The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

Tomorrow is Memorial Day so when I spotted this Rochester, New York postcard I thought to post it.  

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

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

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 ...

Love those lithographs!   I couldn't resist sharing this one of  Miss C.H. Lippincott's  back covers featuring the aster...

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...