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The Contents for March, 1922 



Things and Thoughts of the Garden 



Montague Free 73 



Hardy Iberis — Candytuft Richard Rothe 75 



My Indian Rose Garden George Cecil 76 



Irises Grace Siurlevant 77 



Cultural Suggestions for the Gladiolus 



A. E. KimderJ 78 



The Tropical Rain Forest . . Willard N. Clute 79 



The Progress of the Rose in America 



Edrvard A. White 80 



Late Rose Introductions 83 



Potash-Marl E. N. Cleveland 84 



The Dahlia Thomas Proctor 85 



Roses and the Rose Garden Arthur Smith 86 



Some of the Earlier Spring Wild Flowers .... 



Florum Amator 88 



Work for the Month in the Garden 



Samuel Gelding 89 



The Greenhouse, Month to Month 



IV. R. Forvkes 90 



Departments of Foreign Exchange and Book 

 Reviews 92 



National Association of Gardeners 93 



Local Societies 95 



Here and There 96 



Raspberries and Blackberries — Salute to the 

 Trees — Fine Limestone is the Best. 



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