The eggplant lace-bug
The eggplant lace-bug is a 1915 U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletin by David Ely Fink, published in Washington, D.C., for farmers and entomologists dealing with pests of eggplant. Its plates are photographs of eggplant leaves, showing the underside stippling, yellowing and dried patches left by lace-bug feeding, with captions and plate numbers set in the margins. A designer might take the fine, mottled leaf textures and the clean, numbered plate layout as a model for botanical or scientific documentation.
