Piedmont Plant Co. Catalog, 1946.

Albany, Dougherty County, Georgia

Collection of Brian Brown

Here's more evidence of South Georgia's strong agricultural heritage. Piedmont Plants served farmers throughout the United States for several generations, beginning around 1906, with wholesale plants, until going out of business several years ago. Mr. E. P. DuVernet noted in the introduction to this catalog that "the victory garden program has created an army of amateur gardeners who have had the satisfaction of producing their own garden-fresh vegetables for the first time..." He goes on to note "nature has been good to us in Southwest Georgia." Some of the tomato varieties offered that year, at $1 per hundred plants, were Bonny Best, Marglobe, and Greater Baltimore. To the wholesale trade, onion plants ran $1.50 per thousand, lettuce $3 per thousand, and pepper plants $3.50 per thousand. How times have changed.