Special Articles 
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View of a Bold and Handsome Rock Garden 
This feature of gardening continues to excite lively interest 
was looking at the Pea vines, just coming into bloom in his neighbor’s 
adjacent garden plot, and solemnly asked whether the vines had to 
liave these flowers on them before they would bear Peas. There is 
plenty of use yet for a little instruction in catalogs about gardening, 
and also for garden books. 
The different kinds of seeds or plants should always be arranged 
in alphabetical order, and if the varieties of a particular kind of vege- 
table, e. g.. Sweet Corn or Peas, are classed as early, mid-season, and 
late, the several varieties in each class should be alphabetically ar- 
ranged. Many catalogs violate this rule without any apparent good 
reason. 
This leads us to suggest that seedsmen and nurserymen, to some 
extent at least, should analyze their own catalogs, and give the results 
of these analysis in concise form. Por example, in the flower seed part 
of a seedsman’s catalog there would appear as a result of such an 
analysis, a list of all the annuals which he ofters, which are suitable to 
grow for cut flowers especially; another list would contain those suit- 
able for the body work of beds, and borders, a third list would indicate 
those useful for edgings, a fourth list those well adapted to growing in 
window boxes and vases, a fifth, those which will grow well in hanging 
baskets. A list may also be made of annual vines suitable for covering 
screens, etc., another for those which will cover walls, fences, stone 
heaps, unsightly places, etc. 
