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The Contents for November, 1921 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



Montague Free 761 



Providing the Plants with Winter Overcoats. . . 



Floruiu Amalor 763 



Veronica — Speedwell . . . ^ . . . . Richard Rothe 764 



The Royal Chysanthemum 



Bertha Berber t-Hawnond 765 



The Topiary Art 765 



Pruning Evergreens 766 



Tropical Ferns Ralph C. Benedict 767 



Length of Life in Plants Willard N. Clute 770 



November Birds Paul B. Riis 771 



Tree Lore 771 



The Greenhouse, Month to Month 



IV. R. Forvkes 773 



Work for the Month in the Garden 



Samuel Colding 



Review of French Roses. . .Samuel S. Pennocl( 



Beware of the Beautiful Native 



Training Gardeners in the Public Schools 



Otis M. Eastman 



What Constitutes a Fruit? 



War Against Billboards 



A Lesson on Winter Protection for Hardy 

 Plants Arthur Smith 



Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book 

 Reviews 



National Association of Gardeners 



Local Societies 



Here and There 



Restoring the Garden zvith Annuals — Winter 

 l!'i)idozi' Boxes — Thorburn Sale 



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