A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



one who sees it even for the first time. Though I 

 say, as I have often said before, that when the 

 compiler of so restrained, complete, and serious a 

 list as Dreer's speaks in color terms so misleading, 

 amateur gardeners, as organizations and as indi- 

 viduals, need to urge upon all such firms the 

 adoption of one of the two standard charts, and 

 that at once, before such painful things are re- 

 peated. Taken as a whole, Dreer's is a fine cata- 

 logue, certainly one of our best. Mr. W. C. 

 Egan's cultural directions are always valuable. 

 So are Mrs. Ely's, and the range in variety of 

 seeds and plants is remarkable. To roses, dahlias, 

 and hardy phloxes large spaces are allotted. Far 

 too much space is given to illustrations. I think 

 here of a lively correspondent of mine who, de- 

 ploring the frequency of poor illustrations in one 

 of our gardening journals, wrote: "I am too old 

 to be amused by pictures, and I know how to 

 grow tomatoes in a tomato-can." 



Since my eye first fell upon the list issued by the 

 Palisades Nurseries, of Sparkill, N. Y., I have been 

 less satisfied with the others upon my shelf. This 

 list speaks to the intelligent gardener. It seems 

 possessed of a certain accuracy, its color descrip- 

 tions are among the best to be found, its explana- 



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