"What a pretty way to describe it! Do you know any more plants ?" "Only a few! I had a high-school course in botany, but it was all about flower and leaf formation, nothing at all of what anything was good for.
I also learned a few, drawing them for leather and embroidery designs." "Look here!" cried the Harvester.

"I came with an arm load of herbs and expected to tell you all about foxglove, mullein, yarrow, jimson, purple thorn apple, blessed thistle, hemlock, hoarhound, lobelia, and everything in season now; but if you already have a profession, why do you attempt a new one?
Why don't you go on drawing?
I never saw anything so stupid as most of the designs from nature for book covers and decorations, leather work and pottery.

They are the same old subjects worked over and over.

If you can draw enough to make original copies, I can furnish you with flowers, vines, birds, and insects, new, unused, and of exquisite beauty, for every month in the year.

I've looked into the matter a little, because I am rather handy with a knife, and I carve candlesticks from suitable pieces of wood.