The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

I wish I could have a larger photo of this binding Robert Buist's  The Family Kitchen Gardener ! The large gold stamping on the cloth ...

I can just feel it... makes me relax just pretending.

Go to the bottom of the page for a very large image of Buist's nursery in 1840 and enjoy touring it!  I like the system for control...

Over the years, the New Yorker magazine could be counted on to know what was in peoples dreams.

Seed packets are what drew me into looking at the seed trade. The early packets are what I enjoy the most.  I love the soft textur...

T wo greats in the horticultural history of the United States are John Bartram and William Prince. W hen I was reading a seed and plant c...

T his is a fun story of trash talk across the Atlantic, plant hybridization, and the magic of advertising.  My wanderings in the internet ...