Package, seed

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OBJECT TYPE: N/A
DATE: 1890
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2013.0043.017

MANUFACTURER: Fisher, A.L.
MODEL: Beet: Early Blood Red Turnip
LOCATION: Brockville, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 17
Total Parts: 62
AKA: N/A
Patents: N/A
General Description: Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black, red 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: 10.9 cm
Width: 10.1 cm
Height: 2.7 cm
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 "Early Blood Red Turnip" variety beet seeds.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: "BEET/ EARLY BLOOD RED TURNIP./ 5 c./ FROM/ A.L. FISHER./ BROCKVILLE, ONT." printed on package front. NB: Damaged package has been wrapped in parchment-like paper, secured by adhesive backed tape. "EARLY BLOOD RED TURNIP BEET./ A very early and popular variety/ wherever grown. Roots dark red,/ smooth and free from fibres, sweet/ and tender. Keeps well through/ winter and spring. Are good for/ both early and late use./ CULTURE. - Sow as soon as the/ ground can be worked for early, and/ up to the middle of June for winter/ use. A light, warm, rich loam is/ best. Use fine, well-composted/ manure ; sow in drills 20 inches/ apart, and thin the plants to six/ inches in the rows" presumed to be printed on reverse [as per .14 package] Parks Canada catalogue no. "x.71.160.170 H1" presumably printed by hand in pencil in lower right corner of package. " 170 H1/ BROKEN Pkg." printed by hand in blue ink on paper wrapper covering broken seed package.
Missing: Package damaged: some contents loose/may be missing.
Finish: Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black, red and green illustration and text.
Decoration: Illustration of whole beet with greenery 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://collection.ingenium.ca/en/id/2013.0043.017/

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