January 16. 1904. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
57 
Trade Notices. 
Seed and Plant Catalogues. 
Messrs. Wm. Cutbush and Son. —From the Higligate Nur¬ 
series, London, N., the above firm sends out a, number of cata¬ 
logues containing various subjects requiring attention at this 
season of the year. The Flower, Vegetable, and Farm Seed 
Catalogue runs to eighty-one pages, and contains a. great 
amount of information relative to the seeds of the subjects 
just indicated. It contains good illustrations of Potato®, 
Onions, Melons, Peas, and other vegetables. The usual array 
of flower seeds is briefly described in tabular form, but the firm 
seems to have made great additions to> their usual stock of 
plants, seeing that they include twenty pages of novelties and 
specialities in flower seeds, containing a. very large number of 
illustrations. A good many of the novelties we have 
noted before, but Messrs. Cutbush have evidently been 
extending this department, of the business greatly. 
Hardy Ohrysan them mils are represented by a field of 
C. maximum Princess Henry. A fine plantation of 
Eremurus grown at their herbaceous nurseries, Finchley, 
is shown. Another illustration represents Incarvillea 
gran diflora.. Many other useful garden plants, either 
new or of recent introduction, are also illustrated. 
Accompanying the above is a very useful descriptive 
catalogue of Roses belonging to various classes, but 
arranged alphabetically, and the varieties indicated 
after the name in such a way that their proper class 
can be determined at a glance. A catalogue of fruit 
trees contains alphabetical and descriptive lists of the 
■best hardy and other fruitsi in cultivation. The culti¬ 
vation of hardy herbaceous and alpine plants has been 
greatly extended recently, and the firm now issues a 
catalogue especially devoted to this class! of plants. 
This leads off with a list of new and rare hardy plants 
running to sixteen pages, and contains many beautiful 
and interesting subjects that are anything but common 
in cultivation. Then follows a longer list, also alpha¬ 
betically arranged, of the older and better known sub¬ 
jects in cultivation. The list is rendered interesting by 
the insertion of numerous illustrations of Fritillaries, 
Snowdrops, Ranunculus, and other subjects. A list of 
aquatics and hardy Water Lilies, also Bamboos 1 , bog 
plants, early flowering Chrysanthemums, and various 
other lists are given. Their Catalogue of Trees, Shrubs, 
and Climbers is also on our table, and includes a great 
number of suitable subjects for garden and park deco¬ 
ration. 
Messrs. John Peed and Son. —A very full seed cata¬ 
logue is issued by Messrs. Peed and Son, W. Norwood, 
London. It comes out in white covers, with embossed 
gold lettering on the front cover. The illustrations are 
fairly numerous, including full-page photographs of 
C'aladiums, Primulas, and others of their specialities. 
Both vegetables and flowers are represented by 
numerous illustrations, many of which are woodcuts. 
All are arranged alphabetically, with descriptive matter 
relating to each kind or variety, making altogether a 
’ useful and workable catalogue. 
Messrs. Wm. Bull and Sons. —The seed catalogue 
issued by the above firm from King’s Road, Chelsea, 
runs to seventy-two' pages, and includes: a. useful index 
of the various subjects given. The part relating to flowers is 
verv freely illustrated with reproductions from photographs 
of Ten-weeks Stocks, Pansies, Primulas, Schizanthus, tuberous 
Begonias, and many others. A large number of woodcuts are 
also given. We note numbers of novelties included in the 
middle of the catalogue, there being- nine pages devoted to 
them, including Chinese Primroses, Bull’s White Excelsior- 
Stock, Polyanthuses, Schizanthus, and many other subjects. 
Seeds of choice hybridised Orchids are also offered, and surely 
these are novelties in the truest sense of the term, as well as 
an innovation in an ordinary seed catalogue. 
Messrs. Robert Veitch and Son. —From 54, High Street, 
Exeter, the above firm sends out their catalogue in the usual 
form, with novelties in vegetables and flower seeds. The 
former occupy the commencement of the catalogue, and in¬ 
clude a striking novelty named Drumhead Kale, the heart of 
which is that of a Drumhead Cabbage, but the outer leaves 
are crisped like: a Curly Kale. Potato' General Buller seems 
a noble tuber if the average of them comes up to the standard 
here illustrated. Amongst flowering novelties we note the 
Shasta Daisy, the single form of the annual garden Aster, the 
Mock Cypress, Arctotisi grandis, Salvia splendent Lord Faunt- 
leroy, and various others. All of these are well described, 
some of them at considerable length, so that readers should 
have no difficulty infixing upon those things which they desire. 
Messrs. Fisher, Sou, and Sibrav, Limited. —The above firm 
sends out from the Royal Handsworthi Nurseries, near Sheffield, 
a catalogue of vegetables and flower -seeds, illustrated with 
photographic reproductions of Peas, Runner Beans, Broccoli, 
Jacobinia coccinea : Flowers crimson. (See p. 51.)| 
Potatos, and other .subjects. The descriptive matter relating 
to flowers is also accompanied by numerous illustrations that 
serve to show the character of the flowers to which they relate. 
Messrs. Bradley Bros., The Nurseries, Mill Lane, Bardney, 
Lines, England, issue a catalogue of vegetable and flower seeds 
of convenient size for the pocket, and we note this is termed 
“ Bradley Bros.’ Concise Book of Seeds.” The front cover is 
ornamented with a Chinese Aster in colours. 
Messrs. Atlee, Burpee and Co , Philadelphia, II. S. A. —The 
“ Farm Annual ” sent out by the above firm contains a large 
number of coloured illustrations on the ordinary pages of the 
catalogue. The front cover is ornamented with a Tomato and 
a stringles® Scarlet Runner, while the back one is ornamented 
