March, 1906 



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CONTENTS 



MARCH, 1906 



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Cover Design — Daffodils 



Herbert T. Angell 

 The Gardener's Reminder - - - 61 



The Romance of a Lost Orchid - 62 

 Leonard Barron 



Photographs by courtesy of A. Dimmock and H. Graves 



Spraying the Home Garden - - 64 

 E. Dwight Sanderson 



Photographs by the Author and C. M. Weed 



Fertilizing the Home Fruit Garden 

 5. W. Fletcher 



A Ten-Mlnutes-a-Day Garden 



/. M. Angell 



Photographs by the Author 



Potatoes in Eight Weeks 



Samuel Eraser 



Photographs by courtesy of the Cornell Expt. Station 



The Cheapest Kind of Hotbed - 76 

 Nathan R. Graves 



Photographs by the Author 



The Making of a Water Garden - 

 Henry S. Conard 



Photographs by Henry Troth and H. C. Tibbetts 



Earlier and Better Annual 

 Flowers - - Edward J. Canning 



Photographs by the Author 



House Plants from Seeds 



Hattie L. Knight 



Domesticating Fringed Gentians 

 and Cardinal Flowers 



A bbie S. Nicker son 



Gathering Nasturtium Pods for 

 Seeds or Pickling ----- 

 Caroline M. Brown 



A New Remedy for the Chicken 



Nuisance _----___ 



Wood-Ward 



The Disgraceful Annual Cleaning 



The Wild Lady's-slipper Tamed - 

 Florence Beckwith 



Fifty-two Lily Blooms from a Hope- 

 less Bulb - - - - H.H.H. 



The Investigators' Club - - - 



Get Penny Packets 



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How to u-et .tenny jackets of 



Seed ---'-_____ 



Louise Klein Miller 



Important Indoor Jobs - - - - 



Seven Delights of March - - - 



California Reminder - - - 



Ernest Braunton 



Rollers Made from Drain-pipe - 

 Frank E. Channon. 



A Device for Reaching over the 

 Border ---'.- — --- IIO 



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WILHELM MILLER, Editor 



Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company. Entered 

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 New York, N Y., under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. 



