The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

L ess than 10 years before this tomato was named, this country was fighting one of the bloodiest wars we have ever known.  To name a tomato...

I enjoyed reading this and hope you do as well.  In 1899  Edward Payson Roe wrote the book   Play and Profit in My Garden .  It was interes...

I don't care if this is a fantasy or not...it is darned cool.  Folks who like to go bang but not kill anything could stalk around ...

W hile mail service has certainly gotten poorer since I was a kid when mail came through our door's mail slot twice a day, as a count...

Miss Martha Hiser   Miss Ella Baines  Miss Mary Martin   This is from her earlier catalog and ads. Miss Mary was from...

Unless kudzu turns out to be the biofuel of the future, this seed ad certainly goes in the "If We Only Knew Then..." hall of fame...