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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



May, 1906 



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" THE GARDEN MAGAZINE " 



A striking evidence of the permanent value 

 and of the popularity of The Garden 

 Magazine is the demand for bound volumes 

 of it. This demand is greater than any 

 that we before have experienced. We 

 have been obliged to reprint the February 

 and April numbers, and by the time this 

 reaches our readers we expect to be able to 

 supply all the numbers of Volume i. 



The same interesting story is told by letters 

 like this from a subscriber in Haverford, 

 Pa. — and we are receiving many such: 



"In sending another subscription for a frierd, I want to 

 say that there is nothing printed that is so full of practical 

 help to those who want to enjoy the benefits of a good 

 garden. I would not take $50 for my April number, if. I 

 could not replace it with another copy." 



The June number will contain a notable 

 article on the glorious family of magnolia, 

 the most stately and beautiful of all the early 

 flowering trees. The proper tillage of the 

 orchard will be discussed in all its details. 

 The Eastern vegetable gardener will read 

 with interest about the difficulties and strange 

 problems that confront his brother in the 

 prairie states. There is yet time to plant 

 chrysanthemums for late flower, and two 

 important articles are devoted to the subject. 

 An entirely new scheme for making a garden 

 of grasses will be explained with superb 

 illustrations of the most suitable kinds for 

 use as garden plants. 



FARMING 



FOR MAY 



There is necessary work to be done on the 

 farm at this season of the year. The care of 

 the live stock, field and -orchard and the 

 other departments of farm activities are 

 carefully covered by men who are authorities 

 in their lines. 



The May number of Farming tells how 

 the farmer may produce pure milk, how 

 he may reduce the number of bacteria in a 

 teaspoonful from twenty million to less than 

 a hundred ; and how cleanliness enormously 

 increases profit. 



"Black Rock" the grand champion steer 

 at the International Live Stock Show, and 

 the great hornless beef-producing breed that 

 he is a representative of — the Aberdeen 

 Angus — are discussed — with a noble photo- 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with, delight. "—A ntony and Cleopatra 



graph; also what kind of stock to raise and 

 how to feed them. 



New inventions in farm implements, 

 harrow-carts, cultivator seeder, etc. 



The large profits in growing early to- 

 matoes, the kind to grow, and how to grow 

 them. 



A government warning against indiscrim- 

 inate inoculation of the soil. 



"The Woman's Workshop" shows her 

 how to make life easy in the kitchen, not by 

 the expenditure of a large amount of money, 

 but by a few labor-saving devices that will 

 make what is ordinarily drudgery almost a 

 pleasure. 



The usual departments are included: 

 Poultry and Pigeons — Wood Lot and For- 

 est — Dairy Notes — Bees — How to Keep 

 Well — Government Land — Farm Imple- 

 ments and Co-operation — Horse Flies and 

 How to Suppress Them. 



"COUNTRY LIFE IN AMERICA" FOR MAY 



is an issue of springtime fullness. It covers 

 the whole range of country life in spring. 

 Here are some of the articles: 



The Beautiful Garden at Bar Harbor, Maine, of De 

 Witt Clinton Blair, Esq. 



A Garden Made Perfect in its Second Season by Skillful 

 Planting. 



Shall We Plant Fruit Trees for Beauty? With five 

 superb full-page illustrations. An account of the character 

 and effect of fruit blossoms and the true value of fruit trees 

 for ornamental purposes. 



Love and War Among the Blue Birds, by John Bur- 

 roughs. A charming account of a double mating and a 

 double duel. 



The Songs of Nature. With two magnificent full-page 

 illustrations from photographs by Henry Troth. Five 

 more of Henry Van Dyke's selection of the sixty best nature 

 poems ever written. 



What it Costs To Run an Automobile. The testimony 

 of two owners. Expert information of great practical 

 value, with itemized expense sheets. 



Buying a Horse. 



Wild Foods of the United States in May, by H. H. Rusby. 



Things Worth Knowing About Oriental Rugs, by George 

 Leland Hunter. 



A Bird Garden, by Frank M. Chapman, photo- 

 graphs by the author. How food, drink, and a nest site 

 may be provided. How to attract and hold the birds. 



Raising Thoroughbred Poultry as a Business, by H. H. 

 Fike. 



"THE world's WORK" FOR MAY 

 tells the extraordinary story of the way in 

 which diseased meat is sold from the Chicago 

 packing houses — a menace to the health of 



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the whole people. There are three articles — 

 one by Dr. Jaques, formerly in charge of the 

 local inspection, who shows that the local 

 inspection is ineffective; another by T. H. 

 McKee, a New York lawyer, whom the mag- 

 azine sent out to investigate the subject, and 

 who shows that the Federal law does not 

 cover the meats and meat products used in 

 the United States — that the federal law is,- 

 in fact, used by some of the packers as a de- 

 ceptive advertisement; and the third article 

 by Dr. Hedger who practises medicine in 

 Packingtown and shows the unhealthful 

 conditions of living there. All these articles 

 are published to point a way to a remedy for 

 this national scandal and danger to health. 

 The remedy is plain, and sorely needed. 



Mrs. Fraser has written from Japan an ac- 

 count of the private life of the emperor — 

 the first time that a study of this remarkable 

 man has been published in the outside world. 

 She makes clear the relations of this ruler to 

 his people as never done before. 



BOOKS FOR THE GARDEN 



The enlarged edition of the "New Cyclo- 

 pedia of Horticulture, " edited by Professor 

 Liberty H. Bailey, in six large quarto vol- 

 umes, containing 2,100 pages, 4,357 articles 

 by 450 expert writers, 2,800 illustrations, 

 besides 146 beautiful full-page plates, is an 

 inexhaustible mine of practical information. 

 Every man and woman who wishes really to 

 know outdoor life must use it. Ask for the 

 offer that we make of it. 



"How to Make a Fruit Garden" is for 

 those who wish to grow quality fruits in the 

 home garden, rather than the kinds which 

 they can procure in the ordinary markets. 

 There has been nothing of the sort available 

 until Professor S. W. Fletcher's volume gave 

 just the information necessary. His vast 

 experience as a practical horticulturalist 

 in both Eastern and Western states has 

 peculiarly fitted him for the task. It is a 

 beautiful book, too, full of striking illustra- 

 tions; not merely of portraits of varieties of 

 trees, but portraying in a vast, comprehen- 

 sive manner those little practical details of 

 manipulation which the professional fruit- 

 culturist always seems to assume that every- 

 body knows by instinct. Ready in May. 

 (About 200 photographs — $2.00 net.) 



