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The Contents for January, 1920 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



The Onlooker 



Landscape Possibilities with Brook and Nat- 

 ural Stream Richard Rolhe 



Frost and the Plants Awakening 



Keeping Bees in the Garden. .H. W. Sanders 



Plant Names and Their Meanings 



Willard N. Clule 



Why Fruit Trees Do Not Bear 



The Country Estate of Samuel Hessberg, 



Cedar Hill, N. Y 



Descriptive List of Hardy and Semi-Hardy 



Primulas Henry J. Moore 



Primula Malacoides 



An English Cottage Garden 



The Month's Work in the Greenhouse. . . . 



Henry Gibson 



The Month's Work in the Garden 



John Johnson 



The Resting Period of Plants 



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Pleasure Plus Profit in Planting 



Mushroom Culture T. Sheward 



Common Sense in Painting Greenhouses. 



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Jay D. Earlman 408 



A Lesson on Soil Formation and Its Bacteria 



Arthur Snilh 



National Association of Gardeners 



Among the Gardeners 



The Questionnaire 



American Homes and Gardens 



Economic Botany 



The Weed Problem 



The Power of Growth 



The Trees 



Reviving Wilted Blossoms 



The Moccasin Flower 



Of General Interest 



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