Hundred To and Through Palestine, and represent flowers typically found in the Middle East at that time.  They were water-color paintings done by Mrs. Bertha Spofford Vester, of the American Colony, Jerusalem, at the turn of the century.  This book notes: "There are 3,500 flowering plants in Syria and 1,700 in Palestine alone."  Below are 4 plants illustrated in this book.

[Please note these geographical regions date from 1900.]  

011.001 Anemone Caronaria	011.002 Chrysanthemum Coronarium	011.003          Adonis Palestina	011.004     Isatis Aleppica

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