General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

27

Total Parts

62

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black and red illustration and text.

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

10.7 cm

Width

8.8 cm

Height

1.5 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 "Long Smooth Dark Blood" variety beet seeds.

Technical

Unknown

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

"BEET./ LONG SMOOTH DARK BLOOD.", "BETTERAVE LONGUE ROUGE LISSE." and "PRICE 5 CENTS,/ From A.L. FISHER, Brockville, Ont." printed on package front; "LONG SMOOTH BLOOD BEET./ A good winter varie[ty] ; flesh dark red blood/ red, sweet, tender and fine grained when/ young and before fully blown. Retains its dark/ colour well after being cooked./ CULTURE. - Sow as soon as the ground can/ be worked, for early, and up to the first of June/ for winter use. A light warm, rich/ loam is best ; use fine well composted man-/ure ; sow in drills/ 24 inches apart, and thin/ the plants to 6 inches/ in the rows./ PUT UP BY/ A.L. FISHER, - Brockville, Ont." printed on reverse. Parks Canada catalogue no. "x.71.160.170 D1" printed by hand in pencil in lower right corner of package back.

Missing

Package and contents appear complete.

Finish

Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black and red illustration and text.

Decoration

Illustration of whole long beet decorates package front.