Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine - October 1890 1890, James Vick Seedsman, Rochester, NY no edition stated Americana/ Gardening Approx. 6x9 inches, published by James Vick, Seedsman, Rochester, NY. Very good condition. "Spring fever was as common 150 years ago as it is now, and for many winter-weary souls, the illustrated seed catalogs that began appearing in that era are still the closest thing to a cure.... Among the many fine examples of early seed catalogs, James Vick's Illustrated Monthly...an offshoot of The Vick Seed Company, established in 1860,that sent seeds to customers through mail order and by 1862, employed 150 people and was receiving 3000 letters a day....It wasn't only the pictures that set Vick's catalogs apart: he was also a first-rate writer who entertained his readers with advice and anecdotes touching on every aspect of gardening and beyond. A consummate salesman, Vick enticed his readers with tantalizing descriptions of the plants he sold: “The Chinese Paeonies are so valuable on account of their large size, beautiful coloring and delightful fragrance, and so entirely hardy and vigorous, that I am anxious all my customers should have at least a White and Pink variety. But Vick's enthusiasm for gardening was more than merely commercial. His stated desire to “create a taste for the beautiful in gardening, and a true love of flowers among the people found expression in many fanciful passages, like the following: “Man may be refined and happy without a garden; he may even have a home of taste, I suppose, without a tree, or shrub, or flower; yet, when the Creator wished to prepare a proper home for man, pure in all his tastes and made in His own image, He planted a garden and placed this noblest specimen of creative power in it to dress and keep it....." [ny hist. soc.]

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