Radiant (and bygone?) grapes from an 1890 seed catalog.

Designers of turn-of-the-century and just-after cigarette cards really knew how to pack a lot of beauty into their tiny spaces (typically around 2" by 3", sometimes taller as in this example).

Another nice job, Candy Council admen of the early '50s.

This German postcard depicts the midnight summer sun in Advent Bay, Norway.  It (let alone the phenomenon itself) is so beautiful it can, at the right moments like just now, make Inflammammal's head loll/neck weaken.

An unattributed image from the Harvard online Herbaria collections.  It's flawless obviously, and that one little seed at bottom right somehow heart-rending.

These strawberries should be too stylized for my taste, but instead they're among my very favorite fruit illustrations.  I look at them almost every day and find them calming.  I don't own an original or even a copy, just this digital form.  Van de Mark, 1868:

As they date back only to 1969, the images in the Oxford Book of Food Plants lack the age they require to really move Inflammammal.  But this's a fine, fine watermelon; if I mistakenly believed this image to be 100 years older it'd probably make me cry a little.  Silly business, nostalgia!

These pears have nothing to be ashamed about either (same source):