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		Florence Fennel Seeds ( Foeniculum vulgare azoricum ) Florence Fennel Seeds ( Foeniculum vulgare azoricum ). Florence Fennel is an edible plant with ornamental feathery leaves, up to two feet high, and enlarged, aromatic leaf stalks. Although a perennial it is usually grown as an annual and harvested in late summer. This southern European native was cultiva... - Florence Fennel Seeds ( Foeniculum vulgare azoricum ).		$2.95 More Information
		Floss Flower Seeds ( Ageratum houstonianum ) Floss Flower Seeds ( Ageratum houstonianum ). Tender annual for sun or partial shade. Height is two to three feet with blue flowers in the summer and fall. This is a tall-growing Ageratum, not to be confused with the dwarf bedding types now popular. Sow seeds after the last frost. Approximately... - Floss Flower Seeds ( Ageratum houstonianum ).		$3.95 More Information
		Four O'Clock Seeds ( Mirabilis jalapa ) Four O'Clock Seeds ( Mirabilis jalapa ). In July of 1767 Jefferson observed the blooms of his Four O'clocks: "Mirabilis just opened, very clever." In 1811 he noted planting seed sent by André Thouin of the Parisian Jardin des Plantes in an oval flower bed at Monticello. Four O'clocks ... - Four O'Clock Seeds ( Mirabilis jalapa ).		$3.95 More Information
		Foxglove Seeds ( Digitalis purpurea ) Foxglove Seeds ( Digitalis purpurea ). Foxglove was grown by John Custis of Williamsburg in the 1740s, and the plant seems to have been well established in American gardens by 1800. Bernard McMahon listed both the pink and white forms in his 1804 broadsheet. This showy biennial should b... - Foxglove Seeds ( Digitalis purpurea ).		$2.95 More Information
		French Mallow Seeds ( Malva sylvestris ) French Mallow Seeds ( Malva sylvestris ). When Thomas Jefferson noted "French Mallow" on an undated memorandum of cultivated flowers he was probably referring to Malva sylvestris, a European native with handsome, hollyhock-like purplish-pink flowers. French Mallow is a hardy annual or bienni... - French Mallow Seeds ( Malva sylvestris ).		$3.95 More Information
		Fringed Pink Seeds ( Dianthus superbus ) Fringed Pink Seeds ( Dianthus superbus ). Fringed Pink is a native European perennial with flowers in shades of pale pink to white. Its flowers have a spicy fragrance and deeply cut petals, thus the common name. Although recorded in European gardens by the seventeenth century, and pictured i... - Fringed Pink Seeds ( Dianthus superbus ).		$2.95 More Information
		German Johnson Tomato Seeds ( Solanum lycopersicum ) German Johnson Tomato Seeds ( Solanum lycopersicum ). This popular "potato-leaf" variety, one of the four parent lines of the 1930s introduction, 'Mortgage Lifter' Tomato, originated in the southern United States. German Johnson produces large, meaty fruit with pink flesh and bright red skin streaked ye... - German Johnson Tomato Seeds ( Solanum lycopersicum ).		$2.95 More Information
		Globe Amaranth Seeds ( Gomphrena globosa ) Globe Amaranth Seeds ( Gomphrena globosa ). Seeds were first planted by Jefferson at Shadwell, his boyhood home, on April 2, 1767. It is a tender annual best suited for a sunny, well-drained site. Globe Amaranth has clover-like flowers in magenta, pink, and occasionally white. A native of the ... - Globe Amaranth Seeds ( Gomphrena globosa ).		$2.95 More Information
		Globe Artichoke Seeds ( Cynara scolymus ) Globe Artichoke Seeds ( Cynara scolymus ). Globe Artichoke was included on one of Jefferson's first lists of vegetables grown at Monticello in 1770. His Garden Book sporadically charted the first to "come to table" and the "last dish of artichokes" from 1794 and 1825. Also known as French Art... - Globe Artichoke Seeds ( Cynara scolymus ).		$2.95 More Information
		Great Blue Lobelia Seeds ( Lobelia siphilitica ) Great Blue Lobelia Seeds ( Lobelia siphilitica ). Peter Kalm, the eighteenth-century Swedish natural historian, reported that native Americans used this perennial as a remedy for venereal disease. Carl Linnaeus therefore named it "siphilitica". Although grown in European gardens earlier, it was sold... - Great Blue Lobelia Seeds ( Lobelia siphilitica ).		$2.95 More Information
		Great Red Hibiscus Seeds ( Hibiscus coccineus ) Great Red Hibiscus Seeds ( Hibiscus coccineus ). Great Red Hibiscus, a perennial native to the coastal swamps of Georgia and Florida, was adopted as an ornamental in American gardens by the end of the eighteenth century, when George Washington ordered a plant for Mount Vernon. The species was recom... - Great Red Hibiscus Seeds ( Hibiscus coccineus ).		$2.95 More Information
		Green Nutmeg Melon Seeds (Cucumis melo cv.) Green Nutmeg Melon Seeds (Cucumis melo cv.). In 1811 Thomas Jefferson sent seed of the popular Nutmeg Melon, "which I know to be fine," to his son-in-law, John Wayles Eppes. Mentioned in Bernard McMahon's The American Gardener's Calendar, 1806, this aromatic, oval-shaped melon, with heavily net... - Green Nutmeg Melon Seeds (Cucumis melo cv.).		$3.95 More Information
		Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash Seeds (Cucurbita mixta cv.) Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash Seeds (Cucurbita mixta cv.). Cushaws likely originated in the West Indies before 1700, and this heirloom is believed to be the same variety cultivated before 1860 as "Improved Cushaw". Jefferson cultivated numerous squashes at Monticello, including "long crooked" and "warted" su... - Green Striped Cushaw Winter Squash Seeds (Cucurbita mixta cv.).		$3.95 More Information
		Hyacinth Bean Seeds ( Dolichos lablab ) Hyacinth Bean Seeds ( Dolichos lablab ). The Hyacinth Bean is featured on the arbor in the Monticello kitchen garden and draws countless questions from visitors every year. In the "Garden Book" in 1812 Jefferson mentioned, "Arbor beans white, scarlet, crimson, purple . . . on the long walk ... - Hyacinth Bean Seeds ( Dolichos lablab ).		$2.95 More Information
		Italian Parsley Seeds ( Petroselinum crispum ) Italian Parsley Seeds ( Petroselinum crispum ). Parsley dates to the ancient Greeks who associated it with grave illness, hence the saying, "to be in need of parsley." Jefferson grew the plain-leaf or Italian Parsley as early as 1774 and listed it as Common Parsley in his vegetable garden calendar... - Italian Parsley Seeds ( Petroselinum crispum ).		$2.95 More Information
		Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Pepper Seeds ( Capsicum annuum var. annuum ) Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Pepper Seeds ( Capsicum annuum var. annuum ). This Italian heirloom variety was brought to America in 1887 by the Nardello family when they immigrated to Connecticut. Jimmy Nardello, one of 11 children, preserved his mother's favorite strain of sweet frying pepper and, in 1983, his son James, do... - Jimmy Nardello's Sweet Pepper Seeds ( Capsicum annuum var. annuum ).		$2.95 More Information
		Johnny-jump-up Seeds ( Viola tricolor ) Johnny-jump-up Seeds ( Viola tricolor ). Johnny-jump-up, or heart's ease, is a showy annual with small pansy-like flowers, each of them showing three colors: deep purple, yellow, and white. The plant was established in American gardens before 1700, and Jefferson sowed it at Shadwell on Apri... - Johnny-jump-up Seeds ( Viola tricolor ).		$2.95 More Information
		Joseph's Coat Seeds ( Amaranthus tricolor ) Joseph's Coat Seeds ( Amaranthus tricolor ). Jefferson included the Joseph's Coat in a shipment of seeds to his brother-in-law, Francis Eppes, from Paris in 1786. This brightly-plumed tender annual is grown for its vibrant yellow and red foliage that provides an eye-catching display of color in... - Joseph's Coat Seeds ( Amaranthus tricolor ).		$2.95 More Information
		Lacinato Kale Seeds (Brassica oleracea var. acephala) Lacinato Kale Seeds (Brassica oleracea var. acephala). An 18th-century Italian heirloom, Lacinato Kale remains popular today due to the superior flavor of its sturdy, savoyed, dark blue-green leaves and high nutritional content. Jefferson recorded the planting of "Cavolo nero (Coleworts)" in his vegetabl... - Lacinato Kale Seeds (Brassica oleracea var. acephala).		$2.95 More Information
		Larkspur Seeds ( Consolida orientalis ) Larkspur Seeds ( Consolida orientalis ). Jefferson noted Larkspur blooming at Shadwell in July 1767, thought it suitable for naturalizing at Monticello "in the open ground on the west" in 1771, and sowed seed around his Roundabout flower border on April 8, 1810. Larkspur is a hardy annual t... - Larkspur Seeds ( Consolida orientalis ).		$3.95 More Information

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