The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

How can one not like this!!?     ~1894~

I routinely dump interesting postcard images into a folder until I gather enough from one company to become interested.  When I saw I had 3...

  In 1886 Henry S. Rupp brought his two sons into the florist and nursery business.   (An earlier catalog at the end of ...

I was looking up "new vegetable" in the 19th century documents for fun and this popped up.  It actually sounds like something...

1870 - The Florist and Pomologist :   A Pictorial Monthly Magazine of Flowers, Fruits, and General Horticulture Did you notice th...

As I sit here surrounded by buckets, tins and plastic tubs catching the drips coming through the ceilings all over the house, I think of su...

I don't know about you, but living in New England this year has sharpened by appreciation of summer.  I was enjoying looking at this ph...