We use feathers – pheasant feathers, goose feathers, duck feathers, and in this case peacock feathers. The rather wild coloration of this wreath was a special customer request. We have many unique requests, and they are a delight and a challenge to our decorators.
On Sunday January 17, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, learn about North America’s first naturalist, English-born Mark Catesby (1683-1749), who published an early account of the New World’s flora and fauna titled Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The program, free with admission to the garden, will take place at 1 pm. Leslie Overstreet, the Smithsonian Institutions’s Curator of Natural History Rare Books, has authored papers on early books in the natural sciences in the Archives of Natural History and contributed chapters entitled Priority! The dating of scientific names in ornithology (2011) and Gardening by the book (2013). Her primary research has focused for many years on the printing of Mark Catesby’s book. She served as a consultant to the documentary film The Curious Mr. Catesby, produced by the Catesby Commemorative Trust and broadcast on public-television stations across the U.S. in 2009. The preliminary results of her research on Catesby’s book have now been published in The Curious Mr. Catesby (2015).
