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Things and Thoughts of ihe Garden 



Montague Free 457 



How to Make a Vegetable Garden and Main- 

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Silene (Catchfly) Richard Rothe 461 



Work for the Month in the Garden 



Samuel Colding 462 



Walks and Talks Among the Spring Flowers . . 



Florum Amator 463 



The Master of "The Moorings" 464 



Essentials to Success with Wild Gardens 



Herbert Durand 465 



Peach Trees on Walls in Massachusetts 1 28 



^'ears Old 466 



New \ ork Spring Flower Show 466 



Plant Travelers Willard N. Clute 467 



February Birds Paul B. Riis 468 



The Greenhouse, Month to Month 



W. R. Forvkei 469 



Consider the Gardener. . .Ellen P. Cunningham 470 



Hardy Cjclamens 471 



A Lesson on Plant Physiology and the Plant in 



Relation to Its Environment. .Arthur Smith 472 



Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book 



Reviews 475 



National Association of Gardeners 478 



The Questionnaire 479 



Here and There 479 



.Slirubs Under Trees — Color in Ihe Garden in ll'inler 

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