Today's post is a quick visual sampler of images from the late 1800s.
Buckbee seemed to enjoy illustrations showing his workers and fields. Proud of his company he let the buyer know they were dealing with a large company that won awards!
I enjoy the many scenes he had drawn for the catalog interior. Remember, seedsmen often used
generic engravings of plants that they could get from the printer so you may spot an identical illustration in different companies' catalogs. The more successful companies with the bigger advertising budgets created the fancy full and 1/2 page special illustrations like this coleus engraving. Notice the copyright notice in the engraving. The varieties, for you coleus nuts, are down below :-)
And then there is this regal cabbage from 1890.
Her is an ad from a newspaper.
Coleus details.
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