Re: [gardeners] Catalogs

George Shirley (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 09:56:51

At 09:14 PM 1/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
>At 09:32 AM 1/9/98, you wrote:
>>The catalogs have been flooding in for the last week or ten days. So far
>>we've gotten:
>>
>>Park Seed		Johnny's		Pinetree		
>>Wilhite			Select Seeds		Territorial		
>>Tomato Growers Supply	Shepherd's		Gardens Alive
>>Gurney's		Henry Field's		Lee Valley Garden Tools
>>Liberty Seed		Burpee			Richters
>>Fox Hollow		R. H. Shumway's
>>
>>I'm almost afraid to go to the mail box anymore, they're coming in batches
>>of two or three at a time. One day we got five!! I must be on a mailing
>>list. <VBG>
>>Decisions, decisions, don't really need anymore seed and trying to be
>>strong but it's a terrible temptation. I could end up like Catharine Vinson
>>and have a #3 wash tub full of seed packets. Hep me, hep me.
>>
>>George
>>
>>
>
>George,
>
>The prospect of a mailbox full of catalogs and all them purty pictures, is
>the only thing getting me out of the house these wintery days.
>
>Cynthia
>
>
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>
Many of the seed companies must use the same ad agency, so many of the
pictures are identical (and often unrealistic).

George