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Object Name |
Booklet |
Artist |
Thompson, John C. |
Date |
1871 |
Title |
Gardening Made Easy. |
Description |
Small printed soft-cover booklet with a blue paper front and back cover. Printed inscription on the front cover: "GARDENING / MADE EASY. / FOR THE MILLION. / EVERY MAN HIS OWN GARDENER. / BY / J.C. THOMPSON, / TOMPKINSVILLE, STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. / Price, -- 10 Cents. / WITH ADDITION ON CULTURE AND PRESERVING / SWEET POTATOES, PRICE 15 CENTS. / NEW-YORK: / GEORGE F. NESBITT & CO., PRINTERS, / Cor. Pearl and Pine Streets, / 1871." The booklet contains 40 printed pages of instructions on how and when to plant crops; the author notes on the first page that it is "Written for the latitude of New-York City." (Keywords: New York City) |
Ownership and History |
Staten Island resident John C. Thompson (1807-1872) served as a local public official and political leader. He was also an experimental gardener, and he published this booklet on practical urban gardening just a short time before his death. His gardening technique was noted in the "Farm, Garden and Household" column in The Star and Enterprise newspaper (Newville,, PA) on April 15, 1873: "For Potato Planters. The late John C. Thompson of Staten Island was always signally successful in getting a large yield of full-grown potatoes two to three weeks earlier than his neighbors, on the same character of soil..." |
Earliest Date |
1871 |
Latest Date |
1871 |
Maker |
George F. Nesbitt & Co. |
Material |
Paper |
Subjects |
Gardening |
Lexicon Sub-category |
Documentary Artifact |
Associated People |
Thompson, John C. |
Catalog Number |
X19.0112 |
Support Acknowledgment |
Online Collections Database record made possible by the Staten Island Historical Society, March 2019. |
Legal Status |
Items represented here are from the collections of the Staten Island Historical Society. Materials reproduced for personal non-commercial use must credit the Staten Island Historical Society. Commercial licensing is available. |