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Antique Plant Catalogues

You get 'em. And, believe it or not, your grandmother's grandmother might have too. Those seed and plant catalogs you get in the mail. But what kinds of plants did she grow? What were they called? What did they look like? Historian Denise Adams traces the history of these still familiar marketing tools and describes how she uses them to answer some of these questions (from the 2004 Historic Plant Symposium).

See the Video (42 minutes)