A GUIDE TO GARDEN WISHBOOKS

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A packet of seed today...a bountiful harvest tomorrow.

About the only way most ardent gardeners manage to get through the winter months—when most of last year's carefully tended beds are buried in snow or mired in mud—is by curling up with a bunch of seed catalogues and dreaming about the coming spring's bigger and better gardens. The whole family gathers around the supper table and oohs and ahs over the glossy pictures of early carrots dug young and sweet, and shining greens fairly singing with life.

The back yard grower, thank goodness, can raise tomatoes that practically ooze with flavor; melons perfectly suited to an area's climatic quirks; succulent foods that don't even exist in supermarkets; and even such exotics as red carrots and blue potatoes. And, surely, half the pleasure provided by such flavor-packed, site-specific, varieties is the self-satisfaction that comes with discover ing them.

So, to ease your pregarden doldrums, we've prepared a list of the major seed companies that supply catalogues. Then, for good measure, we've added the names of some less well known companies. Write to any of the firms in the list below (don't forget to add the charge for postage if one is indicated), and you'll receive a veritable book of dreams.

Then, once you've finished going through your catalogue collection and laying out the umpteenth possible plan for your 1988 garden, it'll be nigh onto planting time!

Alberta Nurseries & Seeds, Ltd.
Box 20
Bowden, Alta.
Canada T0M 0K0

Burgess Seed & Plant Co.
905 Four Seasons Rd.
Bloomington, IL 61701 Burpee Seed Co.
300 Park Ave.
Warminster, PA 18991-0003 D.V. Burrell Seed Co.
Box 150

Rocky Ford, CO 81067-0150 Capriland's Herb Farm
534 Silver St.
Coventry, CT 06238

The Cook's Garden
Box 65
Londonderry, VT 05148 DeGiorgi Co., Inc.
Box 413
Council Bluffs, IA 51502
(send $1 for postage)

Epicure Seeds, Ltd.
Box 450
Brewster, NY 10509 Henry Field and Co.
407 Sycamore St.
Shenandoah, IA 51602

Gurney Seed & Nursery
Yankton, SD 57079

Harris Moran Seed Co.
3670 Buffalo Rd.
Rochester, NY 14624

H.G. Hastings & Co.
Box 4274
Atlanta, GA 30302-4274

Heirloom Gardens
P.O. Box 138
Guerneville, CA 95446
(catalogue $2; mostly herbs)

Horticultural Enterprises
P.O. Box 810082
Dallas, TX 75381-0082
(send LSASE)

Jackson & Perkins
1 Rose Ln.
Medford, OR 97501

Johnny's Selected Seeds
305 Foss Hill Rd.
Albion, ME 04910

(please use postcard)

J.W. Jung Seed Co.
335 S. High St.
Randolph, WI 53957