Glass Flowers at Harvard
Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka

The glass flowers beautifully photographed in this book were created during the years 1887 to 1936 by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka in Dresden, Germany. Together the Blaschkas made approximately 847 life-size models representing some 780 species and varieties of plants in 164 families, together with over 3,000 detailed models of enlarged flowers and anatomical sections of various floral and vegetative parts of the plants. This book gives the full story of the creation of the models, and the flowers themselves are arranged by families in order of evolution from the simplest to the most complex.

Botanical Museum of Harvard University, 1982, 118 pages, paperback