FEBRUARY, 1916 THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 11 
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Partial List of Contents For March 
Flowering Cherries and Crabapples The Second of Mr. Adolph Kruhm’s Series on 
By ‘“‘Chinese Wilson” Better Vegetables 
\ Everyone who takes the slightest interest in horticulture Next month he takes up lettuces. The article ought to 
must know something of the far-reaching results of E. H. appeal especially to any one who has tried to make a 
\ Wilson’s travels in China, and how the number of trees selection from the 400 odd varieties listed in the seed 
and shrubs in the temperate portion of North America catalogues, all of which, according to those same cata- 
was doubled by the new species which he introduced. logues are “‘superb,” “early,” and possessed of all the 
In this article he tells for the first time about the cherries good qualities, but which in many cases seem to be very 
that he found there. much alike to the grower. Mr. Kruhm gives two tables 
5 mane ‘ of the best kinds to grow, according to the end in view, 
Easy Gardening in Difficult Places together with a tee table ‘alae when to plant for 
By Stephen Hamblin definite crops. 
This is the first of a series in which Mr. Hamblin comes to Raising Flowers for Roadside Sale—By F. F. Rockwell 
the rescue of those who get no benefit from the advice eae a : 
aimed at the average gardener, for the reason that their It isn’t so easy to make money by raising flowers, but if 
gardens have not the average soil. This article is addressed you have ingenuity and persistence you can do it. Here 
to those who try to get results in sand, and contains a sur- pone WAY! 
prisingly extensive list of plants that flourish in sandy Planting Tables 
soils. Most old subscribers can tell of the tremendous useful- 
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Budding and Grafting sue. This year they are revised in the light of a thor- 
ough and painstaking test conducted for eight years. 
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Many gardeners are only beginning to realize the re- 
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