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Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Nice, Free Herb Book from J. Paul Getty Gardens
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M any of the large art museums are placing some of their publications and other rarer, out-of-print books online to read or to download as ...
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
1896 - Miss C.H. Lippincott's Fire King Aster
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Love those lithographs! I couldn't resist sharing this one of Miss C.H. Lippincott's back covers featuring the aster...
Friday, May 5, 2017
A Few 20th Century Seed Packets of Stocks
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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...
1828 - A Happy Man and His Matthiola incana
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plantillustrations.org W illiam Wilson's glee in developing a new variety of Matthiola incana, the garden flower Stock is catchin...
Sunday, April 30, 2017
1923 - Mr. Cook's Roots Disappoint Mrs. Graves
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A delightful letter. I wonder how A. T. Cook responded! A. T. Cook links - ( 1 ) ( 2 ) ( 3 ) ( 4 This one is on cinnamon vines,...
Friday, April 28, 2017
Watermelon History...really...
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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...
Thursday, April 27, 2017
1824 - Thomas and Alfred Bridgeman, Seedsmen, of New York
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This charming woodcut is from Thomas Bridgeman's 1835 Florist's Guide. I first heard of the seedsmen, father and son, Thomas a...
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