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Do you know any seed catalogue with handdrawn illustrations?

I have seen one seed company with beautiful online catalogues with black and white illustration, but just didn't save it. If anyone knows of any, please let me know. Thanks!

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I noticed that you are an illustrator and I'm sure you know that many of these illustrations are copyrighted. Here's one that comes to mind. If memory serves me, their print catalog has more detailed illustrations.
https://www.diggingdog.com/

This one has lovely color illustrations.
https://www.reneesgarden.com/

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Illustrations on both sites are beautiful. Thanks for the information.

I am writing a vegetable gardening book for kids in our church, I think some lovely illustrations of vegetables will make the book more interesting. But I don't know how to draw vegetables artistically, so I want to imitate first. The reason for black and white illustrations is because color printing would make the book too expensive.

I find the illustrations on https://www.reneesgarden.com/ are not only beautiful, but quite simple, which I can easily learn and then redraw in black and white.

I still miss those black and white ink illstrations I saw once though, coz they're of another style:-)

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banyandreams,

Couldn't you just adjust your printer when you print out the color image in your printing preferences? You should have a place to select "print color images in black and white" on there before you actually print it out. And then you could always scan it back in if you need it online...

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Banyandreams, glad that was helpful. Great suggestion from Seaellare! Since this book is for kids, and I see you are in China, you might find this site helpful about how veggies have travelled around the world.
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/index.html

This site has comical and fantastic illustrations in color. They are on the cover of their printed catalog. If you look to the links on the left you can click on the 'Ghosts of Catalogs Past' and see illustrations of previous ones.
https://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Ghosts/s07cover.php

Here's the site of the illustrator.
https://www.jptoonist.com/

Just as a sidenote, you may find this site delightful, though it really has nothing to do with gardening but with cartoon illustration.
https://www.rubegoldberg.com/

Christina Imm is a noted scientific illustrator. If you can find some of her pictures you would definately enjoy them and find them helpful. Scroll down here to her mushroom.
https://www.jeffreymoosegallery.com/exhibit/gallery/97_04.html

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Seaellare:

Thanks for your kindly advice, however I do not think it will work. When we change the printing setting from "color" to "black and white", the printer will actually print in gray scale. I was told by the book publisher that all gray-scaled pictures have to be printed using color technics just the same. Only two-colored pictures are true black and white pictures, that can be printed like the text, and cost much cheaper to print.

So that's why I have to use black and white drawings. Ink illustrations belong to this type.

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Thanks for the sites.

https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/index.html
is very interesting. It gives a lot of information about vegetable origins which I find very helpful to understand each vegetable's culture requirements. Actually there is a long appendix in my gardening book giving details about how to grow some common vegetables. I think I can include their origins so that the students can understand better, won't they?

https://www.jeffreymoosegallery.com/exhibit/index.html
Pictures in the main gallery are beautiful. They are as serene and fresh as the wilderness itself.

I like paintings about the nature. I have collected many. Here are some of the sites I find most of my collection:
https://www.martinridley.com
https://www.natureartists.com/
https://www.artbreath21.com/new/galleryeng.htm
https://www.camille-engel.com/
https://www.missionaryarts.com/
https://pastelsocietyofamerica.org/main/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,27/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
https://www.artiqueltd.com/artworks/list/kinds/14,15

Do you like them?


I do not like the cartoons in https://www.jptoonist.com/portfolio/bw.htm however, coz I do not like that exaggerating and funny style. I have noticed when kids see this type of cartoons, they giggle and make faces a lot, and their mind can not concentrate on the more important things that lie in the topic. So I think funny things are not good in all circumstances. Although some humor can help make the mind more active and relax, but serious thinking can deepen the understanding and uplift the spirit. But the illustrations on the catalogues from https://www.plantdelights.com/ are nice.

I can't open https://www.rubegoldberg.com/ somehow.

Banyandreams.

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Banyandreams,

Sorry the printing wouldn't work out - would save lots of time!! You'll probably be more proud when you can tell the kids that you drew the pictures yourself anyway! :)

Best of luck!

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Banyandreams, I'm glad you liked most of what you saw and found so much useful. I was hoping you would find the site about the veggie travelers interesting for the kids.

I spent quite a bit of time looking at the sites you posted and drooled the entire time! Nature and wildlife are a passion of mine. On one site I found many pictures of Antarctica and it's wildlife. That is a place I have dreamed of going to and was just mesmerized by the photos! I will have to spend more time looking at the rest of the links you posted. What a delight! Thank you sooo much. If you like wildlife, this picture should tickle you when I tell you that just a few moments after this was taken, her boyfriend came charging out of the water. You never saw an old lady run so fast in your life!
https://drdigital.smugmug.com/gallery/434524/1/17531836/Large

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I have never dreamed of going to Antarctica, because it is too cold. I was born in southern China, here we do not see snow in winter. Last year I went to work in a northern place near Wuhan, it was so cold in winter and there was no heat in the room that all day long I couldn't think of anything else except eating and sleeping. However in one of our northernmost provinces, they have ice sculpture. It's worth seeing despite the freezing cold.

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seaellare:

You're right! And what's more, the kids would be very proud when they see my drawings printed on a book:)

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Banyandreams, I must say that your English is fantastic!! I think I know what you are referring to about the ice sculptures. There are pictures going around the internet. Some are of dinosaurs and they are amazing.


It's not the cold that attracts me to Antarctica, it's the wilderness that I love.

Here's a hardiness zone map of China. I was amazed how warm the winter is in the south. Guess I thought of China as a cold place in the winter. My hardiness zone is 7.
https://www.richters.com/newdisplay.cgi?page=Zones/China.html&cart_id=81.1496

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I am backbroken by the book writing today, all day long have been struggling with the part about Plant Nutrients, which seem so complicated and unexplainable to me, and deficiency symptoms look so alike...

The Hardiness Zone reminds me of the part I wrote about planting time. I read before from somewhere that natural calendar is more reliable than other methods...Is it called phenology?

In China, the first croak of frogs is a sign of frost free, although in our region, there is no frost in winter, still the frog croak is a sign for us to start planting beans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, summer squash, all those tender vegetables etc.

I am wondering when the frogs begin to croak in your place? Is it also a sign of frost free?

By the way, I had been an English teacher for 3 years before.

I am in Zone 10.

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Banyandreams, sorry to hear you are having problems with plant nutrients and the descriptions for lack of them. If I can help please let me know. I have some sites that might be helpful. Is this just for veggies?

Phenology is the science of the relationship of plants and climate such as flowering. I have a site about gardening by the phases of the moon you might find interesting.
https://gardeningbythemoon.com/

I love your statement about the first croak of the frogs. Unfortunately here in the US much of the frog population has died off from over use of chemicals, but it does make sense to me. I've never noticed if hearing the frogs means that there will be no more frost, but that is logical. This year I will listen. Around May 15 is considered the last frost for my area.


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Newt: Do you know which element stimulate root growth, phosphrus or potassium, or both? When transplanting, to stimulate root growth, what fertilizer to use?

In our country, not only the beginning of frog croak is a sign of frost free, but the disappearing of frog croak is a sign of coming frost. I am interested in knowing how it is in other parts of the world.

Another interesting thing is Thomas Jefferson, the third president of your country, kept a close record of the nature, such as the first blooming of peaches, cherry trees, dogwoods, lilacs, and the first appearance of swallows, robins and glowing worms, he even recorded the first appearance of peas on his table.

In our country, since ancient time, people kept close observance of the signs of seasons, plantings were made according to these signs. for example, when the cucoos begin to coo, start transplanting rice etc...

I think this very interesting. Do you know any site about this?

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Phosphorus stimulates root growth and potassium helps plants to take up nutrients. That's the short version. This site explains what the different elements do.
https://www.greenhands.com/soil/index.html

I can't think of any sites about gardening by signs of the seasons. I did a quick google search using different terms but didn't find anything. I searched with:
Thomas Jefferson + record of planting
and found this site that mentions others that kept diaries.
https://www.twinleaf.org/articles/company.html

Maybe you could start your search from that info.
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I have finished writing the textbook, here is the link where you may see it, it is in Chinese though.

Appendix I How To Grow Common Vegetables:

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Gardening/VeggieGarden/AppVeggie.htm

Most of the vegetable illustrations are from Renee's site. I find some other illustrations from the following site of rare books.
https://www.finerareprints.com/vol_botanical.htm


The Appendix II Common Pest Repellent Plants:

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Gardening/VeggieGarden/AppHerb.htm

Most of the plant illustrations are from The Time-Life Encyclopedia of Gardening

And the Table of Content

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Gardening/VeggieGarden/TOC.htm

I only drawed 2 illustrations, one is the soil experiment, the other is how to make paper pot. I am too lazy:)

In our part of the country, we can hear the frogs are croaking loudly already. The willows are blooming, the peach blossoms have already faded, small peaches are growing forth, the loquats are already as big as an egg, the lychees are also blooming, the shepherd's purses are seeding.

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Bayandreams, it's wonderful!! I really enjoyed looking at the pics. You even have the names in English. Congratulations!! :mrgreen: Sorry I didn't get to this post sooner but I've been ill and not on the computer for quite some time.

I did answer your post about the insect sketches so I'm looking forward to seeing that one too. :)

Thanks for sharing that with us!
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Sorry to hear you were sick. Hope you are all right. Besides gardening, I am also interested in health living and natural remedies. so I am wondering what was your illness:)

I have a page about health on my site, would you like to read it?

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Health/Lawofhealth/Lawofhealth.htm


I can't find your answer to my question about insect sketches, where is it?

I am very glad you like my book, thanks! I wish you could read Chinese.

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Banyandreams, thank you so much for the well wishes. I had a mini stroke. It was quite a shock to me but I've been very lucky and was not paralyzed. I do have some problems with speech, confusion and typing, but I'm doing much better now. My family and pets have been wonderful. Two of my dogs follow me everywhere I go in the house.

I have heard there are some restrictions on Google in China, so I'm going to do the searches for you and give you the links in the hope you can access them. Here's the copy of your post:


I am collecting handdrawn illustrations of beneficial insects, have found some, but still looking for these:

Whitefly parasitic wasp
Spined soldier bug
Spider mite destroyer
Predatory thrips
Parasitic nematodes
Mealybug destroyer
Damsel bug
Assassin bug
Aphid midge
any kind of Aphid parasites

Where can I find?
I went to https://www.google.com/ and put 'whitefly parasitic wasp' in the search box. I clicked on 'Images' and found this site which shows Encarsia formosa.
https://www.rinconvitova.com/mealybug.htm

Then I right clicked on each image and opened it in a new window.
https://www.rinconvitova.com/images/encarsia.gif
https://www.rinconvitova.com/images/encarsia%20wings.gif

Spined soldier bug - Podisus maculiventris
https://www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/kyf208.html
https://www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/podad_p.jpg

Spider mite destroyer is the top picture and the bottom one is the two spotted spider mite.
https://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/SCOUT/predmite.gif

I got the one above from here.
https://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/SCOUT/biological.htm


Predatory thrips - There are many. From this site:
https://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/avocadothrips.html
Franklinothrips vespiformis - first pic is larvae, second is adult
https://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/photos/thrips/Franklarva.jpg
https://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/photos/thrips/Frankadult.jpg

Franklinothrips orizabensis - couldn't find a picture.

Leptothrips mali - Black hunter thrips
https://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/photos/thrips/bkhunter.jpg

Aeolothrips - Banded wing thrups - adult
https://ccvipmp.ucdavis.edu/images/Aeolothrips.gif
https://www.biocontrol.ucr.edu/photos/thrips/banded.jpg

I can find pictures of these, but I can't find sketches except for the last one above. Lots of info on thrips here.
https://stri.discoverlife.org/mp/20q?search=Thysanoptera


Parasitic nematodes
https://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/nematode/soil_nematode_fig1.htm
https://nematode.unl.edu/extpubs/kanfig1.jpg

Mealybug destroyer
https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/images/842263236
https://mrec.ifas.ufl.edu/lso/SCOUT/mealybug.gif

Damsel bug
https://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/CIS/damsel.gif
https://entomology.unl.edu/ornamentals/beneficials/bugs/damselbug1.jpg
https://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-615/damsel.gif


Assassin bug
https://www.ext.vt.edu/pubs/envirohort/426-615/assassin.gif

Aphid midge - Aphidoletes aphidimyza adult and larvae
https://www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/aphidom.gif
https://www.entomology.wisc.edu/mbcn/kyf405.html
https://www.rinconvitova.com/images/aphidoletes.gif

any kind of Aphid parasites - just right click on a picture and open it in a new window.
https://www.earthworksboston.org/urbanorchards/replicate/06_Pests_and_Beneficials.htm
https://www.rinconvitova.com/aphid%20control.htm#Aphidoletes%20aphidimyza

You might like to look around here. There's several pages.
https://oregonbd.org/Class/Pred.htm
https://www.rinconvitova.com/catalog-beneficials.htm
https://ohioline.osu.edu/b504/b504_7.html
https://www.umext.maine.edu/onlinepubs/htmpubs/7150.htm

I hope that helps you. :) I will look at your site tomorrow as I'm tired now.

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Newt:

Thanks so much for doing the search for me, it would take you a lot of time and energy, I know. I really appreciate your help.

Please read the page about health on my site, I think it will do good for you:

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Health/Lawofhealth/Lawofhealth.htm

also, here is a site about natural remedies, you can find the entries about stroke:

https://www.pathlights.com/nr_encyclopedia/frames08.htm

Since I found this encyclopedia on the internet, I often refer to it to find some simple remedies for my family and friends. And they really work.

For example, my dad once suffered from cataract and peptic ulcer , I found in this encyclopedia, for cataract, it's useful to drop a couple of honey into the eyes daily, and for peptic ulcer, I found that eating raw cabbage leaf and potato is good. And these simple methods really helped.

But most of all, to prevent such kind of diseases such as diabetes, stroke, high blood pressure, the most important and effective measure is to heed a simple vegetarian diet.

4 years ago, my dad suffered from diabetes, cataracts and high blood pressure. He was very pessimistic and sad at that time, for he thought he was going to die soon. Then in 2003, we found an seventh-day adventist church, from them, we came to know the benefit of health living and vegetarian diet. Since then, we began to adopt vegetarian diet. Within half a year, my dad was well from diabetes, cataracts and high blood pressure. Now he is completely normal and healthy. Although he is 2 years to 70 this year, he is so energetic that when we go out for walk, often when I already feel tired, he is still high in spirit and does not feel tired at all. Now he is very happy, and always eager to tell others who are suffering the same diseases as he did years ago.

Take care.

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Newt:

I have put the pictures of beneficial insects on my book, here you can see it:

https://matthew.hitechemall.com/garhvn/Gardening/VeggieGarden/AppBonInsect.htm

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Newt:

The way you live and the food you eat will largely decide your future life. So be very careful about your lifestyle and your diet.

You must abstain from meat, fish, mollusks, egg, milk, sugar, salt, fat, refined food(inculding refined flour, refined rice, refined oil etc), fried food, junk food, pickles, canned food, smoking, coffee, tea, liqour, and other stimulants.

Keep a balanced and nutritious diet of whole grain, fresh fruits and vegetables, kelps and other sea vegetables. If you cook your food, cook it simply without condiments. If you must use oil, use cold pressed linseed oil, olive oil, or it would be better to eat nuts instead of oil. Drink 1500-3000cc water daily and do exercises. Have sufficient sunshine and fresh air. Eat temperately and regularly. Do not overeat. Do not use computer too much, better not to use it for some time.

Soybean, peanut, sesame, sunflower seed, garlic, onion, sweet potato, ginger are said to be good for clearing blood clot, reducing cholesterol, preventing artery hardening. But do not eat them alone, it's enough to include them in your diet.

But most of all, put your trust in God and be cheerful.

Most medication for stroke does more harm than good.

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