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I The Contents for February, 1920 | 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



The Onlooker 49 



The Sweet Pea — Its Culture . . . . G. W. Kerr 5 1 



Raising Plants from Seed 52 



Repotting Root-Bound Plants 52 



How to Reduce the Cost of Living 53 



Hotbeds for Early Vegetables 54 



An Oil-Heated Hotbed that Works 54 



Pruning Evergreen Shrubs 54 



Making a Start with Bees. . .Henry W. Sanders 55 



The Right Care of Old Trees. . Edwin Mallhems 56 

 The Value of School Gardens to Cultivate 



Americanism Arthur Smith 57 



A Miniature Rock Garden 58 



Rockwork Edgings to Drives 58 



The Caucasian Scabious and Its Culture 58 



Cultural Notes on Antirrhinums 59 



Artemisia Lactiflora 59 



An Arboreal Slattern 59 



The Month's Work in the Garden 



John Johnson 60 



The Dracaenas T. Shexvard 61 



The Month's Work in the Greenhouse 



Henry Gibson 62 



Begonia Gracilis Henry J. Moore 63 



Fruiting of Apple Trees Every Other Year ... 64 



The Flowering Dogwood (Cornus Florida) ... 64 



Streptocarpi and Their Culture 65 



A Lesson on Some Whys of Crop Rotation. . . 



Arthur Smith 66 



National Association of Gardeners' Notes. ... 69 



Among the Gardeners 70 



Tlie American Iris Society 71 



Local Societies 72 



Of General Interest 73 



Inteniatioiial Flower Show, .Vi'tt' York — 



Horticultural Exhibitions 



The Questionnaire 74 



Here and There 75 



IVhy We Mulch Plants in Winter — Renaming 



German Irises — Soil Ventilation — The Keyed 



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