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Saturday, January 18, 2014

"Make Der Face Open, Fido" and A Seed's Sinister Secret

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This delightful photo contains both charming children and a plant capable of poisoning the town's water supply! While I am exagger...
Friday, January 17, 2014

A Tad More from the Three Misses from Minneapolis

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Harking back to the  1/7/14 post   Three Misses from Minneapolis,   today's post is a full newspaper page that contains ads from al...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

A Selection of Shaker Images Relating to Seeds and One Good Link

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T oday's entry is not on the Thorburn family and their seed company!  It has been a busy week at school with after school events so u...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

First Seedsman in New York City (Part 4)

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Monday, January 13, 2014

Pelargonium peltatum To the Rescue! (Part 3)

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O ur hero, Grant Thorburn was living in 1801 at 22 Nassau Street, running a grocery with his new wife. Nassau Street seems to have been...
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Wiser to Marry than Hire a Housekeeper (Part 2)

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I found him! This is Grant Thorburn, Long Island seedsman and father of the C. G. Thorburn who published seed catalogs and books of plant...
Saturday, January 11, 2014

Hurl or Hell? (Part 1)

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Help!  The energy to pursue seed history is harder to save than the seeds themselves! School wiped me out this week...I was doing paintin...