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The Contents for May, 1921 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



Montague Free 567 



Annual and Biennial Plants — Some of Their 



Uses Robert Cameron 569 



Composition of Living Things. Willard N. Clute 572 



The Care and Culture of the Philadelphus in the 



Garden Dr. E. Bade 573 



Conservation of Rare Wild Flowers 



Bertha Berbert-Hammond 574 



Late Tulips on May Day. . . .Frank B. Me^er 575 



Work for the Month in the Garden 



Samuel Colding 576 



Spring Flowering Phloxes Richard Rolhe 577 



Our Garden of Annual Flowers. F/oru-ii .4 ma/or 578 



Herbaceous Calceolaria William Reach 



May Birds Paul B. Riis 



Some Neglected Native Trees. .Herbert Durand 



The Greenhouse, Month to Month 



W. R. Fon>l(es 



A Lesson on the Plant in Relation to Its Food 



Arthur Smith 



Departments of Foreign E.xchange and Book 



Reviews 



Examinations for Professional Gardeners 



Arthur Smith 



National Association of Gardeners 



Local Societies 



Questionnaire 



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