Gardeners have relied on the mail for centuries. Long before mail-order nurseries first sent their catalogs to customers, gardeners wrote to friends asking for a piece of a peony root, a tulip bulb or ...

The internet hasn’t killed off the mail-order catalog. Discover a list of popular mail order catalogs from direct-to-consumer clothing and home brands who are banking on physical snail-mail pieces as ...

SEATTLE (CBS.MW) -- Selections from mail-order catalog retailers including French Country Living, Tiffany and Cartier can be viewed through Amazon.com. Several months ago, search site Google added ...

Nurseries are willing to order plants for you, and you can always try starting your plants from seed. If you can’t get what you want locally, and starting a particular plant from seed isn’t practical ...

Thirty-five years ago, print media was having a renaissance. And the uncontested leader of the medium, with more cultural relevance than most magazines or books, was a clothing catalog, delivered free ...

It’s always fun when garden catalogs arrive in the mail. Mine generally start to arrive in December and continue through February. In the evening when things slow down, you will find me drooling over ...

Sears' mail-order catalogs from the 1950s and 1960s offered dogs, ponies, monkeys, and other animals for purchase. Sears offered live animals through its mail-order catalogs from 1956 to 1964. However ...

Aaron Montgomery Ward saw catalogs as an expression of American values. Aaron Montgomery Ward saw catalogs as an expression of American values. His catalogs gave more people, especially Black and ...

Before the advent of the mail-order catalog, rural black southerners typically only had the option of shopping at white-owned general stores — often run by the owner of the same farm where they worked ...

Mail-order catalogs have been mostly dead for a while, but now Amazon is putting a new twist on the idea for the digital shopping age. But to the retailer, that’s the entire point. Just stop saying ...