Visit the Ursus Books Web Site and discover the wonderful botanical prints (prints of flowers and plants) they show.

1. The first black and white woodcut print is of a bulb in flower.

2. That is followed by the vibrant green of the artichoke, in Besler's French style. That artichoke could "modern" art.

3. Don't miss the sunflower. Dutch art style.

4. And then comes the delightful print of Maria Sibylla Merian, a Dutch woman of the 17th Century. Did you see the caterpillar? the butterfly? that little pink insect I can hardly make out? How much is going on in that print!

5. The iris comes next. Who do we think of first with irises? Hint: One of his iris paintings is at the Getty. Yes, of course you knew, Van Gogh.

6. Two flowers, bent gently towards one another. Listening?

7. Next, that delightful view of mountains, with a gathering of flower creatures in the valley before them. Aliens, obviously, for they have many eyes, where earthlings would have but two.

8. Ursus sends us away from their delighful gallery with a view of the melon and its vine. Oh, that they were so enticing on our grocery shelves!

Visit often. Thank you, Ursus Books .