The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

What is leptosiphon? V ick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Floral Guide had these border suggestions for the 1887 gardens. ...

Tomorrow is Memorial Day so when I spotted this Rochester, New York postcard I thought to post it.  

Spring, 2017...snow everywhere.  I need these yellows and reds!!! Let your imagination jump into this nasturtium,  courtesy of James...

T he year 1901 falls in the boring period of seed catalogs, after photographic reproductions were considered more modern. Below these ima...

T he cool spring, and now summer, here in New England has slowed gardens down.  Big, ripe tomatoes and ripe melons are still far in the fut...

A charming decision to have a different colored ink on each page, but odd, and I wonder if his printer recommended it. And if he did, why!...

1880 was a good year for color illustrations in the Vick catalog. A very nicely written short piece on these magnificent catalogs can be ...

  A h...spring and the promise of summer flowers.  James Vick started to make that promise glow once inexpensive   chromolithography  w...

J ames Vick's catalog would keep you busy reading for a long time.  It must have been a very welcome  delivery!                     ...