A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Michell's (of Philadelphia) catalogue, barring a 

 fearsome page of roses in color, is a very excellent 

 and complete one; it illustrates good tools and 

 baskets with a fulness hardly to be met with in 

 other lists, and is in that respect rather a favorite 

 of mine. 



To the old and fine firm of John Lewis Childs 

 we owe Gladiolus Childsii — one of the finest types 

 in cultivation. This house also introduced Rud- 

 beckia Golden Glow — a flower now despised by 

 the initiated, but which, I venture to say, has 

 brought more pleasure into squalid city surround- 

 ings than any heretofore known. Elliott, of 

 Pittsburg, sends out lists which are always worth 

 having — excellent selections of plants and shrubs 

 are always on his pages. The cultural directions 

 for delphiniums in Elliott's list are such as one 

 cannot afford to miss. 



A colloquial of coUoquials in seed-list lore is 

 Henry Field, of Shenandoah, Iowa. There is no 

 list so amusing as this, although in places it reminds 

 us of Bees' list published at Liverpool, in which I 

 always think I see an Irish hand ! Read in Henry 

 Field, page 55, "Woman's Rights in the Garden," 

 and have as hearty a laugh as you have had for 

 long. Yet, underneath the humor of it, notice the 



