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Vintage Botanical Prints – 74 in a series – Vintage Malus domestica Print from USDA Pomological Watercolors

Click for larger image from USDA Pomological Watercolors     Read more on this topic: Sweet Potato Check-in from A Gardener’s Notebook via TikTok [Video] Historical Seed Catalogs – 76 Continue Reading

Posted On : February 8, 2022 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 04

DON’T, when invited to inspect a friend’s horticultural efforts, enlarge the whole time on the beauties of someone else’s garden that they have never seen. Read and Download the entire Continue Reading

Posted On : November 27, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 03

DON’T talk much about your garden when you take friends round ; they come to tell you about theirs. Read and Download the entire book from Archive.org * A portion Continue Reading

Posted On : November 20, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 02

DON’T kill the birds that eat your fruit buds; you can buy fruit — but not the songs of birds in Spring.   N.B. — They eat insects too. Read Continue Reading

Posted On : November 13, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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From Gardening Don’ts (1913) by M.C. 01

DON’T, if you are not already the owner of a garden, neglect to become one as soon as possible ! Many are the joys — few the sorrows — that Continue Reading

Posted On : November 5, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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Historical Seed Catalogs: Dahlia guide. Nineteen-twenty / J.J. Broomall (1920) – 33 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old seed catalogs (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 23, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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What I’m Reading: The Garden Book of California (1906) – 6 in a series – “Then be ready for the planting…”

Photo by Karly Jones on Unsplash “First, in buying nursery stock buy of reliable firms; refuse substitutions, and insist upon healthy and perfect plants. Then be ready for the planting, which means that Continue Reading

Posted On : August 22, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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Historical Garden Books: Landscape garden series by Ralph Rodney Root (1921) – 44 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old gardening books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 21, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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Historical Seed Catalogs: Henderson’s flowers for American gardens (1921) – 32 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old seed catalogs (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 16, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch
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Historical Garden Books: Treatise culture of the dahlia and cactus by E. Sayers (1839) – 44 in a series

Archive.org has a host of old gardening books (from mid-19th to mid-20th Century) available in many formats and on a host of topics. I happened across a few in my Continue Reading

Posted On : August 14, 2019 Published By : Douglas E. Welch

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