The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

It is February 20, 2016.   It was 60º F. outside today!! I am done with winter even though I fear it is not done with Connecticut...but...

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!                     ...