The world’s choicest foods are as close as your telephone or your mailbox when you catalog-shop for holiday hospitality treats and festive feasts for food lovers. Smoked salmon on your gift list?

While mail-order companies may seem like a relic of the past, they served an important role in retail history and continue to operate to this day. Mail-order catalogs are physical books or booklets ...

Q: I bought some beautiful day lilies from the nursery that have done very well in my garden. I purchased some more this spring and am really hooked! I have a catalog from a California and Oregon ...

Even if you have no plans to start your garden from seed, garden catalogs give the chance to imagine what’s possible. Often in full color, these catalogs share what’s new and tell stories of crops ...