Day: February 5, 2010

Livermore’s 109-Year-Old Bulb

From The Oldhouse Gardens newsletter…. 109-Year-Old Bulb Burning Bright  For a different kind of heirloom bulb, check out the illuminating website of Livermore, California’s Centennial Light Bulb. Installed in a firehouse in 1901, it’s the longest-burning incandescent bulb in the…

Looking for a book…

All –     Grand Old Man Robert Sydenham wrote a couple of booklets back in the day, one of them being “How I Came to Grow Bulbs…” (c.1908) In his “All About Daffodils,” he mentions that in “How I…