The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

T his hand tinted engraving from Curtis's Botanical Magazine is my cup of tea!                        Have fun eye surfing on...

T his was John Adams' gardening book.  He owned it, touched it, read it (I assume).   I wonder if he was amused by the two goofy putti...

I can't resist these engraved bird's eye views! I missed this one when I posted on John Lewis Childs .  To make it even...

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