Botany

The International Botanical Congress is a meeting of botanists starting in 1900, held every five to six years. They meet to discuss new botanical findings, conservation, and plant naming and categorizing system – among other things. The second set of four stamps on this album page were to commemorate the congress meeting in 1969 in the U.S., in Seattle, Washington.

At that particular conference, the International Association of Bryologists was founded. That relates to bryology, a plant life that’s always been of interest to me. It also includes lichenology. Both include studying ancient and extremely small plant life. There’s something about those plants and the like that have fascinated me.

Note

This page is a little sparse. They could have put more stamps on the page by putting one block of four on the next page, and mixed some of the single stamps from that page with this one. I could do that, redesign these two pages. But as I’ve said before, I’m worn out from making pages for my Italian colony and occupation albums.

Contains 8 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 27, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Plant for More Beauty

1.1	✓	1365	Beautiful Cities	6c (jan 1969) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1366	Beautiful Parks	6c (jan 1969) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1367	Beautiful Highways	6c (jan 1969) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	1368	Beautiful Streets	6c (jan 1969) comm., multicolor

Botanical Congress

3.1	✓	1376	Douglas Fir Pseudotsuga menziesii	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	1377	Showy Lady’s Slipper Cypripedium reginae	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	1378	Ocotillo Fouquieria splendens	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	1379	Franklin Tree Frankinia alatamaha	6c (aug 1969) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.