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Rustic adornments for homes of taste

Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890, Sanders, T. W. (Thomas William), 1855-1926 · 1895 · London : W.H. and L. Collingridge · 7 pictures

Rustic adornments for homes of taste is a Victorian gardening book by Shirley Hibberd and T. W. Sanders, published in London by W.H. and L. Collingridge in 1895, aimed at amateur gardeners and home decorators. Its pages mix instructional text on propagating plants with botanical sketches, a dried-flower wreath, and a photographic-style scene of a rock garden. For a designer, the pen-and-ink botanical drawings with decorative green vine borders offer a restrained, period-appropriate template for natural motifs and frames.

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