Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of pole lima beans (Large White Pole Lima) with one of the pods halved to show the interior beans. A few light splashes of color in the background. Lima beans are one of many bean species classed under bush beans and pole beans, depending on the style of growth. For example, bush lima beans (also known as butter beans) grow on their own to about two feet tall while pole lima beans grow on a vine and need a support (also known as runner beans (grow... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a large Kentucky field pumpkin in a field filled with other pumpkins. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Company was founded in 1908 in Fredonia, New York. ... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a few black radishes, which are a type of winter radish. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Company was founded in 1908 in Fredonia, New York. The company s... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of sorrel planted in the ground. Sorrel is considered a leafy vegetable or an herb. It also goes by other names including sour grass, spinach dock, and narrow-leafed dock. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a ... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a couple of Boston Marrow squashes on a pale blue background. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Company was founded in 1908 in Fredonia, New York. The comp... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a yellow summer squash on the ground in a scenic landscape with a green field (presumably filled with other squash plants). No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card See... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of Swiss chard (Sea Kale or Beet) in a scenic landscape with rows of Swiss chard in the ground. Swiss chard goes by a variety of names including chard (by itself), seakale beet, leaf beet, silver beet, beet spinach, and perpetual spinach. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed p... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of thyme with a faint, abstracted design in the background. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Company was founded in 1908 in Fredonia, New York. The company s... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a large tomato (Chalk Pomodoro Grosso) and a tomato plant in a scenic landscape. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Company was founded in 1908 in Fredonia, ... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a large tomato (John Baer Pomodoro Grosso) and a basket of tomatoes in a scenic landscape with rows of tomato plants. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fine copy. The Card Seed Comp... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a turnip (Seven Top) still planted in the ground, with most of the taproot hidden in the dirt, the leaves featured front and center above ground. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wrinkles. A Fi... View More...
Original lithographed seed packet for the plant, fruit, or vegetable named in the title. Contains no seeds. Front features a color illustration of a watermelon (Tom Watson) on the ground in a scenic landscape with other watermelons nearby. The watermelon at center has been cut open to show its interior. No date, circa 1920s. 3 1/4" x 5." Printed on front and back. "Genesee Valley Litho. Co., Rochester, N. Y." printed on the flap. Brief information about the plant and planting instructions on the back. Seed packet is very clean and intact except for slight age toning and a few small wr... View More...
Original green cloth with a gilt design of trees on the front cover. Gilt lettering on the spine. 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 inches. 96 pages which include 3 pages of index. Copy contains 19 black and white illustrations. Contents include, Trees and Shrubs in the Home Landscape, Scale in Plantings, Street Trees, Placing and Selecting Trees, The Shrub Border, Foundation Plantings, Conifers in Landscape Planting, Broadleaf Evergreens, Planting Deciduous Trees and Shrubs, How to Plant Evergreens, Establishing the Plantings, Care and Feeding of Woody Plants, Fruit Trees for the Small Place and How to Select Tr... View More...
Original publisher's brown cloth binding with gilt floral decorations on covers and spine and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. Beautiful book with four plates depicting flowers that were meticulously colored by hand. 3 3/4" x 5 3/4." 208 pages, complete. Four hand-colored plates, complete. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Slight rippling and some corner wear to the covers. Tiny chip at the tail of the spine on the front outer joint. Light foxing to the pages. A Very Good copy. An alphabetical lexicon of women's names with their associated Signifi... View More...
Original brochure on white paper containing an advertisement for a book. Blank order form printed on the last page. No date, circa 1953. 6" x 9." Four pages, complete. One leaf folded in half and printed on all sides. Two black and white reprinted photographs, complete. On the last page, "Seattle Printing & Publishing Company" is printed at the bottom. Brochure is very clean and intact overall. One horizontal fold line at center. Carl Starker graduated from Oregon State College's Agriculture Department as a horticulturist in 1914. Starker went on to become a renowned floral designer... View More...
Reprinted from JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUREAL RESEARCH, 40 (#3 February 1, 1930). pages 263-270. illustrations. " . to determine whether the masaic disease is known to attack certain crucifers was potentially a serious problem . " View More...
Original green cloth with black lettering on front cover and spine. 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 inches. 279 pages with 7 pages of index. Copy has 134 pages of black and white illustrations which are listed. Corners, head and tail are slightly bumped. Front and back covers and spine show some wear, however, copy is very clean and complete and binding is tight. View More...
Dated at end of text 2- (19)11. Publsiher's green boards with dark green lettering and color illustration on front cover. Part of the publisher's "Present Day Gardening" series. Color photo illustrations. Cook was gardener to Queen Alexandria at Sandringham. 116 pages, including index. View More...
Illustrated boards. Eight coloured plates. The authors give historical background on the carnation and its development through the years. They discuss various aspects about raising carnations: Cultivation of Border Varieties; Exhibiting the Flow ers ; Cross-Fertilisation; Perpetual-Flowering Carnations; Stage or Bench System of Cultivation; etc. View More...
Stapled, paper booklet, minimal chipping at base of spine. Previous owner's name written in pencil on front. February, 1912 - Circular 17. Informative booklet about the pests and diseases that plague Montana orchards and delineating a spraying program of pesticides and fungicides to deal with them. 152 pages with 11 illustrations and 2 charts. View More...
