The Promise of Seeds: Magic in a Packet

S acaline was originally adopted from Japan as an ornamental.  Its common name now is Giant Knotweed , and like it smaller cousin, Japane...

The Huntington Seed Co. is something of a mystery to me.   I can't find much information on any of these Huntingtons , thei...

F. C. Huntington and Company's illustration for the Vegetable Peach field made me smile.   I posted on the Vegetable Peach of A. T....

Ah...  how could anyone resist   John Lewis Childs' Fall Bulb Catalog?   We plant them because they can be awesome!  I lov...

Dreadful, aren't they?   I wonder how many exist today.  I suspect they have fallen prey to mice, or just fallen apart.   But so much w...

Y ou can't beat a lithographed catalog for luxuriant surfaces. Your attention can slide down the sweeps of color, twirl around a cu...

   G oodness...  What can I say?   The poet's own phrase "necromancy keen" sort of sums this poem up! ...