Package, seed
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- OBJECT TYPE
- N/A
- DATE
- 1890
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2013.0043.051
- MANUFACTURER
- Fisher, A.L.
- MODEL
- Melon: Bay View Musk
- LOCATION
- Brockville, Ontario, Canada
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 51
- Total Parts
- 62
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- Light brown paper envelope-style package bears black and green illustration and text.
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 13.3 cm
- Width
- 9.8 cm
- Height
- 1.8 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 "Bay View Musk" variety melon seeds. - Technical
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Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- "MELON./ BAY VIEW MUSK.", "(Melon), "PRICE 5 CENTS." and "From A.L. FISHER, Brockville, Ont." printed on package front; "BAY VIEW MUSK MELON./ One of the very best Mus[k]/ Melon grown ; good size ; ova[l]/ shaped ; flesh very thick ; of/ greenish color ; is quite earl[y]/ and is quite a favorite whereve[r]/ grown./ CULTURE. - Plant in sprin[g]/ after danger from frost is pa[st]/ in hills six feet apart ; manur[e]/ in the hill and mix in well wit[h]/ the earth ; thin the plants t[o]/ three in a hill./ PUT UP BY/ A.L. FISHER, Brockville, Ont." printed on reverse. Parks Canada catalogue no. "X.71.160.170 U" 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 green illustration and text.
- Decoration
- Package front bears illustration of large melon.
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Fisher, A.L., Package, seed, 1890, Artifact no. 2013.0043, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/2013.0043.051/
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