CIVIL WAR LT. SETH RANLETT 1872-1904 RECORD BOOK of FLOWERS & TREES GROWN BY HIM For Sale

CIVIL WAR LT. SETH RANLETT 1872-1904 RECORD BOOK of FLOWERS & TREES GROWN BY HIM
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CIVIL WAR LT. SETH RANLETT 1872-1904 RECORD BOOK of FLOWERS & TREES GROWN BY HIM:
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We are offering the personal record book of former Civil War Lieutenant Seth Alonzo Ranlett [Co. B, 36th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, Army of the Potomac Brigade]. (Book is 3 1/2\" x 5 1/4\")Recorded are all the plants, flowers, and trees he grew on his properties in Melrose, Newtonville and Billerica, Massachusetts that date from 1872 to 1878 in Melrose; from 1879 to 1892 in Newtonville; and from 1893 to 1904 on his farm in Billerica. **NOTE** - S. A. Ranlett was one of the writers of the \"History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers 1862-1865\",published in 1884-of which we have Ranlett\'s personal unbound copy on at the present time.We know that Ranlett was employed by the Neptune Fire Insurance Co. of Boston, and he had pasted his name and the company name on the front cover end paper of the record book.
The plants are listed in alphabetical order for easy reference. Included are fruit & nut bearing trees - apple trees, almond trees, cherry trees, pear trees, quince trees, and currant shrubs for which Ranlett recorded the exact dates for every year when the flowers of the trees began to bloom. He also grew elm trees, maple trees, willow trees, pine, spruce, hemlock, and white birch trees. Here are just a few of the flowers in his gardens - lilacs, honeysuckle, hollyhocks, hydrangeas, irises, lily of the valley, tulips, violets and, of course, roses, and dozens and dozens more. He must have had an absolutely beautiful garden! Besides all of the above, Ranlett also grew corn, cucumbers, squash, peas, and tomatoes. Ranlett also gives recipes for fertilizers, one being made with Guano (bat excrement); and was always fighting garden pests with different mixtures - tobacco soap to drive slugs off roses and kerosene to drive away ants. He was always learning from experience as the years went by. Seth Ranlett\'s record book does not go past the year 1904, as he died on May 21, 1905. **CONDITION** - pages of book are Excellent. Covers show some wear.
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