online historical seed catalogs

[templeton]

In my explorations for my research, came across the Biodiversity Heritage Library - about 60 million pages of free, online out of copyright natural history material, explorers journals, books, journals etc. (aside: (I found the type specimen description of my plant of interest, collected by La Billardiere in Tasmania in the 1700s!)). Amazing material from early botanists, the database is very searchable, and has page images.

It now includes 30000 seed catalogs from the US agriculture library.
Thought you might like to know.
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[diane]

I did a search for historic seed catalogues recently, but it must have been an art lover who compiled them,
as I could see only the front covers - nothing from inside.

Yours works! Thank you! This could keep me busy until the rains stop.

I just downloaded a 1927 list of plants collected from the Pacific Northwest. $1 a dozen for erythronium bulbs.

[Day]

templeton I've bookmarked this for future reading -- thank you for sharing!

[templeton]

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Self congratulatory tail wag...