AMERICAN SEED CATALOGUES 



trutii about the old garden tools on the farm, and 

 on that subject, not confined to Shenandoah, Iowa, 

 of a woraan's having to ask her husband for every 

 cent she spends. There is a fundamental whole- 

 someness about this catalogue which shows a sound 

 man back of it. I commend it to those who may 

 not realize the range of our seed publications, and 

 what can be done by the Middle West in the way 

 of breezy writing. 



Among the rather handsomer books of this year 

 one might mention that of Weeber & Don, of New 

 York. Here the cover bears a most attractive 

 garden picture in color, bordered by a deUcate de- 

 sign in greenish gray; the inner leaves show many 

 fine vegetables and flowers, with good descriptions 

 evidently not overdrawn. Julius Roehrs, the great 

 specialist in orchids, publishes a very adequate- 

 looking list, with a selection of names of perennials 

 suitable for the rock-garden, which will be specially 

 welcomed by those who recall the lovely garden of 

 this type shown by this company at the Grand 

 Central Palace last year (1915). 



For Henry Dawson's list, that of the Eastern 

 Nurseries, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, one can- 

 not but feel the greatest admiration. This is a list 

 without frills, in fact, almost without illustra- 



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