A wiki index of Flowers using an index of Historic costume & bedcovers or woven coverlets popularized in the 1830s and in storage at the Living History, Conner Prairie , Noblesville, IN site.

1. 50% of all profits go directly
to the collection Preservation
Fund
Symbolism of
Flowers and early
grammar
Illustrated with
1845-1865 images
from Costume &
Coverlets
Included in the
Conner Prarie
Collection

2. Lilies, Cornucopia & 1853 corn spray
Wiki describes cornucopia = The cornucopia (Latin: Cornu Copiae) is a symbol of
food and abundance dating back to the 5th century BC, also referred to as the food of
worship and holiness, Horn of Amalthea, harvest cone, and horn of plenty. In modern
depictions, the cornucopia is typically a hollow, horn-shaped wicker basket filled with various
kinds of festive fruit and vegetables. In North America, the cornucopia has come to be associated
with Thanksgiving and the harvest.

3. 1845 Oak leaf & eagle
Oak leaf = An oak is a tree or shrub in the genus Quercus (pronounced
/ˈ
kwɜrkəs/;[1] Latin "oak tree"), of which about 600 species exist on earth.
Oak leaf cluster, a U.S. military decoration, The rank insignia of Major (US)
and Lieutenant Colonel, as well as Lt Commander and Commander are oak
leaves

4. Peonies & Conch Shell, South eastern theme
Peony= Paeonia suffruticosa Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae : Angiosperms: Eudicots : Core eudicots Order:
Saxifragales Family: Paeoniaceae Genus: Paeonia
Peony or paeony is a name for plants in the genus Paeonia, the only genus in the flowering plant family Paeoniaceae. They are
native to Asia, southern Europe and western North America. Boundaries between species are not clear and estimates of the
number of species range from 25 [1] to 40.[2] Most are herbaceous perennial plants 0.5–1.5 metres tall, but some resemble trees
up to 1.5–3 meters tall. They have compound, deeply lobed leaves, and large, often fragrant flowers, ranging from red to white or
yellow, in late spring and early summer.
For the Pearl S. Buck novel, see Peony (novel).

5. Water Lily, Conch & Daisies
The phrase water lily is used to describe aquatic plants of the
following families, which have lily pads: Nymphaeaceae
Nelumbonaceae (Nelumbo), also called lotus
Water lily may also refer to: Water Lilies, a famous painting series by
Claude Monet

6. Palmetto, Grape Vines
South Carolina Theme , Floral centerpiece
Palmetto= Members of several genera of small palms: the genus Sabal (of
Arecaceae (Palm Tree) family), containing species such the Dwarf Palmetto and the
Sabal palmetto, the Saw Palmetto, Serenoa repens, Silver saw palmetto
(Acoelorraphe wrightii) Place names: United States Palmetto, Florida
, Palmetto, Georgia, Palmetto, Louisiana, Palmetto, Nevada, a ghost town

7. Water Lily & Conch
Conch= A conch (pronounced /ˈ
kɒŋk)[1] is a common name applied to
a number of different species of medium-sized to large sea snails or
their shells, generally those which are large and have a high spire and a
siphonal canal.
True conches are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Strombidae,

8. Wiki describes Urn = An urn is a vase, ordinarily covered and without
handles, that usually has a narrowed neck above a footed pedestal.
"Knife urns" placed on pedestals flanking a dining-room sideboard
were an English innovation for high-style dining rooms of the late
1760s. They went out of fashion in the following decade, in favor of
knife boxes that were placed on the sideboard.
In Classical terms, an urn is a large decorative covered container of
wood, metal, pottery, etc. In furniture, it was a large wooden vase-like
container which was usually set on a pedestal on either side of a side
table.

9. 1846 Values of
Raising Young & the Church

10. Porcelain Doll
with cloth body
Porcelain= Porcelain is a ceramic material made
by heating raw materials, including clay in the
form of kaolin, in a kiln to a 2,192 °F
temperature. The toughness, strength, and
translucence of porcelain are from the
formation of glass . Porcelain derives its
present name from old Italian porcellana
(cowrie shell) because of its resemblance to
the translucent surface of the shell.[1]
Porcelain can informally be referred to as
"china" in some English-speaking countries, as
China was the birth place of porcelain making.[2

11. Floral Spray & Paisley ribbon Brocade on 1860s robe
Paisley= Paisley or Paisley pattern is a droplet-shaped vegetable motif of Indian and
Persian origin. The pattern is sometimes called "Persian pickles" by American
traditionalists, especially quiltmakers,[1] or "Welsh pears" in Welsh textiles .[2]
Resembling a twisted teardrop, the kidney-shaped paisley is Iranian and Indian in
origin, but its western name derives from the town of Paisley, in central Scotland. [3]

12. Printed floral spray on dobby “dot” gauze
Gauze is a thin, translucent fabric with a loose open weave.
Gauze was originally made of silk and was used for clothing. It is now used for many different
things, including gauze sponges for medical purposes.

13. Aster spray on ribbon gauze
Aster=Aster (genus), a genus of flowering plants in the family
Asteraceae

14. Carnation “Nose Gay” with
baby’s breadth

15. Green Printed floral group,
Daisy, peonie, pansies

16. Checker board & Red cross cotton print
dress for a Bisque hand &
porcelain head doll.
Bisque= the terms porcelain doll, bisque doll and china
doll are sometimes used interchangeably. But collectors,
when referring to antique dolls, make a distinction
between china dolls, made of glazed porcelain, and
bisque dolls, made of unglazed porcelain.
Check = A checkerboard is an 8×8 board and the 64
squares are of alternating dark and light color, often red
and black. The term checkerboard also denotes any
rectangular square-tiled board. It refers not to a physical
board but to the mathematical abstraction of such a
board.
The adjective checkered refers to the pattern shown in
many locations, such as the checkered flag used to
signify the end of a vehicle race, or the Purina logo.

17. Carnations =is a herbaceous perennial plant growing to 80 cm
tall. The leaves are glaucous greyish green to blue-green, slender, up to 15 cm
long. The flowers are produced singly or up to five together in a cyme; they
are 3–5 cm diameter, and sweetly scented; the original natural flower color is
bright pinkish-purple,

18. Berry Blooms
Berry= is a term for any small edible fruit. These "berries" are usually
juicy, round or semi-oblong, brightly colored, sweet or sour, and don't
have a stone or pit, although many seeds may be present.
Many berries, such as the tomato, are edible,

19. Pansies on Printed Gauze
Pansy=The modern garden pansy had its origin in the
Iver, Buckinghamshire, estate of James, Lord Gambier, whose gardener
William Thompson began about 1813[4] crossing various viola species with
Viola tricolor. Pansy violets are a large group of hybrid plants cultivated as
garden flowers.

20. Coverlet fragment from Fayette Co, IN
Fragment may refer to: A small part/portion broken off something; debris
Fragment (computer graphics), all the data necessary to generate a pixel in
the frame buffer or a Sentence fragment, a sentence not containing a subject
or a predicate.

21. Stylized 3 color flower
stylized=In geometric abstraction, with a reference to naturalistic
entity. Figurative and representational (or realistic) art often
contains partial abstraction

22. Geometric Blooms

23. Stylized Bird & flower buds

24. Half Medallion filled with blooms
Medallion= is generally a circular object that has been
sculpted, molded, cast, struck, stamped, or some way rendered
with an insignia, portrait, or other artistic rendering.

25. 1849

26. 1851

27. 1856 3 color Tree of Life

28. Thanks to an Avid Researcher, Michael Begley, this project took shape over
years of exploration.