AMERICAN SEED CATALOGUES 



sue lists of about this size and character — Storrs 

 & Harrison (whose book is, indeed, larger than the 

 others), Ralph Huntington, and Martin Kohankie, 

 an adventurer in plants. No less than three 

 excellent small catalogues are sent out this year 

 by as many women — Mrs. Strunsky, of Engle- 

 wood. New Jersey; Mrs. Wolcott, of Jackson, 

 Michigan, and Mrs. McFate, of Turtle Creek, 

 Peimsylvania. In the charming list of Frank M. 

 Thomas, West Chester, Pennsylvania, an amateur 

 whose first catalogue is out this season, "A Classi- 

 fication of Color Terms," I find a remarkable 

 piece of writing.* 



Farr's, of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, is the larg- 

 est of such lists as we are now considering, and this 

 is a catalogue of great value. It is so evidently the 

 result of much research reading and experiment, 

 its list of varieties in irises and peonies are so 

 exhaustive and seem to be classified to such per- 

 fection, that I have come to ttu'n to it as to a 

 book of reference on these flowers. Its color- 

 plates, too, are of uncommon excellence. 



Roses are next on our group of catalogues of 



* Mr. Thomas fell in France during the war. TTii business is carried 

 on as a memorial to him under the name of the Twin Larches Nurseries by 

 a relative and a friend. It is his due that this should be made known. 



— L. Y. K. 



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