Radiant (and bygone?) grapes from an 1890 seed catalog.

Got a new 1913 seed and tree catalog yesterday - here's some lusciousness.  (I enjoy poring over antique seed catalogs whilst letting my actual garden go entirely untended.)

And we've got the ephemera-collecting niche of the seed/garden catalog.  They too contained gasp-inducing (I'm only speaking for myself) illustrations of fruit.  These are from 1936.

And Mastodon strawberries!

And then there are the floral illustrations in these catalogs and many of them are just mad.  Here the centerfold, sadly somewhat cropped by my scanner.