An island garden
Celia Thaxter's 1894 account of the flower garden she kept on Appledore Island off the New Hampshire coast, published in Boston and New York by Houghton, Mifflin with colour plates after paintings by Childe Hassam. The plates are loose impressionist watercolours of poppies, hollyhocks and roses massed against weathered fence rails, sea horizon and pale sky, printed on warm cream stock — useful for broken brushwork texture, red-on-green flower clusters and soft empty upper fields for type.
