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I The Contents for December, 1920 I 



Tilings and Thoughts of the Garden 



Monlague Free 391 



Plants for Winter Effect in Southern Florida. . 



E. Heppler 393 



The Argument for Wild Gardening 



Herbert Durand 395 



American Wild Flowers 395 



The Cedar of Lebanon. . . .Maude R. Toombs 396 



Dutch Bulb-Growing for World's Market .... 398 



Living Christmas Trees 398 



Lilacs (Syringas) Arborum Amalor 399 



The Month's Work in Garden and Greenhouse 



Henry Gibson 400 



A Lesson on Plant Physiology and the Plant in 



Relation to Its Environment. .Arlhur Smith 402 



Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book 



Reviews 404 



National Association of Gardeners 407 



The Questionnaire 408 



Here and There 408 



Planting Evergreens — Late Root Action and Bud 



Formation — Propagating Retinosporas — By and 

 By — Under the Trees — Burbank's Neiv Miracles — 

 Shell Fire Increases Productivity. 



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