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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Miss Tiller' Gets Advice: Ideal Seed Selection for a Small Market Garden in 1873

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Liberty Hyde Bailey.  A man of prodigious horticultural output that delighted me in pre-internet days with his three volume Standar...
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

World Turned Upside Down - At Least This Tomato...

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H ow odd is this??! It must be a mistake on the part of the printer. I bet it is the only upside down tomato in an ad I will ever find! ...
Monday, February 2, 2015

Baring-Gould's "Rose of June" and Many Others

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S abine Baring-Gould came to my attention again when reading a modern mystery of the  Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes series by Laurie ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Me and My Cow Parsley Seeds :-)

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The last post prompted my husband Jack to insist I share this photo of me :-) Several years ago I first noticed this exuberant, large ...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Old Photo: Tall Lady and Her Tall Bean Plants

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How many photographs have been taken of people in gardens standing next to their successful plants?  I find them  enjoyable, getting a...
Sunday, December 7, 2014

Art of the Bean - circa 1878 Japanese Ink Drawing

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Behold the bean.   This is what art helps people to do...to be able to see what is in front of them every day in all its wonder.   This im...
Saturday, December 6, 2014

1880 - Grandmother's Baked Beans on Ponketasset Hill, Concord, Massachusetts

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Baked Beans George Houghton B AKED beans! The very name is dear to New Englanders! Baked beans! Those two words of five  letters each...