February, 1906 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Early Crops Mean Big Prices 



Hardy 



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The Garden Magazine 



FEBRUARY, 1906 



CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Cover Design — Cattleya Hardyana 



Clement Moore 



The Gardener's Reminder - 



A Pictorial Diary of a Beginner's 

 Garden - - - M. T. R 



Photographs by the Author 



Orchard Fruits ln a Rented Gar- 

 den - - William C. McCollom 



Photographs by the Author and by E. M. Boult 



Two Ingenious Window Gardens - 

 i". E. R. Johnson 

 II. E. A. Eames 



Photographs by the Authors 



March Flowers Without a Green- 

 house ------ 



/. Laura French Mordaunt 

 II. Gertrude L. Whitlock 



Photographs by the Authors 



Little-Known Vegetables Worth 

 Growing - - - /. M. Angell 



Photographs by the Author 



The Building of a Hotbed 



E. L. Fullerton 



Photographs by H. B. Fullerton 



Home-Made Straw Mats for the 

 Hotbeds - - N. W. Robinson 



Photographs by the Author 



Rock-Loving Ferns in the Garden 

 G. A. Woolson 



Photographs by H. H. Swift and others 



The Child's Garden - 



Walter R. Beavis 



Photographs by the Author 



Lilies the World Really Needs - 

 Wilhelm Miller 



Photographs by the Vermont Experiment 

 Station and U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



Apple-Tree Pests 



Photograph by the Author 



How I Became An Orchid Grower 

 Clement Moore 



Photograph by the Author 



WILHELM MILLER, Editor 



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An Eight-by-Thirty Vegetable 

 Garden - A. Mason 32 



Photographs by the Author 



The Strip Between Fence and Side- 

 walk - - H. R. Mosnat 34 



Photograph by the Author 



E. P. Felt 36 



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