Package, seed
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1890
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0043.008
- MANUFACTURER
- Fisher, A.L.
- MODEL
- Lettuce: Grand Rapids
- LOCATION
- Brockville, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 8
- 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
- 8.5 cm
- Width
- 5.9 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 "Grand Rapids" variety lettuce seeds. - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "LETTUCE/ GRAND RAPIDS.", "PRICE 5 CENTS" and "From A.L. FISHER, Brockville, Ont." printed on package front; "GRAND RAPIDS LETTUCE./ Quite curled, crisp and tender/ among the earliest and best./ Seed may be sewn early in hot/ bed, and transplanted to open/ ground when four inches high,/ setting plants one foot apart, or/ may be sown in open ground as/ early as it can be worked, in/ drills ten inches apart. Lettuce/ is quite hardy, and will stand/ considerable cold weather./ PUT UP BY/ A.L. FISHER, Brockville, Ont." printed on reverse. Parks Canada catalogue no. "x.71.160.170 E" 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
- Illustration of stylized lettuce head decorates package front.
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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/item/2013.0043.008/
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