tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80954254466563144122024-03-13T00:35:36.818-07:00The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a PacketEmma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.comBlogger576125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-63797972138564230302021-02-14T08:19:00.002-08:002022-09-07T18:25:35.207-07:00Vegetables in Love<p><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> was looking around for a few surreal Valentine postcards from the early 20th century to amuse my friends when I found these! Perfect for my blog on this Valentine Day 2021. </p><p>There are 12 cards in this set by<a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Raphael_Tuck_%26_Sons" target="_blank"> Raphael Tuck and Sons.</a></p><p>Enjoy, my friends.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ay1i7Z9tKwI1QKAuzrzqixHhIgFGlWF5_vKl35Gav_4-vKW4ORa-Etw7-bH6LI-8Z0XHr5zpQvkVMo4v1Gg5MIDR7pKfoi6DlOqgpLWMhpwTXSxsCPaU3Bj3lYWYEFjsYr2QxvtiriY/s769/apple.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="484" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-ay1i7Z9tKwI1QKAuzrzqixHhIgFGlWF5_vKl35Gav_4-vKW4ORa-Etw7-bH6LI-8Z0XHr5zpQvkVMo4v1Gg5MIDR7pKfoi6DlOqgpLWMhpwTXSxsCPaU3Bj3lYWYEFjsYr2QxvtiriY/w403-h640/apple.png" width="403" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHDIGrDJfrYUSWn8RaWUeDUzrQuLwPGnHggGA1ovqqCttsHzmtiVTGi1PMjd_x1LdYG0zWGA0TibZBI-I9HH21pkP4n0jQgvrDuKTZkRvQI3aUUjd6tFQ7WoVZ0h6K5Lz_-OS5obgoXM/s768/beet.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="495" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZHDIGrDJfrYUSWn8RaWUeDUzrQuLwPGnHggGA1ovqqCttsHzmtiVTGi1PMjd_x1LdYG0zWGA0TibZBI-I9HH21pkP4n0jQgvrDuKTZkRvQI3aUUjd6tFQ7WoVZ0h6K5Lz_-OS5obgoXM/w413-h640/beet.png" width="413" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictrba1vkJVUOQayezHrPOF13TFtgnoU6SG_ltXa0BdMqAS_aoe8K6l76sprHvbnrXcVV4VldkbaWZi9Raxg8JVpAdZS6VGWpi91US_Ah6UcUroQDS91BuZV6fSqdC00dzwG8vFZ-vcSw/s768/carrot.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="495" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEictrba1vkJVUOQayezHrPOF13TFtgnoU6SG_ltXa0BdMqAS_aoe8K6l76sprHvbnrXcVV4VldkbaWZi9Raxg8JVpAdZS6VGWpi91US_Ah6UcUroQDS91BuZV6fSqdC00dzwG8vFZ-vcSw/w413-h640/carrot.png" width="413" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBQ3YFxfImSosoT0yPHwFcRYwCzD1jV_EcTnBxTM-Q0zWXWwUEJCT37GDEzy4Gjfe0EBbMZVxdLxNvMbJYFM6Z1W3c_M7oOwIGw64tM4SIQJXy_UhsHo7GgIzOW2w6ijkOcbBcrS8ZpE/s770/strawberry.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="770" data-original-width="493" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDBQ3YFxfImSosoT0yPHwFcRYwCzD1jV_EcTnBxTM-Q0zWXWwUEJCT37GDEzy4Gjfe0EBbMZVxdLxNvMbJYFM6Z1W3c_M7oOwIGw64tM4SIQJXy_UhsHo7GgIzOW2w6ijkOcbBcrS8ZpE/w410-h640/strawberry.png" width="410" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKX6Svb-uduhpcvwZ5cy6xZ-L9hcpQd48CKx8GTde4DjiPd8SR8W3Y7yDAwCjE4gq0RV9C7sTzO4wj4oYQlD-_bWOzelfHpCo763ort-UaN20WKCyPkwDMesPHib7ZPx-ZIaWzyYqqUpCabi1OixL2q__VgU9DKK4KUpvQTJhA57MIXZ01Ii5xG6T/s1600/b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1028" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHKX6Svb-uduhpcvwZ5cy6xZ-L9hcpQd48CKx8GTde4DjiPd8SR8W3Y7yDAwCjE4gq0RV9C7sTzO4wj4oYQlD-_bWOzelfHpCo763ort-UaN20WKCyPkwDMesPHib7ZPx-ZIaWzyYqqUpCabi1OixL2q__VgU9DKK4KUpvQTJhA57MIXZ01Ii5xG6T/w412-h640/b.jpg" width="412" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfWynsddqjyTcMBdt8UFQSNgOKp1bWBA6whEXl8aBDgP5p4T6faZ592Tjyq0w2pgLR7nzTJJ9z86uY0JFiyfZETFLKZbe4zBzkFbwhJhN8KOnuDdvQU-ZPvKKRE8wsat-_nznhw63MnN7wZRVafsrI8mNbfwmm0NzoX4pqycStE8Qj4XGFokWpB6h/s1600/c.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1025" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkfWynsddqjyTcMBdt8UFQSNgOKp1bWBA6whEXl8aBDgP5p4T6faZ592Tjyq0w2pgLR7nzTJJ9z86uY0JFiyfZETFLKZbe4zBzkFbwhJhN8KOnuDdvQU-ZPvKKRE8wsat-_nznhw63MnN7wZRVafsrI8mNbfwmm0NzoX4pqycStE8Qj4XGFokWpB6h/w410-h640/c.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br />Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-50648227952391456342018-06-20T13:49:00.000-07:002018-06-20T13:49:22.187-07:001901 - A Maiden's Cheek and Lovely Litho Dots<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>wasn't going to share the cover of the 1901 Burpee catalog cover as it looked so saccharine.<br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: large;">But</span></i>, when I saved it at full scan resolution it was lovely.<br />
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The apple cheeked maiden just glowed!<br />
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I am such a sucker for a fun bird's eye view lithograph, and, for some reason, the architectural boastings of seedsmen.<br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-74988468762756877082018-06-18T13:58:00.002-07:002018-06-19T08:04:20.526-07:001874 - Seedsman Bruggerhof's Noroton Home - Still There?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2018/06/1847-grand-old-man-of-seed-trade.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">F</span>rederick Bruggerhof</a>, president of the J. M. Thorburn & Co., in 1889 sent a photo to The Garden magazine of a fine copper beech growing on his grounds in Connecticut. You can just see a corner of his house.<br />
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An address was given for Bruggerhof's home in a <a href="http://www.norotonchurch.org/spire/December2014/December_Spire_2014.pdf" target="_blank">history of another house</a> in the Noroton area of Darien, Connecticut. When I looked it up in Google street view all you see is his drive leading to a glimpse of the house. You can't tell if it is the same house or not.</div>
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However, the aerial view matches the engraving! The house still stands. The shutters are gone but you can't miss the window arch or the second floor bay window. <br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-59543374651335798922018-06-17T08:57:00.002-07:002018-06-17T08:57:45.083-07:001857 - Tantalizing Titbit: Seedsmen J. M. Thorburn & Co. Peel Off the Brother-in law<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-71388154639039351942018-06-13T18:03:00.000-07:002018-06-13T18:03:13.383-07:001909 - Livingston Seed Co., on Columbus, Ohio's Main Street<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Tracking down where this 1909 postcard was drawn was so much fun! <br />
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This very cool postcard has enough clues to allow identifying the seed store as the Livingston Seed Company store. <br />
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The store with "The Union" sign is The Union Clothing Store at the corner of Long and High. That fits with Livingston's address of 114 High Street. The lighted arches are wonderful!!<br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-64914425829828457992018-06-12T17:40:00.001-07:002018-06-12T17:40:51.868-07:001923 - "Mighty Poor Stuff" - Bad Day for Cinnamon Vines<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In <a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2016/03/1896-t-cooks-cinnamon-vine.html" target="_blank">1896 A. T. Cook was offering Cinnamon Vines</a> as the answer to the nurseryman's prayer for a great selling vine. <br />
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He continued contracting growers to supply the tubers for many years. <br />
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This note turned up on eBay illustrating some problems.<br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-60723814833583780422018-06-12T17:39:00.002-07:002018-06-12T17:39:24.329-07:001922 - A. T. Cook Still A. T. Cook<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">P. T. Barnum, <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;">self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbugs”,</span> comes to mind when I think of Cook. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This illustration of Cinnamon Vine from his 1922 catalog is a picture of healthy fecundity gone rampant! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the days before air conditioning the leaf cover would help keep your house cooler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Shirley Dare wrote in 1888 for the American Garden about the many benefits of vines on the house, from privacy to hiding the house's need for paint! She advised it would keep you "cooler in summer and warmer in winter". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Warmer in winter? Assuming leaves were still on it, I <i>suppose</i> it could weaken winds that could infiltrate...but it sounds far fetched to me.</span><br /><br /><br /><br />
More posts on this interesting man:<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://1898%20-%20a.%20t.%20cook%20is%20at%20it%20again%20with%20the%20%22vegetable%20peach%22/" target="_blank">1898 - A. T. Cook Is At It Again with the "Vegetable Peach"</a><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-t-cook-seedsman-and-temperance-man.html" target="_blank">1905 - A. T. Cook, Seedsman and Temperance Man</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2017/04/1923-mr-cooks-roots-disappoint-mrs.html" target="_blank">1923 - Mr. Cook's Roots Disappoint Mrs. Graves</a><br /><i>This post relates to the Cinnamon Vine :-)</i></span><br /><a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2016/03/a-t-cook-good-advice-on-more-than-seeds.html" target="_blank">A. T. Cook - Good Advice on More Than Seeds</a><br />
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Windows arranged with plants are very attractive when tasteful selections are made, and they are well cared for. Nothing adds more to the beauty or a room, and nothing is more cheering than blooming plants. <br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">
A window arranged with morning glories looks like an outdoor bank of the dainty little flower bells, and yet it must be planned and watched to bring about this natural grace through cultivation. </div>
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A network of cord is fastened so that when the vines grow large enough they will begin to climb upon it, growing upward and toward the center of the room. </div>
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The cords are fastened to the edge of the box inside, and when the plants are old enough to remain where they are trained, the net can be dropped to the floor, leaving an overflowing bank starred with blight blossoms of pink, blue purple and white intermingled.<br />
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The cords or net must not be fastened downward permanently, but as often as convenient the bank should be lifted up when the sun shines, and the windows opened in warm weather to give them fresh air and make them grow more hardily. </div>
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Besides, this is more convenient when sweeping is done so vines are not in the way and liable to be injured.<br />
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<br />To get more of a feel for the seriousness of window gardening just look at this!<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwnvwBckBCauDT4NH3Wqw2UJKkh0bOlXTkPPiQko6h7lCw7o9s6lCEE3K96f2Vj3nvj9ocxWxrPH1IHkbT8VUBVnodatOoNHXbxpgYTNvaU23pn2KVNYMJOm-c8OLzSJtT91VXj8On0w/s1600/Screen+Shot+2018-06-06+at+7.59.58+PM.png"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYwnvwBckBCauDT4NH3Wqw2UJKkh0bOlXTkPPiQko6h7lCw7o9s6lCEE3K96f2Vj3nvj9ocxWxrPH1IHkbT8VUBVnodatOoNHXbxpgYTNvaU23pn2KVNYMJOm-c8OLzSJtT91VXj8On0w/s640/Screen+Shot+2018-06-06+at+7.59.58+PM.png" /></a><br />This photo was published in 1894 in American Gardening in an article titled <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=oJc_AQAAMAAJ&dq=morning%20glory%20in%20pots&pg=PA239#v=onepage&q&f=false">The Ideal Window Garden.</a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Morning-Glories for the Window-Garden.</b></div>
<br />—If there is a more beautiful flower than the morning glory it has never been introduced to us. The only drawback to its general use is its cheapness, which destroys the reputation of any plant. Just make the morning-glory cost one dollar a plant and societies in its honor would spring up all over the country. <br /><br />But the morning-glory has virtues not generally known or appreciated. It is a perfect success as a window-plant. Put a few seeds, say six, in a six-inch pot, and within a few weeks they will be in bloom, and that before they make any attempt at climbing; the first flowers coming with the second pairs of leaves.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: right;">
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<br /><br />In a <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=yQwifpdaKHYC&dq=morning%20glory%20in%20pots&pg=RA1-PA201#v=onepage&q=morning%20glory%20in%20pots&f=false">Godey's Magazine and Lady's Book of 1844</a> the morning glory was being used for shade.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These were planted in capacious pots, and trained like geraniums to clamber over large fan-spreading frames.<br /></span><br />
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<br /><br />In <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn02AQAAMAAJ&dq=morning%20glory%20in%20pots&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q=morning%20gloy&f=false">1838 The Prairie Farmer</a> suggested using morning glories for beautifying.<br /><br />The morning glory is so well known, as to make description presumptuous. There are, however, two or three species, and more varieties. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />The common mode of growing them is to plant the seed under the window, and train them up the sides of the house. The effect is pleasing, especially when the house happens to be of rough logs, though it is doubted if those yielding fragrancy us well as bloom might not be substituted to advantage near windows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />Lastly, this article by James Bancroft from Success With Flowers, A Floral Magazine<br /></span><br />
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<br />IT is, perhaps, advisable to assume a quiet resignation when asked exasperating questions in floral matters, and it is then that questions asking for cultural directions for raising Morning Glories can be treated with the gentlest and fullest consideration; but when a certain line is overstepped, it may be more satisfactory when the question is asked, "What is a Morning Glory anyhow?" to snub the questioner by assuring him that he would never become a Morning Glory unless he changed his habits and rose much earlier than the customary middle of the forenoon.<br /><br />At a recent exhibition in a large city, two ladies, upon seeing a many-flowered branch of Allamanda, stopped to admire the " lovely yellow Morning Glories," as they called them, though one of the ladies hesitated to give them that name saying that she had never seen yellow ones before; but on the emphatic assertion of the other lady, she moved away apparently satisfied. There was certainly no harm done here, unless either of these ladies should afterwards assert that she had seen yellow Morning Glories, and therefore knew such existed.<br /><br />There can be but few cultural directions to give regarding this flower, but perhaps the following pgintsmay be interesting, for no garden is complete without the Convolvulus Major, or Morning Glory, as it is commonly called. In gardens, where it is grown, it is not necessary to sow the seed, for the dry seed pods still hanging on the vine will protect the seed in the severest Winter, dropping the seed the ensuing Spring. The young plants can be destroyed when spading up the ground in the Spring, or they may be retained, or transplanted to other locations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some people like to set a few around the Hawthorns, Spireas, or such like shrubbery, but when planted in such locations the vine will respond with a greater number and better quality of blossoms if set out in a hole full of rich earth.<br /><br />The vines will readily run up the bushes, the green leaves of both blending with each other, and in August, and all through the Fall until frost, the bushes will present a lovely appearance in the morning hours, or on dismal, cloudy days, covered with the different red, white or blue blossoms. A screen of wire netting arranged in front of the refuse heap was one year covered with these vines, and made a beautiful appearance. Another year they were allowed to run over an old Grapevine, and the past year in addition to the Grapevine they have run up some tall Russian Sunflowers, and nestle and peep out of the broad green leaves with great effect.<br /><br />Like most climbing plants their habit is to mount in a direct line, but they can with occasional attention be woven into horizontal lines on the trellis; even if left to themselves their leaves will fill a trellis better than Scarlet Runner, Flowering Cucumber or other quick-growing climber. In making a screen a good idea is to combine all these climbers and plant some of each. This will give a variation of leaf and also of color among the flowers.<br /><br />When planted around or near Dahlias, Cannas and the like, the vines should not be set out till the larger plants have made a good tall growth, else the vine will soon run to the top and fling out its long finger anxious for more support and seemingly disheartened by the lack.<br /><br />When seeds of the different-colored flowers are desired to be separated, while the flowers are in bloom tie a string of the same color around the vine, and at and time after frost, or even on a pleasant Winter day, the pods can be picked, the husks rubbed off, and the seeds put into envelopes properly marked as to the color of the flower shown by the string.<br /><br />Two strings of different colors and a single string on a vine is all that is necessary, but greater accuracy may be secured by using more twine.<br /><br />The bud of the Morning Glory only opens once, but as they come in clusters a succession of flowers is assured.<br /><br />Where it can be given plenty of air, the Morning Glory does fairly well grown indoors; its blossoms are usually much smaller. There are so many climbers more suitable for house culture, more desirable as a change from Summer flowers, that it is natural to feel that the garden is its proper place.—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">V</span>ick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Floral Guide had these border suggestions for the 1887 gardens. I liked the look of the page, the simple pink gypsophila, the multi-colored leptosiphon... the what?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What sort of name is that?! Leptosiphon </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">sounds more like part of an octopus!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Leptosiphon. Now that is a name not jiggered by any commercial hopes. It is a seriously un-cute name!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wondered, could it have stayed so aggressively unlovely for 120 years? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then I looked it up, and yes - it <i><b>can</b></i> stay so aggressively unlovely!</span><br />
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Miss MacDonnell appears to be a formidable woman of many interests, including horticulture and beekeeping. I first encountered her in the article on <a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2018/05/1891-mr-loves-long-life-with-bees.html">Mr. Love</a> - the good man who loved both pinks and his bees. She gave him a hive of bees, and the article added she won prizes for her large honey combs at competitions. This article is a charming introduction to early 19th century Scotland.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'I was born at Glengarry on Loch Oich, the highest part of the Caledonian Canal, on September 27th, 1814, and quite close to the site of the old castle, which was blown up by Cumberland in 1746—a few yards from the garden in which the bees were kept. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am the fourth daughter of Colonel Ranaldson Macdonell, of Glengarry and Clan Ranald. My mother was a daughter of Sir William Forbes of Pitsligo, Bart., and before her marriage, at twenty-two, lived in Edinburgh. There were seven daughters of us and seven sons; six of the latter died under three years of age. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We were a bright and cheerful family, full of mental and bodily vigour among the mountains and glens of our Highland home. My mother was a very clever person in many ways, and wag quite bewildered at her new mode of life, having to send a horse and cart to Inverness (forty-two miles) for some coarse needles the housekeeper wanted: but many other useful articles came back in the cart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">After the games there was always dancing to the pipes in the evening, and the foresters and deer-stalkers did dance well. No one could appear at those games and dance, but in the Highland dress, kilts and plaids, looking beautiful.<br /><br /><br />When any entertainment took place on a Saturday my mother was most careful to put the clocks forward twenty minutes, so that the house should be cleared before twelve o'clock. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> About 1824 the <a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Caledonian+Canal/@57.479435,-4.2494949,3a,92y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1shttps:%2F%2Fwww.myhighlands.de%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F02%2FCaledonian-Canal-Museum.jpg!2e7!3e27!6s%2F%2Flh3.googleusercontent.com%2Fproxy%2Fd0bpuwJr4vCQKJEARAH-otgPviYFOSe3oqrSLxw7xa4NDT6wtelIAtpMXMUoyfC5MgAjB7NZGwCsDVuF2eq1SOFX2sZRr6PfA7F2ALBWpuM3xPHOHnuX_3DecfPL5Pnpj6faUZLB4OtvOVisLhU-tCn5-g580A%3Dw159-h106-k-no!7i1000!8i666!4m5!3m4!1s0x488f2140032d6b77:0x4c0d8640ac8a607d!8m2!3d57.1716992!4d-4.6785188" target="_blank">Caledonian Canal</a> was opened, and after this our first boat-load of coals arrived at Glengarry; formerly nothing was burned but peat. My father had a large and handsome barge built, and that same year I remember seeing the first two hives of bees arrive. My father was very anxious for everything that would ameliorate the condition of his people; he had an intense liking for all national things, which I inherited.</span><br />
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We three schoolroom girls were as wild as young goats on the arrival of a new governess from Edinburgh. Before she got to the front door a large deer-hound seized her muff and took it from her; her eldest pupil appeared at once and presented her with it, after scolding the dog in Gaelic. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Without shops, the advent of a packman was hailed with delight, and justified our vanishing from the presence of the governess. The only other excusable occasion was a dogfight: at the first sound we were off and in the thick of the battle, to rescue a visitor's dog from the fangs of the deer-hounds; we had many of them, my father being very fond of deer-stalking. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was he who presented Sir Walter Scott with "Maida", his favourite stag-hound, named after the tattle in which my uncle, Lieut-Col. Sir James Macdonell fought. It was this same uncle who held the gates of Hougoumont at Waterloo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><br />After our father's death we came to reside at Merchiston Castle, near Edinburgh.<br /><br />We soon came to consider the confinement quite dreadful, and began to wonder how long it would take us to run some three hundred miles back to Glengarry again, so we measured how often round the battlements made a mile.<br /><br /><br /><br />We started with as many bits of wood in our hands, leaving a piece each time we came to our starting-point. On these battlements we might sing our Gaelic songs as much and as loud as we liked. One day our governess was told by a friend that he had been quite startled when walking on the road by singing in the air, which no doubt emanated from the battlements.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I remember seeing a large crock of Glengarry honey when we lived at Merchiston Castle in '28 or '29. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We came to live in Bute in '41, and in '46 we bought a couple of hives near Mount Stuart, and used Cotton's book as our guide. Our efforts in bee-culture at that time were not successful, after a long and varied experience, purchasing all sorts of hives and quite overloaded with bee-gear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His apiary consisted chiefly of storified colonies, cultivated with success in Scotland centuries before the word "Tiering" was invented in America. All the combs in his hives were movable, in frames or bars, and in the shallow supers as well. His very beautiful watering device we admired much, as well as his original rotating Observatory hive, which had great attractions for us.<br /><br />My sister was the first to set up a Stewarton colony, and I followed. They proved a great success, and we had the pleasure of exhibiting our beautiful supers at Rothesay Show.<br /><br />The "Renfrewshire Bee-keeper " kindly gave us in 1880 the use of his trained boy, and he quite charmed us; so much so, we begged the loan of Peter again, and for that Saturday invited a few friends to a garden party at Lochna-Gaoidh to witness his doings.<br /><br />The little fellow gave a few puffs of smoke from his brown-paper roll, doffed a cover, drew the slides, and explained it was necessary to give the bees time to supply themselves with food, then raised the frames, and handed them about, showing the queen and all the internal economy of the hive—and such an expert was he that he restored everything to its original condition without a sting to any one. Eleven years have sped past, and though Peter Kerr is now a full-fledged engineer, he comes to assist me still.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">My Renfrewshire friend kindly ordered for me a similar Observatory to his own. It was setup in the drawing-room at Loch-na-Qaoidh, since removed to my present house in Rothesay. Nothing affords me greater pleasure on a holiday than having the teachers and children of my initiatory school up for a bee-lesson—our School Board teachers and children, too. They are then shown how loyal the bees are to their queen, forming a body-guard around her, court etiquette practiced, retiring backwards before her. Each bee is prepared, if need be, to go forth and lay down its life "in defense of Queen and country".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> was just tucking some more pansies into large pot when I noticed a </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">lovely yellow one growing in the ground nearby, from last year's pansies that went to seed! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The surprise of finding it made it even more charming. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Upshot of all that is I dusted off a draft </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">on pansy history </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">that had been sitting around waiting to be finished. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I couldn't find many illustrations of the pansies named which is why I had shelved it. But, he was a good man and deserves being remembered.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"...among amateurs no name stands higher than that of Peter Lyle of Kilbarchan."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The great popularity of the pansy, which reminds me a little bit of Tulip Mania, is extraordinary. This article from </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Pansy is essentially a Scottish flower, at once the most popular with first-rate florists and the most generally grown by the ordinary floral amateurs, from John O'Groats to Maidenkirk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Singularly enough, this is also the year when Mr. Peter Lyle was born, who, more than any other Pansy grower, has developed the flower by raising some of the very best sorts we yet possess, while from his youth he has kept true to the love of his heart, and is even now as keen and successful a grower of the flower as ever he was, as the grand beds he had to show last summer testified. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">While many districts in Scotland are associated with Pansy growing, such as Campsie, Newmilns, Vale of Leven, and others, Paisley has been the headquarters, and Kilbarchan, five miles west of the county town, has been noted for the enthusiasm of its florists, and may be counted as second in eminence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">When Mr. Lyle was but a lad his zeal for gardening manifested itself in real hard work. So anxious was he to get his father's garden dug that he has done it three times in one spring ere the right time come, with just "the sid" of weather to justify the sowing of seeds. The Pansy growers from whom Mr. Lyle caught "the fever" were Wm. Campbell, Duncan Cairney, James Dick, James Gilmore and John Love, the last named being figured in the Journal of Horticulture, October 1st, 1891. <span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-small;">(John Love was also from Kilbarchan. He was fond of pinks.)</span></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Raising seedlings was the great hobby of the time, and when Mr. Lyle was twenty-five years of age, he went to his first show in Kilbarchan in 1848. Before that date shows had been attended in Paisley, and a few friends met there from time to time in the evenings to discuss new blooms, and Mr. Lyle had to walk home in the dark the five miles to Kilbarchan. To him this was no hardship, as he has ever been wonderfully quick of foot, and his fine constitution and wiry frame are even yet remarkably evident. In the year 1850, or thereby, a great show of Pansies and other flowers took place in Falkirk, but Mr. Lyle did not attend it, traveling thirty miles was not so expeditiously performed then as now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An old friend of my own, however, attended that show, Mr. James Peddie, gardener to John Gordon, Esq., of Aikenhead, Cathcart. As a gardener and keen florist the West of Scotland had no other to equal him, and his taste in Pansies was perfect. Mr. Peddie's first competition in Pansies was at Falkirk, and when he staged his blooms all eyes turned on the young fair-haired gardener and his stand of flowers. The Secretary, the late Mr. Charles Jeffrey, at once was struck with the stand and complimented the exhibitor thereon, saying "he was sure no finer lot would be shown, and that this would be adjudged first." </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was so, and from that day the real Scottish taste for Pansies may date, as thereafter the flower was a leading feature everywhere. I cannot name the blooms which were shown at Falkirk, but the following were the varieties most in vogue about that time—viz., </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000;">The only one of the above mentioned I could find. *sigh*</span></td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yellow grounds — </span>Duke of Norfolk, <u style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Robert Burns</u><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, Gilbert Burns, Sir Charles Napier;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">white grounds, Miss Talbot, Lizzie, British <br />Queen, Mountain of Snow;</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">yellow selfs, Wonderful and Climax.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Glasgow on 9th September, 1852, in George's Square, set out in tents, the tug of war came which decided the Pansy championship, and a full report was inserted in the Glasgow Herald. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here Mr. Lyle met Mr. Peddie, and was awarded the first prize in gardeners' and amateurs' classes for twenty-four blooms in each. A friend informed Mr. Peddie that he was surpassed by a man who had only 9 yards of a garden. This was true, yet could not be believed; so a gentleman was sent out to Kilbarchan to prospect, and on his return declared that the fact was so, and further that from the same plants in that small garden Mr. Lyle could stage forty-eight blooms any day, which would defy Scotland to beat them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It will be historically interesting to name the blooms as well as to show the source of our present stock as exhibited at Glasgow Show in 1852. The gardeners' class were: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">France Cycole,</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lady Mackenzie, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Aurora, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Royal Visit. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Princess Royal, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Jerome, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Queen of England, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marchioness of Breadalbane. </span></li>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Forgive me, but I just had to look up the </span></span>Marchioness of Breadalbane<span style="font-family: "times";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">. I found this evocative quote in a Google snippet - "</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">...</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;">Marquis of Breadalbane</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;"> came forward, when her Majesty cordially took his hand, and alighted from the carriage, followed by Prince Albert. Her Majesty was received by the </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small; font-weight: bold;">Marchioness of Breadalbane</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: x-small;">, whom she ...". </span><span style="background-color: white;">I didn't look harder or further. </span></span></i></span></blockquote>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Rainbow, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Duke of Perth, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Norah, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maggie Lyle, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Othello, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Marchioness of Lothian. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Duke of Norfolk, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Pizarro, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Polyphemus, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Juventa, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Supreme. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There were two seedlings and Elegant, Sir Wm. Rae, and Lucy Neale. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the amateurs' class they were somewhat the same, varied by Gulnare, Napoleon, Princess Louisa, and Robert Burns. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is well to note that while to-day we have not one of these victorious varieties, we have some with similar names, as Robert Burns, which is still grown, but not the flower then exhibited. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Again, there have been two distinct "Royal Visits" to commemorate Her Majesty's coming to Glasgow.<br /><br />From this date a universal taste for Pansies took possession of our florists. High prices were paid for a small quantity of rare seed, and very soon the increase in fine flowers became notable, while the standard of excellence was gradually raised for form, colour, texture, belting, blotch, and last, but not least, the eye. These six points must be met in a bloom, each point being nearly perfect, or, if one is deficient, the flower is condemned. Size may be counted the seventh point; as, however well up the Pansy may be otherwise, if it is less than 1 1/2 inch in diameter it is not well grown.<br /><br />Mr. Lyle's success continued, as he was a frequent prizewinner, notwithstanding the extended ranks of competitors. Then his seedlings were famous, only the real beauties being sent out by him. Of many sorts raised, he often gave those away which friends admired, and his name as raiser was never linked with them at all, while the gems were eagerly sought after, and high prices given for them. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For instance, for two, named Capt. Spiers and Emily Lyle, the late Wm. Paul gave him £7; then for a beautiful one named Maggie Lyle he received £3 10s. from Messrs. Begg & Paul, who brought it out; while for twenty cuttings of one or two promising seedlings he would be paid £1. Nurserymen gladly add to their collections in this way, as amateurs usually concentrate their energies on one class of flowers, and the result is, as with Mr. Lyle, very special successes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A few of the most famous Show Pansies, raised by various florists, are as follows :</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Countess of Roslin, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Hugh Austin, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lavinia, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Lady Lucy Dundas, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Miss E. Cochrane, </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Countess of Strathmore</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Flower of the Day. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Of dark selfs some were really fine, and if Rev. H. H. D'Ombrain could be rediscovered today it would be yet prized. This one endured for more years than any other. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Irene was introduced by Mr. Middlemass, and was very fine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Black Douglas, and W. B. Spiers and Gem followed—the last a beauty, but small, though as a judge said, it was " guid, guid !" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The late Thos. Hastie, of Strathaven, raised one long esteemed by growers, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;">called James Dalzell, and which we still grow. Later Luna, and then Alexr. Watt, and David Malcolm brings the tale down to recent years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; text-align: center;"> A white ground (Jane Grieve) was, however, the greatest wonder perhaps of any Show Pansy ever introduced.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The method of culture pursued by Mr. Lyle may be of service to many lovers of his favourite </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">flower. The cuttings are taken in September and set in cold frames in good soil and a little sand, lightly watered, and closed and shaded for a week or so, and air gradually admitted afterwards. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">During winter the frame is not kept rigidly closed, but raised a little to allow air to enter and escape in all ordinary weather, but closed in extreme frost. It is damp which destroys the Pansy.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></div>
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After rains, when the earth is sodden, stir it freely between the plants with a hand-fork. This admits air, and the Pansy, though fond of moisture, cannot endure it to be stagnant. Until the plants grow and look robust, pluck off all the flower buds that show.When liquid manure is given it must be very weak, and in dry weather the plants must not be allowed to flag. As to the much talked of disease, healthy plants to start with are the best preventive; while new soil, in which Pansies have not been previously grown, will almost certainly keep back the invader.</div>
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Mr. Lyle's garden faces the south, and has been in cultivation for 150 years. Since he entered it, in 1861, it has only been trenched twice. Not a weed is to be seen, and though narrow it is long. In trade a joiner, he has always been employed at home, and therefore well placed to give his flowers regular care. Now, when nearing threescore years and ten, he finds enjoyment and exercise sufficient for his abounding vitality in his garden. His foot is still light and buoyant, and his cheery spirit gay as ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">His children are away from home, one only having opportunity to develop the paternal taste for flowers. His wife and he dwell in their own property, and are comfortable and free from worldly care. In March Mr. Lyle will grow Pansies in seed boxes, prick out the seedlings in April into his empty frame, and plant in open ground in June, and be as happy in September over his seedlings, with many friends, as if toil and hardship had never been nigh him all his days. New sorts will be added to the long list he has raised, let us trust even superior to Mauve Queen, Mrs. Jno. Bolton, Marquis of Lorne, Mrs. Gladstone, Mrs. Arthur, and the rest of his floral achievements, the praises of which we see in all the Pansy catalogues.<br /><br />Many have worked in the same field with him, but to Mr. Lyle is due, more than to any other single person, the honour of having raised the Show Pansy to the perfection it has now reached. —<i>Alexander Sweet.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This article was published in the </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening, Vol. 23. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />While driving in September from Bridge of Weir to Kilbarchan (Renfrewshire) we had begun to descend the hill above the latter town, when turning our eyes to the left we saw a wonderful crop of Apples, and found that the place was called Mount Pleasant. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The present owner most obligingly escorted us around this fruitful orchard, and we soon found that what was to be seen from the highway was but a sample of the whole stock.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In making inquiry we found that about sixty years since the substantial house had been built by one John Tarbet, an old soldier who had in his time been a bombardier at the taking of Martinique. He had an eye for a fine Bite anyhow, and we can fancy him, while the days were declining, looking over the beautiful country around him and thinking how he could command with his artillery any radical rising which his keen political townsmen might be tempted to undertake. He planted fruit trees instead of batteries of cannon, and after his decease the place came to a relative, Mr. Climie, who continued the garden in cultivation, and his daughter married Mr. Love, the subject of our sketch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />About the year 1840 the young couple came to reside there. With a large garden to keep in order the evening hours were spent at home. In spring time useless trees were regrafted with good bearing sorts, if possible several different kinds being put on each tree. The old Keswick Codlin, the more modern Stirling Castle, with the best of the purely local varieties as the Lochwinnoch Pippin and the Golden Leadington (a variety whose name was suggested by Dr. Hogg) were carefully inserted, and now this year are just loaded with fruit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A curious feature in grafting we observed, and which Mr. Love rejoices over yet, is his successful experiment of placing a Pear on a Hawthorn stock. The thorn is one of many stems, gnarled and twisted most curiously, while the Pear scion is inserted about 5 feet from the ground. To graft Plums on Thorn trees is not uncommon, but in another garden in Kilbarchan there is a Rowan Tree (Mountain Ash) with a Pear graft on it yielding even better results than this experiment at Mount Pleasant.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here we see the old Caledonian Plum in fruit on its own roots. Some years it is so overloaded as to resemble the trees we see in the Vale of Evesham, but this is not a productive year apparently with it. In this old garden of an acre, or thereby, the trees arc thickly placed together, many now interwarped in their branches, while beneath them are Gooseberries and Currants galore.<br /><br />The soil is a rich, red, vegetable mould, sloping to the south, but fully exposed to all the winds that blow. The Rose succeeds to perfection, and old-fashioned border flowers were beautiful, from the Snowdrops of January and February, till the blue autumn Crocus of September were buried beneath a whirling cover of bright October's leaves. All through the summer the busy bees of "friend John" were gathering honey from every flower and blossom, fertilizing the fruit trees, and largely adding to their production, as we all know who have fruit gardens and bees. The hives used were "the time-honoured "straw skeps of John's father and grandfather, and many a lovely "top" of pure honey our worthy friend has taken off here.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The Renfrewshire Bee-keeper" befriended Mr. Love, and many a hard question on their favourite subject has been discussed between them. Alas! for so many of us that he, who so well exemplified in his own life 'the grand old name of gentleman " is now gone for ever and ever, while of all who now mourn his loss John Love's sorrow for his kind friend is not the least. Not a doubt of it, for to a man of over eighty-five years new friends do not succeed quickly, and are never like the old ones. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br />In a sunny space the plot is still defined where Mr. Love grew and raised his celebrated race of laced Pinks. Year after year in this spot they were grown to such perfection as to carry off the honours at all the shows round, from Glasgow to Eilbarchan. At every digging new soil was turned up, and thus the situation continued to suit his favourite flower. What grand specimens of the dark "Pirate" and "John Love," were cut here.<br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every year seedlings were watched for, and the advent of a pod of promise was an event for local florists to come and see. Altogether the garden is one, for soil, situation, and association, much to be desired still. Now, however, the old veteran still keeps to the Pinks, fruits, and the bees, in a less vigorous fashion than of old in a new garden farther "doon the toon." Hale and wiry, with eye bright and keen, active step, and toil-worn hand, we trust that he may long enjoy his garden joys. And though "down in the valley" the long shadows of life's sunset are falling around him, and the last bees are settling home with their store, he has but to look upward and see that Mount Pleasant is glowing in the light, to have the glory of far distant summers borne in upon him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As we go homewards up through the narrow street the people are in crowds, while the flower show is attracting all the florists of the district. Time to gather honey, but not for themselves, so John Love's work was not for himself. He sowed, and today we wear his seedlings in our buttonhole. Younger men take up the love for flowers, but let them look with respect and gratitude on their horticultural ancestors into whose labours the have entered. A. SWEET </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every man, apart from the profession or employment by which he gains a livlihood, ought to have what is usually called a hobby. It matters little what that hobby is, provided it is innocent, and interests </span>his mind and draws his attention away from the anxiety and worry which belong to the daily business of life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Idleness, whether of body or mind, besides being morally dangerous, is not rest. It is better to have a hobby which, by giving an agreeable change of employment, will refresh and improve both body and mind without adding anything perceptibly to their exhaustion. As to the kind of hobby to be chosen everyone must consult his own taste and circumstances. It may he music, or some department of science, or literature, or floriculture, or bee-keeping. This depends very much on the taste of the individual, the nature of his daily employment, and the circumstances in which he is placed.<br /><br />Floriculture and bee-keeping, two thirgs very much akin, formed the special hobby of the person of whom notice is here to be taken. John Love, the eldest son of a father bearing the same name, was born at Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, on April 10th, 1806. So healthy has he been that during more than fourscore years he has only on one occasion required medical advice. Much of this, doubtless, is to be attributed ti the simplicity of his life, and to his regular and temperate habits. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There he is: of medium height and agile frame; a fine head, once covered with fair hair, but now bald with the exception of a few thin white locks; mild and meditative in expression ; the bloom still on his cheek, although eighty-five years of age by next birthday; for many years a happy "Benedict," but now a widower and the father of a numerous family; a good Christian man, and for a considerable time an esteemed elder in a Presbyterian church.<br /><br />Like his father, and like the inhabitants of Kilbarchan generally, John Love became in youth a handloom weaver, and diligently plied the shuttle till beyond the age of threescore and ten. But while busy at his trade during the time he resided under his father's roof, he had parts of meal hours, and frequently half or whole days, occasioned by the change of one web for another, when he could gratify his taste for flowers by cultivating them, and acquire also a knowledge of the habits and requirements of bees by watching and attending to those kept by his father—who was an enthusiastic bee-keeper, as was also his grandfather before him.</span><br />
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In his love for flowers John Love was by no means singular amongst his fellow tradesmen, the handloom weavers of Kilbarchan having, in most cases, a garden attached to their dwelling house. </span></div>
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John Love is a man of this stamp. Having by-and-by persuaded one of the other sex to cast in her lot with him as his wife, and got a house of his own, he could, now that he was his own master, follow out more freely the innocent and interesting hobby towards which his heart was drawn. He soon became acquainted with many plants, and not a few of them has he to some extent grown, such as Tulips, Pansies, Roses, Carnations, Auriculas, &c.; but his favourite flower, his piece de resistance, has ever been the Pink. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">But turn in and inquire for the master, and ask him to show you his Pinks; and he will cordially welcome you, and gladly, probably with head uncovered, lead you out, and with affectionate pride uncover, for your delighted inspection, his choice darlings. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Probably he will tell you, "These there are this year's seedlings. This one here I think will do; it is distinct from all others in the bed, and has qualities equal at least to any one of them. Here are also two or three which are very good, but before deciding what to do with them I must grow them another year. As for these other seedlings, they are below the mark and without promise, and must be cast out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">These tallied ones are the named Pinks. This one—' Black-eyed Susan '—is not a very large flower, but it is distinct, well laced, and pretty, and tells well in a stand, &c." Before leaving him it is not unlikely he will say to you, "If you grow Pinks I'll give you, if I can spare it, a little grass of any one of them for pipings" - for John Love is a generous man, and likes to encourage others in the cultivation of his favourite flower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Besides, after the judges have done their work you will commonly find attached to the stand a ticket, bearing in conspicuous print "first prize," and underneath this, in legible penmanship, "John Love, Kilbarchan." This has been repeated so frequently as to earn for him the soubriquet of "Scottish Pink Champion". John Love's favour for the Pink has been a life-long one. It was cherished by him till his age extended beyond the threescore years and ten. It continued to be cherished by him even practically during his subsequent residence in Paisley for six years, and in Rothesay for five years more; and when, at the end of these eleven years, he returned to his native town happily there was attached to the premises in which he took up his abode an excellent garden, where he has given, and is still giving, abundant evidence that his love for his favourite flower has neither been extinguished or lessened by age nor superseded by a newer favourite, but is as enthusiastic as ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">His life now extends beyond the half of its ninth decade, but he still appears so strong, Fo active, so healthy, so cheerful, so much in the possession of every faculty with the exception of hearing (whose gates are not now wide open) that he bids fair to see, if not the completion, at least the beginning of bis tenth decade.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />It may be added that during all his long and active life John Love has been conversant, theoretically and practically, with bee-keeping; but as the present writer is not very well acquainted with the plans and processes he followed in this kindred hobby he leaves it to some other, who is abundantly competent to write on the subject with intelligence and authority.</span><br />
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This article from the <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">British Bee Journal & Bee-keepers Adviser </span>celebrates the good man, John Love, as a beekeeper. I have been getting an article about him as a famous grower of pinks when I got lured away by bee. Pinks are coming! I have added illustrations when I was curious to know about something (if I could find any). I would have liked Mr. Love as a neighbor.<br />
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<br />We have much pleasure in giving this week the portrait and a biographical sketch of the veteran bee-keeper, Mr. John Love. Born in the village of Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, on 10th April, 1806, bred a hand-loom weaver, as were his father and grandfather, three Johns in line, he maybe said to have been a born beekeeper, as he remembers a saying of his father's -that in the old garden the hum of the bee had been heard without a break for sixty years. </span><br />
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<i style="color: #990000; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If the sentence above made you read it twice, be it known that "<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35px;">The <u>wide-awake</u>, a </span></i><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35px;">broad-brimmed felt hat with a lowish crown, was a countryman's hat".</span></i></span><span style="color: #990000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">(I thank the <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/art/costume/nunn22.html" target="_blank">source</a>! I remember acutely doing research in pre-computer days. I think the magic of the web will never dull for me.</span></span></span><img alt="☺" data-goomoji="263a" goomoji="263a" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/mail/emoji/v7/png48/emoji_u263a.png" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 24px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify; text-indent: 35px;">) </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Still remarkably nimble and fleet of foot, of a very amiable disposition, his laugh is as nappy and jubilant now as I believe it to have been when, a boy of nine, he remembers listening to accounts read from the papers of the glorious victory of Waterloo. For many years an exemplary Presbyterian elder, growing deafness (his only infirmity) prevents him now from performing all the duties of the office. So healthy has he been that only once during his</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">long life, for a fever, has he required medical advice. He married, 12th August, 1833, Mary Climie, daughter of a weaver's agent in his own village, and has been blessed by a numerous offspring.<br /><br />A few years after his marriage the subject of our sketch moved to Mount Pleasant, beautifully situated on rising ground above the village, and occupied jointly with his brother-in-law, the upper flat as their dwelling house — workshops below, a good garden behind. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The passer-by could not but be attracted by the bee-house, a neat model of a two-storied dwelling-house, complete to the sweep on the chimney. The numerous odd hives of the two dwellings were cosily placed in sheltered nooks under the many crafted fruit-trees. The floral display of roses, herbaceous plants, &c. was very fine but in their season the bed of pinks was the great attraction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mr. Love for many years was the acknowledged Scottish champion 'pink' grower. Upstairs his stuffed specimens of natural history reflected great credit on our friend's taste and neathandedness in another direction. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It has been recorded in these pages long ago, when the Italian bee was newly imported, how a petition was couched in respectable verse from the Kilbarchan fraternity for leave to inspect the new bee: the writer of it was Mr. Robert Climie, Mr. Love's brother-in-law. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hill-top is at last gained; there, bareheaded as usual, busy among his strawberries, stands our hero. The joy at meeting! 'Why, John, you look like an old eagle perched on this hill-top!' The bees and honey prospects are discussed, and the tremendous crop on his gifted young Caledonian plum-trees presented by John; a branch promised and hamper followed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I never can repay you,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> But I thank you o'er and o'er, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For there are deeds of friendship</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Words may not all impart,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Their sterling worth, as deep they sink</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Into our inmost heart.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then, once again I thank you </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> From here, my mountain home,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And, one and all, I wish you joy</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In the year that is to come.'</span></blockquote>
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I gave him an introduction to my good friend Miss Macdonell, of Glengarry, and he assisted her with her bees, and that lady, in the kindest manner possible, presented him with a couple of swarms, and he was once more into stock, whose descendants he still carefully preserves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The above lady takes an enthusiastic interest in the bee and the silkworm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A handsome mahogany rotating observatory ornaments her drawing room, and the supers from her gigantic Stewartons overtopped everything at the Rothesay Exhibition. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">She also takes a warm interest in the cause of religion and education, in maintaining the purity of worship in the National Church; is thoroughly practical, projected and supports an Initiatory School where poor boys are taught the ground-work of religion, besides the ability to sew on buttons or patches on their jackets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">At the School Board she has sat for nearly six years, the only lady, and heroically defends her position with as much determination as did her illustrious uncle the gates of Hougoumont at Waterloo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'I will whisper my tale to the Yule-log</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> As I muse in its ruddy glow,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As here again comes Christmas,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> With its holly and mistletoe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Tes! that is the tale I whisper,<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> As I muse in the firelight glow,<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> As I sit, in the hush of the evening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">'On the happy home of my childhood,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> On the friends I held so dear:<br /> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One by one they have left us,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />After a five years' residence in Bute he came back to Kilbarchan, and the bees and pinks are safely flitted to his present garden. After the labours of the week are over, it is a much </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">anticipated pleasure on the Saturday half-holiday, skimming over the four miles that part our dwellings. The newest ideas in bee-keeping are discussed, the last bed of pinks planted by himself seen to, and the latest-come herbaceous plant criticized; and if in autumn the fruit-crop is peculiarly interesting — those 'Bouquet trees, the waxy purity of the white 'celestial' apple flanked on either side, same tree, by branches of the scarlet or striped varieties successively. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">He often ejaculates, "It bates a!" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">How comes such heavy crops? Your good grafting and the fertilizing powers of our little friends, the bees? "Nae doot, nae doot!"<br /><br />One fine Saturday afternoon autumn was a twelvemonth, we were favoured by a visit from 'Our Editor,' pointing out to him how "history repeats itself", our old Japanese lion, worshipped for 3000 years, had been peopled that season by a colony of humble-bees as Samson's was, the subject of our sketch arrived and the pleasure of that introduction he will never forget.</span></div>
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I live near Wethersfield, Connecticut, home of the famous Wethersfield onions. To find them featured in a South Dakota seed catalog was unexpected.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">F</span>our years ago I was amused by the story of the Wonderberry, and posted <a href="https://horticultural-history.blogspot.com/2014/03/vials-of-contempt-wonderberry-story.html" target="_blank">Vials of Contempt - The Wonderberry Story</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Then, last fall, I bought the seeds for Schwartzenbeeren from <a href="https://www.rareseeds.com/blackberries-schwartzenbeeren-/" target="_blank">Baker's Heirloom Seeds</a>, completely forgetting what I had written years ago. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was quite the surprise to have my old post come up when I was looking for info on the Schwartzenbeeren! <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Also know as Schwartzbeeren, blaubeeren.) </span><br /><br /><br />I find I did not buy the Burbank's improved <i>Solanum nigrum</i> which was named the Wonderberry, just the historical favorite </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">brought to the United States by the </span><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Volga_Germans" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">Volga Germans</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What I was looking for was recipes, however, not history this time. The plants look very eager to inundate me with little berries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The plants in their pots are already covered with flowers and the start of berries </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">so I planted many of them yesterday. Maybe too early, given the weather report of 49º at night, but they had been hardened off so out they went! (It also opened up room in the cold frame for the next batch of plants.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">NEXT DAY: It's hot outside. The plants are well watered by the rainstorm. They are very happy. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I wonder how long before the first ripe berries???!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3 cups Schwartzbeeren </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">1 Tbsp. flour </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3 egg yolks, slightly beaten </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">3/4 to 1 cup sugar </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Meringue (recipe follows) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Preheat the oven to <b>400º</b> F. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Place the Schwartzbeeren in the pie shell. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a bowl, blend the flour with a little of the cream until smooth. Then add the rest of the cream, the egg yolks (save the whites for the meringue that will go on top the pie), salt, and sugar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mix thoroughly and then pour over the berries. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Bake the pie 5 minutes, then reduce the heat to <b>325</b> ºF. and bake until the custard is well set (a knife blade inserted into it should come out clean). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Remove the pie from the oven and top with the meringue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Return the pie to the oven and bake 12 to 15 minutes more, or until the meringue is golden brown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Combine 3 egg whites, 1/4 tsp. cream of tartar and a pinch of salt in the bowl of an electric mixer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Beat on medium speed until soft peaks form. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This interesting view of Japanese Knotweed and of the state of <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818092/Lost-archive-shows-pitiful-poverty-real-Artful-Dodgers-Portraits-Spitalfields-Nippers-taken-photographer-wanted-highlight-awful-conditions-published-new-book.html" target="_blank">poor city people</a> was an English article published in the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2EhAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA43&ots=KGE9q88yAa&dq=IN%20the%20preface%20to%20many%20a%20small%20treatise%2C%20the%20author%20states%20that%20%22a%20great%20want%20has%20long%20been%20felt%22%20for%20the%20article%20which%20he%2C%20in%20his%20benevolence%2C%20has%20at%20length%20provided&pg=PA228-IA2#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">The Florist and Pomologist</a>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /><b>1877 - POLYGONUM CUSPIDATUM AS A TOWN PLANT</b><br /><br />IN the preface to many a small treatise, the author states that "a great want has long been felt" for the article which he, in his benevolence, has at length provided; and following this precedent, I cannot do better than introduce <i>Polygonum cuspidatum</i>, alias <i>P. Sieboldii</i>, as a plant to fill a gap of no ordinary dimensions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The plant belongs to a family of troublesome weeds, of which the <a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Chenopodium_album" target="_blank">Fat Hen</a> (used as a spinach) is a notable member; and from a certain family likeness, this plant, like the Fat Hen, may perhaps some day do duty as a vegetable at the board of the poor man.<br /><br /><br /> Its chief merits at present, however, consist in its being, like <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=7aCCCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&dq=Jonah%27s+Gourd+-novel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiW5In2xIjbAhUKj1kKHbydDf4Q6AEIKTAA#v=onepage&q=Jonah's%20Gourd%20-novel&f=false" target="_blank">Jonah's Gourd</a>, a plant of rapid growth, and in its taking kindly to town life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It grows at least 10 ft. high, and the rapidity with which it runs up may be seen, when I state that one recently planted against a cottage in a narrow street in Manchester, attained from 6 ft. to 7 ft. in height; and being a bold herbaceous plant, with a branching stem spotted with purple, and well furnished with leaves all the way up, it has no mean or common aspect.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> When rising in spring, which it does in May, the succulent shoots are crisp and tender, and rather larger than fair-sized Asparagus. The leaf is heart-shaped, with a narrowed point and truncate base, and handsome. It is thoroughly hardy, and one of its peculiarities is that its underground stems spread widely in search of fresh pasture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I saw it putting in an appearance in a garden adjoining the one in which it was planted, having travelled by the wall and under a flag-stone 3 ft. wide, thereby showing its aptitude for town-life; and whilst the London Nettle [Coleus] requires to be kept indoors in the dingy windows of the City, this Polygonum will do the work of the Nettle without any protection.<br /><br />In a box or barrel containing half a cubic foot of earth, placed against a wall, or planted out in the paved yard, it will live and do well; and as it dies down every year, it escapes half the dirt that would have fallen upon its foliage had it been an evergreen shrub. It is, moreover, strong enough to stand alone, and does not need the town-ladder nor even a stake to keep it upright.<br /><br />The Lupinus polyphyllus is one of our earliest spring plants, and has been extensively cultivated for agricultural purposes. Who knows but that this fastgrowing, early herb may some day rival the Lupine as early food for ewes and lambs. As a weed, it has much of the character of colt's-foot and couch-grass, and therefore had better be cautiously let into possession, lest it might be difficult to get it out root and branch, for it pushes its underground stems in all directions.<br /><br />Whilst the rich can carry their love of grass and flowers from the country into town-life, and be able to maintain parks and squares where their children can walk under shady trees, and disport themselves on the green sward, the poor people are not deficient in taste for the same luxuries, and would gladly hail a hardy perennial herbaceous plant that would take up its abode with them, and thrive among bricks and mortar, and every year get abler for its work.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <i>Polygonum cuspidatum</i> will do all this, and thereby supply a want that has long been felt.—A. FORSYTH, Salford.<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This isn't a seed related post, instead, just something else I like. As a new beekeeper, my interest in poking around in old journals and books has led me to <i>Polygonum cuspidatum</i>. (Say it aloud with a good bounce - its fun</span><img alt="" data-goomoji="1f600" goomoji="1f600" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/mail/emoji/v7/png48/emoji_u1f600.png" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 24px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;" /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Japanese Knotweed was introduced in the United States as an an ornamental in the mid 1800s and grew to be one of the hardest plants to keep from taking over the countryside. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gardners of larger estates (and people with small lawns, but with attitude) appreciated Castor Bean and Cannas for their </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">large lush exotic aesthetic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Japanese Knotweed fit right in. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back before the internet I had to look it up in Bailey when a narrow, shady ally behind my house sprouted a bee full forest of the stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">What I haven't known until recently is that it makes a nice dark honey!!<br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> Japanese Knotweed honey has many people who appreciate it. I've never tasted it, but I love buckwheat honey which is as dark as molasses, so I am planning to find <i>Polygonum cuspidatum</i> honey to buy this fall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The other feature that beekeepers appreciate is the flowering time of knotweed in New England falls when most other flowers are taking a break before starting up again in early fall. Called "the dearth", during this time when most plants are not flowering beekeepers need to feed their bees to keep their numbers up so they are ready for the important work of gathering the fall flower honey. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">Bees who are not fed during a dearth wisely decrease the their numbers so there are fewer mouths to feed. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">However, if the hives have a big tract of knotweed to forage on there is no dearth for those bees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And I also have to include this one. This is why it is a hated plant.</span><br />
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The presenter in this news clip is <a href="http://www.lancashirelife.co.uk/people/tv-garden-expert-christine-walkden-on-growing-up-in-lancashire-and-why-she-loves-the-southport-flower-show-1-5017167" target="_blank">Christine Walkden</a>, one of my favorite <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp2f" target="_blank">Gardners Question Time</a> panel members. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp2f" target="_blank">Gardners Question Time</a> makes a great podcast for commuting BTW.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you are thinking about what honeybees consider a delightful flower - think any mint family plant. I suppose there might be one they shun, but I haven't heard of it yet. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A. I. Root's horsemint is </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16.5px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; position: relative; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;"><i>Monarda fistulosa. </i>The flower shape is familiar to anyone who has the more common (in New England) garden plant, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Monarda didyma</i>, bee balm.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Horsemint is more of a southern plant in the United States. In 1882, Mrs. Jennie Atchley was describing the bee plant year in Texas when she said, </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />"...after May 20th, horse mint begins to bloom. Then we can holloa out, Eureka, all is safe; just about the same as apiarists in the north when white clover and basswood comes in." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> In Texas, "the dearth", when bees have a hard time finding anything in bloom, comes just before the horsemint blooms. A gentleman from Carthage, Missouri </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">in 1883 </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">commented that horsemint was usually the richest honey harvest of the year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Frank Chapman Pellet writes, in his 1920 book, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><u><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JpllAAAAMAAJ&dq=monarda%20punctata%2C%20honey&pg=PA7#v=onepage&q=Monarda%20fistulosa&f=false" target="_blank">American Honey Plants: Together with Those which are of Special Value to the Beekeeper as Sources of Pollen</a></u> :</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are several species of horsemint, known also as bee balm, wild bergamot, etc. Some of the species are represented from New England to Texas. Figure 77 <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(not shown) </span></i>shows <i>M. fistulosa</i>, the wild bergamot of the North. The corolla tubes are so deep that, as a rule, the bees are unable to reach the nectar. In some cases it is reported as yielding freely and the author has seen times when the bees were apparently getting considerable nectar from this species. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In parts of Wisconsin, </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">M. punctata</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, according to D. L. H. Pammel, can be depended upon to yield an abundance of nectar every season. This is probably the most important species to the beekeeper. It is found more or less commonly on sandy soil from New York to Minnesota and south to Florida and Texas.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In Texas it is the source of very large quantities of surplus honey in seasons following wet winters, and springs. The honey is a clear light amber with a decided minty flavor. It is one of the most important sources in Texas, where, together with </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">M. clinopodioides</i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, it is regarded very highly. In the Arkansas Valley of southern Kansas horsemint is also important, yielding as high as fifty pounds of surplus per colony.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />This lovely watercolor sketch by Miss Helen Sharp. I can't find any information on her beyond what she notes on her drawings - where she is when sketching and the date. Her works date between 1888 and 1910. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This sketch was done in Taunton, MA in 1910, I think. Hard to read date.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And here is another artist in a book from 1800, Zorn, J., Oskamp, D.L., <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Q4kfAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PP17#v=onepage&q&f=false" target="_blank">Afbeeldingen der artseny-gewassen met derzelver Nederduitsche en Latynsche beschryvingen, vol. 4:</a> t. 316 <span style="background-color: white;"> (</span></span><i style="font-size: 15px;"><span style="vertical-align: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; vertical-align: inherit;">Images of the physician's crops with their Dutch and Latynian writings)</span></span></i></div>
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-30932304837545432882018-05-11T17:08:00.000-07:002018-05-11T17:08:10.611-07:00Old Photo - Time to Plant Seeds<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-15571135125540045092018-05-11T14:46:00.000-07:002018-05-11T14:46:01.579-07:001887 - Melissa (Lemon Balm): #11 of Root's Bee Plants<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This year, the first spring I have been retired from teaching, I filled the porch with seed trays. I stole the shop lights from the basement, bought some more, and had quite the jolly display of green out there during a wretched cold early spring. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One reason I did this is A. I. Root's catalog of seeds which offered them as bee plants. I am a fledgling beekeeper </span><img alt="" data-goomoji="1f41d" goomoji="1f41d" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/mail/emoji/v7/png48/emoji_u1f41d.png" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 24px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;" /><img alt="" data-goomoji="1f41d" goomoji="1f41d" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/mail/emoji/v7/png48/emoji_u1f41d.png" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; height: 24px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;" /> <br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Anything I grow will probably be ignored by my bees as they look for large, economical to visit, patches of bee friendly flowers. (My yard does not lend itself to large patches of anything, being a glacial hillside of oaks and pines...) But maybe the plants I am growing will occasionally be at least an amuse-bouche!</span><br />
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<section class="title_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />Beekeepers </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">around the late 1800s,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> were interested in identifying great bee plants as the idea of establishing bee pastures was being considered and tried. Just as you have pastures for cows, the bees could have pasture land devoted to their nectar and pollen plants. Later the beekeeping community decided it would not pay unless there was also money to be made from selling the pasture crop after the bees were done with it...like buckwheat.</span></section><section class="title_wrapper" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 10px;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Melissa honey plant is a very sweet mint, which grows about a foot high and bears a beautiful white blossom. It did well at the Michigan Station (B. 65), blossomed freely, and was very generally visited by the bees, <u>blooming from early in July for a month or more</u>. Unfortunately it is an annual, does not seed itself, and must be planted each year. It is considered doubtful if this would pay. On 3 acres of Melissa the bees had swarmed in early August—a thing unprecedented in the State. <span style="font-size: x-small;"> <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Irg5AQAAMAAJ&dq=and%20melissa%20honey%20bees&pg=PA707#v=onepage&q=and%20melissa%20honey%20bees&f=false" target="_blank">1891 - </a></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=Irg5AQAAMAAJ&dq=and%20melissa%20honey%20bees&pg=PA707#v=onepage&q=and%20melissa%20honey%20bees&f=false" target="_blank">American Bee Journal</a></span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The period of bloom of bee balm, July, August, is when there is generally a dearth of nectar and pollen, a time when beekeepers around me (New England) nowadays have to feed their bees to keep the numbers up to be ready to go out in early fall to gather the nectar available from fall flowers. If the hive is large enough they will gather in the fall the honey they need to live through the winter<b> plus extra</b> which the beekeeper harvests! Spring is a honey gathering season, summer is pathetic, and fall might be a honey gathering season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But here is the kicker... </span>the darn stuff now is NOT considered a bee plant especially!! And I thought I'd treat my bees to a patch of something nice. Sheesh...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iw8iAQAAMAAJ&q=Melissa+officinalis,+honeybees&dq=Melissa+officinalis,+honeybees&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjqrJvXofzaAhVQq1kKHZlgAjsQ6AEIMDAB">Bee Culture - Volume 124 - Page 363</a> 1996 - Snippet view Bee balm, Lemon balm or Bee-herb - these names all refer to the plant <i>Melissa officinalis</i>, an aromatic, perennial herb that has been associated with bees for centuries. This plant is native to regions of the northern Mediterranean, and the ancient Greeks called it <i>Melissophyllon</i>, which means "beloved by bees." Despite claims in many older books, the white flowers of Bee balm do not attract honey bees to any great extent, as the flower tubes appear to be too long and narrow for them ...</span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the bright side, it makes a nice herbal tea. <img alt="" data-goomoji="1f604" goomoji="1f604" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/mail/emoji/v7/png48/emoji_u1f604.png" style="color: #222222; font-size: small; height: 24px; margin: 0px 0.2ex; vertical-align: middle; width: 24px;" /> I'll treat me to something nice!</span></section><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;">The name "Melissa" has a long history with roots reaching back to even before Ancient Greece. For this reason, in part, there are several versions of the story surrounding the mythological character Melissa, especially in how she came to care for the infant </span><a class="int-link" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Zeus" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1559b5; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;" title="Zeus">Zeus</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;">. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;">In one version, Melissa, a mountain-nymph hid Zeus from his father, </span><a class="int-link" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Cronus" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1559b5; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;" title="Cronus">Cronus</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;">, who was intent on devouring his progeny.</span><span class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.53em; line-height: 0; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="anch-link" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Melissa#citenote9" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1559b5; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;">[9]</a></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;"> She fed Zeus goat's milk from </span><a class="int-link" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Amalthea_(mythology)" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1559b5; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;" title="Amalthea (mythology)">Amalthea</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16.5px;">and fed him honey, giving him a permanent taste for it even once he came to rule on </span><a class="int-link" href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Mount_Olympus" style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1559b5; font-size: 16.5px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.15s ease-out;" title="">Mount Olympus</a><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 16.5px;">. Cronus became aware of Melissa's role in thwarting his murderous design and changed her into an earthworm. Zeus, however, took pity and transformed her into a beautiful bee. </span><a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Melissa" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wikipedia</span></a></span></span></blockquote>
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-80983657054736608262018-05-09T17:52:00.000-07:002018-05-09T17:52:13.670-07:001940 - Nice Seed Store Photo<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Library of Congress has extraordinary photos if you poke around to find them. This one was taken in Grayville, Illinois 78 years ago in May.</span><br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-41511067754343743432018-05-08T10:14:00.000-07:002018-05-08T18:05:00.684-07:001892 - Lithography Dots from Mastodon Corn; W. W. Barnard & Co<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have to recover from my last poor choice in seed articles.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here is a selection of my </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">beloved dots from a back cover of </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">a W. W. Barnard & Co catalog from 1892.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Plus, any corn named Mastodon deserves not to be forgotten.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nice Link:</span> <a href="http://www.ephemerasociety.org/blog/?p=5590">The Flowering of Color Printing</a> <span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif;">(About Lithography)</span><br />
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Emma Craibhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17324990008133310320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8095425446656314412.post-85426994786230774022018-05-07T17:16:00.002-07:002018-05-07T17:16:30.477-07:00Seed Selling - Part 3 - THE GROWTH OF SEED HOUSES, EXPORT TRADE and SEED FARMS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;">Y</span>ou know, this article might be useful, but it is boring (unless you are really into it today). <br />
There is no gossip, or any details that make things come alive. Even the photos are boring...I can't make myself copy them. <br />
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The first part wasn't too bad...<br />
But this sow's ear is staying just that...I'm outta here. <br />
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This article, written in 1900 about the seed business, is a good overview of the growth of the seed industry. This post contains: <br />
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The seed trade has changed quite as much as has the catalogue. The barrel of peas has grown to hundreds of bags, and the few thousand of packets to millions. <br />
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The large modern seed stores, whether devoted to the local or to the mail trade, are models of convenience and of system.<br />
In most of them fanning mills of the monitor or clipper type are constantly employed in cleaning and grading seeds, and from the cellar to the mailing room everything is so arranged that orders may be filled with accuracy and dispatch. <br />
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During the late summer and early fall the force is employed in addressing envelopes for catalogues and in packeting seeds in readiness for the busy months. In the order books there is an entry for every post office in every State, no matter whether an order has ever been received from that office or not.</div>
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Thirty years ago one hundred letters a day was considered a large business; to-day some houses receive over six thousand letters a day during the busy season. Firms that twenty years ago employed only one or two clerks now employ a hundred during the winter months. <br />
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Throughout the West the seed business has flourished; a Wisconsin firm writes that its business has increased 500 per cent in the last fifteen years; a single warehouse of a Western firm now has between 7 and 8 acres of floor space.<br />
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That the growth of the trade during the century has been great scarcely needs emphasizing, but it is difficult to secure figures showing the rate of increase. Only a few seed houses antedate the civil war, and the great majority are of recent origin; the statistics of exports date from 1855 and no separate records of imports of seeds were kept before 1873.<br />
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Clover and grass seeds, especially timothy, have always taken the lead in the seed export trade, and until recent years garden seeds have not been a considerable factor in the total values.<br />
In 1825 some 10,000 bushels of clover seed were exported to England within a few months. How long this trade had existed we do not know. From 1855 to 1864 there is no record of any seeds exported except clover, but the value of exports increased from $13,570 in 1855 to $2,185,700 in 1863, the war apparently having no effect on the trade. <span style="color: #990000;"><i>(This is the data I found remarkable.)</i></span><br />
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The total value of the clover seed exported during this period aggregated $5,393,663.<br />
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Before the beginning of the century only three seed farms had been established in the United States, though for many years seeds were grown by farmers and market gardeners. Home-grown clover and grass seeds, flax, hemp, and Connecticut onion seeds were on the market during colonial times, but the impression prevailed that garden seeds could not be successfully grown in America, and for the first sixty years of this century almost all the vegetable and flower seeds were imported. <br />
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It was natural that clover and grass seeds of American origin should be offered earlier than garden seeds. The former grew freely throughout the colonies and produced seed in abundance, while it required special skill and care to raise good garden seeds. <br />
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Eliot, in 1747, and Spurrier, in 1793, both refer to clover seed and grass-seed crops, and describe methods of harvesting and cleaning. <br />
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Nicholson, in the Farmers' Assistant, 1814, describes most of the grasses used to-day, and says that they seed freely. <br />
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Flaxseed was an article of export at an early day, and a considerable quantity of clover seed was sent to England in the early years of the century.<br />
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The present development of garden-seed growing began when David Landreth established a small seed farm at Philadelphia in 1784. At first but a few acres were cultivated, and these were mostly occupied by the nursery. As the business grew, more land was added, until in 1860, some 600 acres were under cultivation near Philadelphia alone. <br />
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The Shakers, who came to America in 1774, began growing seeds at Mount Lebanon, N. Y., twenty years later. During the first quarter of the nineteenth century their seeds were more popular than any others, and outside of the large towns they supplied almost the entire demand. The well-known probity of these people and the excellent culture of their farms gave their seeds a wide reputation. Their wagons went from village to village, and they also sold on commission at 25 per cent, taking back the seeds that remained unsold.<br />
In 1839 the Shaker colony at Tyringham, Mass., devoted 4 or 5 acres to the cultivation of garden, medicinal, and herb seeds, and their annual sales sometimes amounted to more than $3,000. A seed farm was established at Enfield, N. H., in 1795, one in Connecticut between 1810 and 1820, and three more before 1830.<br />
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Other seed farms existed for a short time, but were abandoned. The Clairmont seed gardens near Baltimore, Md., supplied some of the dealers of that city about 1851 and probably earlier.<br />
At a still earlier day there was a seed garden in New Jersey, on which Grant Thorburn spent his fortune between 1808 and 1813. ...<br />
Of the other seed farms in existence in 1890, thirteen were established between 1830 and 1840; fifteen between 1840 and 1850, and nineteen during the following decade.<br />
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RAPID INCREASE IN SEED GROWING DURING THE LAST FORTY YEARS. </div>
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The opening of the civil war found the country still largely dependent upon imported garden seeds. The heavy taxes and the premium on gold raised the prices of all imported seeds to such an extent that the dealers began to look anxiously for a home supply. During the first year of the war the trade in seeds fell off, prices were high, and seeds scarce. This condition stimulated home production, and as many seed farms were established between 1860 and 1870 as during the thirty years before the war. <br />
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It was found that many vegetable seeds could be grown as well in this country as abroad, and that all kinds, for which the climate and soil were suitable, were much more safely grown under the eye of the dealer. Growers also became more expert, and market gardeners found that they could get as good seeds from the seedsman as they could save themselves, and at less than one-half the cost. The seed grower secured a critical and profitable trade, and the market gardener found a reliable source of supply for his seeds. <br />
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This critical trade and the constant demand for better varieties stimulated the seed grower to do his best work. Seeds of the standard varieties were more carefully grown and new sorts, earlier, larger, or of better quality made their appearance every year. But it was by demanding reliable seeds rather than new varieties that the market-garden trade exercised the best influence upon the seedsman. To a man who expended annually $100 to $300 per acre for labor and fertilizers, it was of the utmost importance that his seed should produce exactly what he expected, and he well knew that it was not economy to buy cheap seeds. It is valuable trade, when secured, was retained only by supplying seeds of the highest quality regardless of cost. <br />
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Since the close of the war the business of seed growing has rapidly increased. Notwithstanding some importers of seeds declared in 1867 that American seed growing was a myth, there were at that time more than 2,000 acres devoted to raising vegetable and flower seeds. In 1878, Mr. J. J. H. Gregory estimated the total area devoted to growing garden seeds at about 7,000 acres. Of these, 3,000 in the State of New York produced peas and beans; 250 acres, other vegetable seeds; and 50 acres, flower seeds.<br />
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The remainder was distributed as follows: Michigan and northern Illinois, 1,600 acres; Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1,000 acres; Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, 1,000 acres. The acreage for California is not given, but seed growing in that State was then practically consigned to lettuce and onion seed, and the industry had been established for only about three years. Of the kinds of seeds which were sold in the United States, Mr. Gregory said:<br />
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More or less of half the varieties are imported. Of mangel-wurzel, about all; rutabaga, about nine-tenths; spinach, about nine-tenths; cauliflower, nearly all; lettuce, about half; carrots, about half; eggplant, about half; parsnip, about one-third; radish, about all. ... It is the general belief of American seedsmen that foreign-grown radish seed is larger and better than home-grown. Parsley seed is largely imported. Brussels sprouts, broccoli, chicory, endive, kohlrabi, and Swiss chard are almost wholly imported, as is salsify, to a large extent. Of celery, the finest varieties are grown in this country in the vicinity of our large cities. Of cucumbers, but a few, and those of the fancy-frame sorts, are imported.<br /> Of peas, most of the hard sorts are home-grown, and probably rather more than half of what are called the softer or wrinkled varieties. The Dutch or rough-leaved turnip seeds are all home-grown. Of cabbage seed, but few varieties are imported, and these are confined almost wholly to a few early sorts. Onion seed is almost entirely an American crop." </blockquote>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Gregory, J. J. H.: Culture of Vegetable Seeds, in the Report of the Connecticut Board of Agriculture, 1878, p. 110.</span></div>
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