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Holy Land Wild Flowers:
Members of the utopian Christian American Colony in Jerusalem were avid gardeners and students of cultivated and wild flora. They entered flower shows, painted flower varieties as a hobby, and contributed specimens to natural science teacher John Dinsmore's elaborate Near East herbarium. The Colony supported itself through commercial sale of various products, including beautiful photography of Holy Land landscapes and religious sites marketed in olive-wood cover albums, with elaborately pressed and arranged decorative dried wild flowers. |