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The Contents for Deceir.ber, 1921 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



Montague Free 793 



Dogwood Trees and Shrubs . Arhonvn Anuilor 795 



Arenaria — Sandwort Richard Rotlie 796 



The Christmas Rose . ficr//ia Berheri-Ham'iwnd 797 



How to Vary Our Floral Species 797 



Modern Dahlias W. H. Waile 799 



Epiphytes, Parasites and Saprophytes 



Wdlard N. Clute 801 



December Birds Paul B. Rih 803 



Gardening as a Hobby 804 



Work for the Month in the Garden 



Samuel Colding 805 



The Greenhouse, Month to Month 



IT. R. Fon>kes 806 



Birds Check Rodent and Insect Plague . 



Introducing Our Department on Garden Clubs. 



Bertha S. Harry 



A Lesson on the Window Garden in Winter . . 



Arthur Smith 



Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book 

 Reviews 



National Association of Gardeners 



Local Societies 



Here and There 



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 809 



811 

 813 

 814 

 814 



Sulphur as a Gnmniig Agent — Tlie Ccriman — 

 ll'hife Ants ill Greenhouses — The Cynibidiuiiis 

 — .Vtnsturtiunis in the Vegetable Garden — 

 Growing Perennial Phlo.r. 



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