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At the top of the page is the title “The Evergreen” followed by “A Northern Seasonal” and the date “1895”. The word “The” has its own line, and beside it is a decorative strip that depicts a patterned row of flowers. Below the text is a black ink drawing that combines image and text whereby the illustration is contained within the framing of the letter “S” from “Spring.” The lettering is hand-drawn with black borders and left unfilled, the top of the “S” extended into a large loop in which we see a scene of a woman picking flowers in a field. We see the woman in profile from the right: she has dark hair that is untied, her sleeves are rolled back, and she is barefoot. Her shirt is white with black polka dots and her skirt is black. With her right hand she picks tall flowers that resemble irises and in her left hand she holds the ones she has already picked. Within the grass around her feet there grows some small flowers, and some dark shrubbery lies to the left of the scene. The image is displayed in landscape orientation with no border. Below the image reads: “Published in the lawnmarket of Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes and colleagues and in London: by T. Fisher Unwin”.