Catalogue offers adventures in gardening – circa 1897

We’ve been looking at old Sears Roebuck catalogs at the East Linn Museum because they reflect much of what can be found in our collection. The catalogs won’t take us back, it’s true, to the earliest days of pioneer life in our area, which was settled around the 1850s, but the 1897 catalog is only about 40 years later, and continuities can be detected. At the same time, the 1897 catalog has a section on…