Re: Select Seeds (address)

elect Seeds are at:

180 Stickney Hill Road
Union, CT 06076-4617
Tel: (860) 684-9310
Toll-free fax: (800) 653-3304
Email: info@selectseeds.com
Website: http://selectseeds.com

Graham Rice



>I'd like to order the Select Seeds Catalog.  Can you post
>the address, phone number or e-mail address?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Lee Anne
>Eastern Washington
>
>
>On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 23:29:18 -0500 Graham Rice <graham@grahamrice.com>
>writes:
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>>The new catalogue from Select Seeds arrived today - and it's
>>wonderful! I'd
>>never seen it before, being a British gardening writer only now
>>getting to
>>grips with the American seed trade I've recently been looking at many
>>American catalogues but this one is outstanding.
>>
>>How they make a living I can't imagine as the ratio of varieties to
>>pages
>>is very low... but I was thrilled to see that so many varieties which
>>are
>>so hard to find were included:
>>Like the old Victorian striped snapdragon 'Brighton Rock';
>>Like an extensive collection of pre-Spencer sweet peas;
>>Like the Victorian variegated annual hop;
>>Like 'White Linen', the white California poppy;
>>Like a long list of double and fringed opium poppies;
>>Like the invaluable but so rare 'McGregor's Favorite' ornamental beet;
>>
>>I've recently finished a book, Discovering Annuals, to be published in
>>the
>>UK by Frances Lincoln and in the US by Timber Press in the spring. And
>>I
>>was delighted to see that many of the varieties that I was tempted to
>>exclude from the American edition, thinking them unavailable in the
>>US, are
>>in the Select Seeds catalogue.
>>
>>I've no idea if their service is prompt (they say 6 days maximum) and
>>I've
>>no idea if the packets come with good information. But the listing is
>>exceptional and the catalogue a delight to read...
>>
>>Graham Rice
>>Northamptonshire, UK (and sometimes in NJ, USA)
>>Zone 8, (6b)
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>>The new catalogue from Select Seeds arrived today - and it's
>>wonderful!
>>I'd never seen it before, being a British gardening writer only now
>>getting to grips with the American seed trade I've recently been
>>looking at many American catalogues but this one is outstanding.
>>
>>
>>How they make a living I can't imagine as the ratio of varieties to
>>pages is very low... but I was thrilled to see that so many varieties
>>which are so hard to find were included:
>>
>><paraindent><param>right,left</param>Like the old Victorian striped
>>snapdragon 'Brighton Rock';
>>
>>Like an extensive collection of pre-Spencer sweet peas;
>>
>>Like the Victorian variegated annual hop;
>>
>>Like 'White Linen', the white California poppy;
>>
>>Like a long list of double and fringed opium poppies;
>>
>>Like the invaluable but so rare 'McGregor's Favorite' ornamental beet;
>>
>></paraindent>
>>
>>I've recently finished a book, Discovering Annuals, to be published in
>>the UK by Frances Lincoln and in the US by Timber Press in the spring.
>>And I was delighted to see that many of the varieties that I was
>>tempted to exclude from the American edition, thinking them
>>unavailable
>>in the US, are in the Select Seeds catalogue.
>>
>>
>>I've no idea if their service is prompt (they say 6 days maximum) and
>>I've no idea if the packets come with good information. But the
>>listing
>>is exceptional and the catalogue a delight to read...
>>
>>
>>Graham Rice
>>
>>Northamptonshire, UK (and sometimes in NJ, USA)
>>
>>Zone 8, (6b)
>>
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>>
>>
>
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