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- - Jane Donald 
5 PAGE 
Tue ‘‘ScIENCE” OF GROWING ASTERS Caroline H. Stoot MaAnurE—AN EXPERIMENT WITH AND WitHout W. C. McCollom 
WINTER NATURE STUDY - - - - - - - - - E. E. Shaw Photograph by the author 
EnmoRnrS ¢ = = + <.+¢ 2s 52656464 Ses 2 Pope ee A Home ene SEE ANTING DIBBLE - - - Jarvis Runkel 
+ REO ANNGAUSHE Een =) = = cin fold Drawing by the author 
es Oey cae ty NEES OG: Lawson Melish GARDENING FOR YOUNG Forks - - - - -_ Ellen Eddy Shaw 
JAPANESE CHERRIES AND AsIATIC CRABAPPLES - - E. H. Wilson Pag nonontee be yee Dusmore, Ni R. Graves and H. Troth 
Photographs by E. J. Wallis, N. R. Graves, Mason Good and others Wauat To Do witH AN ALKALI SomL- - - - - - C. S. Meller 
Waicu Lettuce AND WHY - - - - - - - - Adolph Kruhm LimE-SULPHUR; CONCENTRATED OR SELF-BOILED? J. R. Mattern 
Photographs by the author IDR VE SPRAY SBINGEDED MONE GARDEN ee a ea a Jin Be 
Maxkinc THE Best oF It - - Stephen F. Hamblin Photographs: by the author 
I. A Garden in Pure Sand PREPARING THE SOIL TW leo Es J. M. Patterson 
Photographs by Arthur G. Eldredge Wuy THE CLematTiIs Dirs SUDDENLY Harold Clarke 
Maxtxc Over Orp or Poor TreEs- - S. O. Q. and J. R. Mattern SOME SPENCERS SUPREME - - - - Buford Reid 
Photographs by E. R. Rollins, C. Jones and others : Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
PLANNING THE VEGETABLE GARDEN FOR Maximum RETURNS FROM STARTING SEEDS INDOORS - - - = - Will A. Crandall 
Mixnorum SPACE - = - = - - = = - - - M.G. Kains Roses NEED Lime - - - - - = % Harold Clarke 
Photographs by the author : READERS’ SERVICE hee eee See eee ee eas OS, 
Testep PLANTING TABLE FOR THE VEGETABLE ea atthe Earty STARTED CUCUMBERS - Ethel A. S. Peckham 
& rentliss aawin 
Prx-Money Crops FOR THE HoME GARDENER - FF. F. Rockwell Hoe pape ee pees HAO: Orbea 
III. Tickling Profits with Cut Flowers. TYPES OF THE BLACK WALNUT Archibald Rutledge 
Photograph by Leonard Barron CLuB AND SocreTy NEWS - - - - - 
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SHELTERS FOR TENDER SEEDLINGS - - - - - - - H.W. F. 
Drawing by the author ; 
PLANTS FOR A PINK AND WHITE CoMBINATION Mary T. Richardson 
Earty PEAS THAT SATISFY - - - - - - - 
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SHRUB COMBINATIONS THAT GO WELL Erle Ogden Blair 
STORAX, A SPRING BEAUTY - = - - - A. Van Gelder 
Photograph by the author ; 
Earty AND LONG FLOWERING ARABIS Katherine K. Perrigo 
PLatycopon ‘‘WINTER KitrmInc” - - - - - Walter P. Eaton Photograph by the author 
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