The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

In 1896 A. T. Cook was offering Cinnamon Vines as the answer to the nurseryman's prayer for a great selling vine.  He continued cont...

A. T. Cook  was an enthusiastic promoter of his seeds and plants.    P. T. Barnum,  self-proclaimed “Prince of Humbugs”,  comes to mi...

A delightful letter.  I wonder how A. T. Cook responded!  A. T. Cook links -   ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4   This one is on cinnamon vines,...

I don't know why I continue with Wood as I don't trust a guy who is so invested in giving premiums! Yet here is another thing that...

A h, he is at it again - this time teasing buyers with a plant that sounds too good to be true! And what is a Vegetable Peach, you may a...

Y ou have to hand it to him...A. T. Cook was a salesman to his bones.   He was selling soybeans to be grown as the...

This is too cute for words...and good advice to boot!   I promise these cards of A. T. Cook's will be the last I post, then back to s...

A. T. Cook and John Hulbert continued with Cheer Cards designed to share "inspiring, exalting, and helpful thoughts designed to c...

A. T. C ook was very clear in how he thought folks should behave.   He used his seed catalog to point the way and published many pos...

This turned out to be more interesting than I thought!!  This vine is handsome, huge and covered with weird little potato like tuber...

T hirty-six temperance postcards were published by A. T. Cook, Seedsman, Hyde Park, New   York.   The majority were designed by the art...