A GARDEN NOTE-BOOK 



Springfield, Ohio, are large dealers in this flower. 

 But the most elaborate and complete book of the 

 peony alone is, I think, that of the Mohican Peony 

 Gardens, at Sinking Springs, Pennsylvania. This 

 is truly a delightful handbook of the peony, with 

 half-tones as illustrations and careful descriptions 

 of each variety listed. Another excellent hst in 

 black-and-white is the peony list T. C. Thurlow's 

 Sons send out, a dignified and excellent catalogue; 

 and I happen to be old-fashioned enough to think 

 that some of this dignity arises from the fact that 

 the firm does no business on Sunday, going even to 

 the point of excluding visitors from their grounds 

 on that day. There is something specially frank 

 and honest about the Thurlow list, as there is 

 about those others of Lovett, of Little Silver, 

 New Jersey, and of our friend, Frederick H. Hors- 

 ford, of Charlotte, Vermont — and in thus speak- 

 ing I would not intend any unpleasant inferences 

 — no, not at all. 



To go back for an instant — every one knows 

 F. H. Horsford, of Vermont; his modest and com- 

 pact catalogue is a welcome visitor each January. 

 Lovett, of Little Silver, New Jersey, sends out a 

 very interesting list of fruits and flowers, and a 

 group of good growers at Painesville, Ohio, also is- 



