The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

It was harder to find what I wanted in the seed catalog archives so I am buying some hollyhock time with these bits of hollyhock ephemera!...

Arents Cigarette Card 1895-1900 "Floral beauties and language of flowers" NYPL Digital Gallery I've always wanted hug...

The first five photo postcards are from Wm. H. Martin.  Can't find a thing about him.  These later two are from ...

Why chickens, you ask ? The Burpee seed catalog offered poultry equipment and birds! These engravings were done by Erdmann who seems to be...

Yes, the recipe is in this post :-) W. Atlee Burpee was a very good businessman as well as seedsman.  If you don't know what t...