Package, seed
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1890
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0043.034
- MANUFACTURER
- Fisher, A.L.
- MODEL
- Cucumber: Boston Pickling
- LOCATION
- Brockville, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 34
- Total Parts
- 62
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black and green illustration and text.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 8.3 cm
- Width
- 6.6 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- N/A
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Agriculture
- Category
- Horticulture
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Fisher
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- City
- Brockville
Context
- Country
- Canada
- State/Province
- Ontario
- Period
- Presumably used c. 1890; possibly also used later.
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
General: Used to identify, contain and promote contents. Specific: This package used to contain "Boston Pickling" variety cucumber seeds. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "CUCUMBER,/ BOSTON PICKLING.", "Concombre.", "PRICE 5 CENTS," AND "- FROM -/ A.L. FISHER, - BROCKVILLE, ONT." printed on package front; "BO[STON PICKLING CUCUMBER]/ The best variety for pickles ,/ yields well. Is also excellent/ for cutting fresh. Its good/ shape, color, and great produc-/ tiveness render it one of the/ most desirable sorts for the/ garden./ CULTURE - Plant after the/ ground is settled and warm, in/ hills five or six feet apart./ When all danger from bugs/ and worms is past, thin the/ plants, leaving three or four/ to a hill. Remove the cucum-/ bers from the vine as soon as/ they are of suitable size, as if/ left to ripen they prevent new/ fruit forming./ PUT UP BY/ A.L. [FISHER " printed on reverse. [Bracketed text is obscured by package form.] Parks Canada catalogue no. "x.71.160.170 Q1" printed by hand in pencil in lower right corner of package back.
- Missing
- Package and contents appear complete.
- Finish
- Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black and green illustration and text.
- Decoration
- Package front bears illustration of cucumbers and greenery.
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Fisher, A.L., Package, seed, circa 1890, Artifact no. 2013.0043, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collections.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0043.034/
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