The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

I am posting these Stocks seed packets as a follow up to  1828 - A Happy Man and His Matthiola incana.     I'm not too fond of this so...

plantillustrations.org W illiam Wilson's glee in developing a new variety of Matthiola incana, the garden flower  Stock is catchin...

A delightful letter.  I wonder how A. T. Cook responded!  A. T. Cook links -   ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4   This one is on cinnamon vines,...

I was watching Mind of a Chef when this popped up!  Luckily this section was posted on YouTube. Do I believe this history of the watermel...

This charming woodcut is from Thomas Bridgeman's 1835 Florist's Guide. I first heard of the seedsmen, father and son, Thomas a...

I learned some interesting new things from this memoir of the seed trade. Brill is an entertaining writer who switches from high-falutin&...