A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



its cover a decorative drawing of the flower of the 

 tulip-tree. This, however, is not the principal list 

 issued by this firm. The book of evergreen trees 

 of Hill, of Dundee, lUinois, gaudy and cheap- 

 looking, is nevertheless good of its kind. 



By far the finest of such catalogues, and one 

 which has but now come to my notice, is that of 

 the California Nursery Company, of Niles, Cali- 

 fornia. This is, of course, of local interest first, 

 but as an educational force it is of general interest 

 too. Its pictures and text are equally delightful; 

 it embraces many unfamiliar subjects, from the 

 bougainvillea to the Smyrna fig, from the cypress 

 to the prune, and it should serve as a kind of hor- 

 ticultural Baedeker to the California traveller. 

 Carl Purdy's list of native California plants sent 

 out from Ukiah is another of these local lists of 

 great interest. Theodore Payne, of Los Angeles, 

 sends forth a very valuable booklet on "Wild 

 Flowers of California." 



Two unusual catalogues, and those of a nature 

 to be of special interest to the owner or maker of 

 a formal garden, are of trained fruit-trees. It is 

 true that we have yet to learn the ravishing beauty 

 of fruit-trees for the spring garden, exactly as it is 

 true that we (whose spring is really one vast 



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