The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

These McCullough's trade cards are from 1888.  They are special because they are designed for the seed merchant to feature his flowers...

That title was picked off the first sentence in an 1824 article on onion growing in Great Britain.  It is so much fun to say!  Yo...

I know - there are no seeds here.  But this lush lithograph made my nose twitch in anticipation of the smell of crushed raspberries.  ...

The Agricultural Colleges benefited from these seed collections proposed in 1894 and created in 1898.   This showed up on Ebay the other ...

I don't like this New Yorker cover.   In fact, I find it repulsive.  Who would think a seed packet riff could seem yucky?   Maybe it&#...

I am having fun continuing my search for interesting bindings in general and ones with gilt motifs in particular.  I just found this exce...

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 ...