58 
THE GARDENING WORLD 
January 16. 1904. 
with a Dwarf Wax Bean, a Cucumber and Onion, all in odours. 
The coloured plates of Sweet Peas, Ivy-leaved Nasturtiums, 
Musk Melons, Water Melons, Sweet Corn, Ice Lettuce, and 
Beet are also of a highly ornamental character for the ordinary 
pages of a catalogue. The number of Water’ Melons, Musk 
Melons!, and Gourds is: also very great. All other vegetables 
are well represented, and flowers arei also profusely illustrated 
with woodcuts. Burpee’s new Busk Dolickos is described as 
the first of its kind ever obtained, and the most unique novelty 
for many a year. The leaves remind us of a Scarlet Runner, 
but. the upright spikes of flower's recall a Lupin. 
Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux and Cie, 4, Quai de la Megisserie, 
Paris, send out their Catalogue of Seeds of Hardy Trees and 
Shrubs, which we regard .as unique from the number of seeds 
of various trees and shrubs which it .contains. Many of these 
seeds arei those of hardy and .well-known subjects ; others are 
seeds of hard-wooded plants, such as can be grown in an 
orangery or greenhouse. The catalogue is practically unique 
are .also pictorially defined. Some of Messrs. Toogood’s novel¬ 
ties are displayed in dark heliotrope colours. As is usual in a 
catalogue of this size, the different varieties are carefully classi¬ 
fied and described, so that those interested will be able to pick 
out those that arei most according to their taste. The whole 
catalogue is very well got up and welf worth handling. We 
understand that the' Guide will be posted free of any charge 
to intending purchasers of garden seeds on application being 
made to the firm at Southampton. 
Showy Australian Plants for the Greenhouse. 
It is rarely nowadays that we come across a. really good 
collection of what AVeire at one time called “ New Holland 
Plants,” and which were in their day the most popular group 
of indoor plants', being at the same time the pride of the 
gardener and the severest test of bis skill as a cultivator. The 
The Shasta Daisy. (See p. 51.) 
of its kind, as we have many nurserymen issuing catalogues 
of tree® and shrubs in this country, but they consist of live 
plants and not seeds. Such nurserymen,- however, would find 
this catalogue useful. 
Mes rs. Toogood and Sons. —We have received a copy of 
Toogood’s Garden Seed Guide for 1904, issued by Messrs. 
Toogood and Sons, the well-known. Royal seedsmen of South¬ 
ampton. If is a. handsome volume of 150 pages of pictures 
and description® of the best flower and vegetable seeds. They 
can boast amongst their patrons H.M. the King and the late 
Queen Victoria. The catalogue contains many illustrations of 
vegetables, including Cucumbers grown for seed, Onions, 
Potato®, Carrots, Cabbages, Cauliflowers, and others- of the 
Brassies, tribe. Peas are also represented by a number of good 
illustrations, chiefly reproductions from photographs. Flowers 
are abundantly represented, including some fields of China 
Asters and other flowers grown for seed purpose®. Tuberous 
Begonias, grown, in the field, as well as Carnations, are por¬ 
trayed. The more recently-introduced Continental novelties 
introduction of so many quick-growing and free-flowering soft- 
wooded plants together with warmer hosuses has done much to 
oust these old favourites from their place of honour, and a 
gardener’s, skill is now mere often, tested by the growing of 
mop-like. Chrysanthemums, than by growing specimen Boronias, 
Epaeris, Eutaxias or similar things. That these plants should 
have dropped out of cultivation to such an extent is. a. pity, for 
a greenhouse furnished with such-like plants is a very interest¬ 
ing place., and though there may never be such a blaze of colour 
a t any one time as is obtained from a house of Chrysanthemum® 
in full flower, there is a lot. more to interest one, for after 
seeing a house of Chrysanthemums a few times interest flags, 
whereas' with a. collection of such tilings as these Australian 
plants we find something to interest us the whole year round. 
It. is; a. popular belief that these plants 1 are difficult, to grow, 
and they are, providing we are trying to grow them in the 
same house and under the same conditions as many of the soft- 
wooded plants, such a® Begonias, Primulas 1 , Cinerarias, Hippe- 
a.strumsi and other things so popular to-day. But if w T e give 
