Botany Quartetts
Botany card game published by Houlston and Wright & Henry Greenwood, c.1860.
A teaching game in slip case labelled “Games of Quartetts No. XII. Compiled expressly for the Instruction and Amusement of Youth. Botany: Distribution of Plants. London. Houlston and Wright, Paternoster Row. Liverpool. Henry Greenwood, Castle Street. 72 cards 1s.6d.” There are no illustrations. See the Rules►
Above: Botany card game published by Houlston and Wright & Henry Greenwood. 72 cards in patterned card box with a printed paper label, c.1860. From the collection of Becky Bevan.
Houlston and Wright & Henry Greenwood published a number of educational card games like this one during the mid-19th century.
By Becky Bevan
Member since March 02, 2019
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