Coyer Design — Clematis tangutica (see page 208) 



The Month's Reminder -----------185 



Photographs by I. M. Angell and others 



Adventures of a Novelty Hunter - Adolph Kruhm 186 



Photographs by the author and others 



Some Notable New House Ferns ------- 189 



Photographs by J. H. Pepper 



Making a Plan for a Vegetable Garden A.E.Wilkinson 190 



Photographs and Plans by the author 



Good Currants and Gooseberries for Your 

 Home Garden -------- J. R. Mattern 192 



Photographs by N. R. Graves and A. G. Eldredge 



Making out the Flower Seed Order - F. F. Rockwell 194 



Photographs by A. E. Wilkinson and N. R. Graves 



Growing Fruit Trees in Pots - - W. C. McCollom 196 



Photographs by the author, T. S. Clarke and others 



Roberta of Roseberry Gardens - Frances Duncan 198 



Illustrated by Jack Manley Rose 



The Shot Hole Borer --------- H. C. 200 



Another Method of Indexlng - - - - L. A. Fox 200 



For Killing the Rose Chafer - Benjamin C. Auten 200 



A Permanent Bulb Planting - - - - E. S. Johnson 200 



Root Pruning --------- W. R. Gilbert 200 



W. S. Kimball 



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Autumn "Crocuses" ------- Annie L. Jack 



Photograph by the author 



Apples in Sandy Soil - - - - - - - - P. T. B. 



The New Steubenrauch Peaches - Walter A . Dyer 

 Is it Better Than a Hoe? - - Mrs. B. R. Putnam 



Increasing the Yield of Potatoes James B. Morman 

 Raspberries and Peaches ----- Rose Williams 



Photographs by the author 



Hollyhock Disease - - - - - F. D. Somers 



Gardening for Young Folks - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 



Photographs by Charles H. Baker 



Fruit Trees for Growing in Pots ------- 204 



What Apples Shall I Grow? - - - - - E. L. D. S. 204 



Winter Duties Continue in the South /. M. Patterson 204 



A New Yellow Clematis - --__'____ 208 



Readers' Service ------------- 2 io 



Club and Society News -----------212 



Suggestions for the Home Table Effie M. Robinson 214 

 The Mulberry as a Garden Fruit in Florida 



E. P. Powell 216 



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