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Seed catalogue

Seed catalogue cover 1951. Centred uppercase title: "Catalogue de GRAINES de SEMENCE pour le Potager Familial" (Seed Catalogue for the Family Vegetable Garden). "1951" between decorative lines (top). Below: "Voir graines de fleurs page 8" (See flower seeds page 8) (left, stylized tree), "et ARBRISSEAUX" (and SHRUBS) (vertical centre), "Voir Marronniers page 10" (See Chestnut Trees page 10) (right, stylized tree). Bottom (large letters): "Lucien Dubé", "Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière". Bottom left: "Comté Kamouraska, Qué." (Kamouraska County, Que.). Bottom right: "Case Postale 248 Téléphone 405-s-3" (Post Office Box 248 Telephone 405-s-3). Cream background.

Lucien Dubé (1911-1994), seed catalogue for the family vegetable garden, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, 1951. Lucien Dubé Estate.

Starting in spring 1945, Lucien Dubé operated a vegetable and flower seed business. The seeds were imported products that had become scarce due to the war, and were described as [Translation] “seeds that had become acclimatized to cold regions” Dubé also offered several varieties of fruit and nut trees from his small farm and pine forest, Sensitive to the beauty of nature, he took up folk painting and taught himself photography in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière, where he strove to personally depict the grandeur of the Laurentian landscape that he loved so much.