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Wednesday, May 24, 2017

1899 - A Cool Cover from the Cool Seedsman, John Lewis Childs

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I had never seen this cover.  I like Childs' portrait's use in the design...quite unusual! Childs is a great seedsman when it ...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

1896 - Part One: Whittrock's "A CONTRIBUTION TO THE HISTORY OF PANSIES"

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I  was working on gathering illustrations for a more specialized history of the Show and Fancy pansies when I found this article...
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,...