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- - Adolph Kruhm 

 De Witt C. Weld, Jr. 

 C. L. Meller 



Editorials — Illustrated with Life Zone map -- 



Everybody's Planting and Planning Problems 



Elizabeth L. Strang 



Plans by author; photographs by M. H. Northend 



Taking the Gamble from the Backyard 



How the "Ridge" Sprayed its Trees 



What Planting Does to Make a House a Home 



Photographs by the author and M. H. Northend 



The Bramble Berrles for Your Home Garden - /. R. Mattem 



"Hurry Up" Devices for the Gardener with no Greenhouse 



E. A. S. Peckham 



New Chinese Trees and Shrubs for the Pacific Slope 



E. H. Wilson 



Photographs by E. J. Wallis 



Pottery, Statuary and Garden Ornaments C. Courtenay Savage 



Photographs by N. R. Graves, J. C. Kraus and Nat'l Audubon Society 



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



Old Fashioned Flowers from Frost to Frost Gladys H. Sinclair 

 What I Want and What I Can Afford - - . - Fletcher Steele 



Comfrey, a Healing Herb - - - E. S. Johnson 



Success with January Sweet Peas in the South - Buford Rcid 

 Is the Beech Lightning Immune? ----- Elinor S. Brinton 

 Does Platycodon Really "Winter Kill" - - - E. S. Johnson 



Marigolds and Zinnias -- C. H. L. Gebferl 



PACE ~ PAGE 



The Ponderosa Lemon --------- Thomas J. Steed 209 



Pin Money Crops for the Home Gardener - - F. F. Rockwell 210 



Garden Source of Potash ------- James B. Morman 212 



Successful Management of the Small Farm - - Hollistcr Sage 2 14 



Blotch, a Dreaded Apple Disease ----- Harold Clarke 216 



Hardy Vines for All Purposes ------- C. L. Meller 218 



Green Background for Brilliant Blooms - - Helen M. Sharp e 222 

 Readers' Service ----.-----------224 



Gardening for Young Folks - ------ Ellen Eddy Shaw 226 



Drawings by Maud H. Purdy 



The Southerner's Reminder - - J. M. Patterson 228 



Ismene Calantha, a First Experience - - - - - S.J. Easlon 230 



A Bulb for Children's Use - E. S. Johnson 230 



Protecting Trees from Rabbits, etc. - - - - Harold Clarke 232 

 The Guava — a Substitute for Gooseberries in Florida 



E. P. Powell 234 



Work in the Small Greenhouse W. C. McCollom 236 



Making Hotbed Mats at Home --------- G. B. 237 



How to Successfully Graft the Crab Cactus - - Mary Nelms 238 



Club and Society News -------------- 240 



Outwitting the Pestiferous Fly ----------- 240 



The Udo -------------------- 242 



Photographs by U. S. Dept. Agriculture and A. G. Eldredge 



The Late W. Atlee Burpee (with portrait) 174 



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