Gary Hornseth: Fun fact: The Plant Seed Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1845 by a man named William Plant. It also had cool catalog art. Here’s one from 1892. Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery & Seed Trade Catalog Collection, National Agricultural Library, via @archive.org; archive.org/details/seed...

Fun fact: The Plant Seed Co. of St. Louis, Missouri, was founded in 1845 by a man named William Plant. It also had cool catalog art. Here’s one from 1892. Source: Henry G. Gilbert Nursery & Seed Trade Catalog Collection, National Agricultural Library, via @archive.org; archive.org/details/seed...

back when for many people if you wanted it, you had to grow it 🥰

Charles Dickens could not have conjured a better name for a purveyor of seeds.

Now, that's some nominative determinism if I ever saw it.

That cover is beautiful.

I love it when people use their surname for appropriate purposes. My friend I do pyro with has the surname of “Boom”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Aptronym - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

I love graphic design work from this era. They're like "what font shall I use bro?" and the answer is always "ALL OF THEM" :)

Cette affiche est splendide

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