Presidential Violets, 1900

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
– Abraham Lincoln

 

The Violet House section of the White House conservatory.  The Violet House, half submerged into the south lawn, was used to grow African Violets. Steam-heated pipes line both sides of the greenhouse to provide the warm conditions needed to grow the African Violets.   Sometime before 1902, by Barnett McFee Clinedinst