January, 1916 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



219 



FOR THAT GARDEN 



YOU'RE PLANNING 



See Your Garden While Planning It With 



The Garden Bluebook 



By Leicester B. Holland 



This is the one complete. book of reference containing all the practical, needed information about the two 

 hundred hardy perennials. Its remarkable color chart shows at a glance the height, the time of blooming, 

 the color of bloom, preference for sun or shade, wet or dry soil, fragrance, cutting qualities — in a word, the 

 whole story of all the dependable perennials. In addition to this chart there is a page given to each 

 perennial, on which there is a photographic reproduction of the plant together with description, cultural 

 directions and enemies, all carefully enumerated. 200 Illustrations and Color Chart. Net, #3.50. 



THE COLOR CHART FROM "THE GARDEN BLUEBOOK" AND HOW TO USE IT 



LATIN NAMES 



*t. tfAlthaa rosea. 



Bocconla cordate. 



Helianthus rigidus, var. Miss Mellish. 



Hibiscus, var. Meehan's Mallow Marvels. 



COMMON NAMES 



COLOR AND PERIOD OF BLOOM W H» g 



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APR. MAY JUNE JULY AUG. SEPT. OCT. W X « U. 5 O a 



HEIGHT IN FEET 



3 4-567 



Hollyhock. - 



Plume Poppy. — 

 Hardy Sunflower.- 

 Swamp-rose. 



tfLflium Henryi. 

 Lathyrus latif olius . var. albus. 

 Lathyrus latiiolius, var. splendens. 

 fAstube Davidii. 

 Boltonia latisquaina, 



Henry's Lily. • 



White Everlasting Pea. 



Everlasting Pea. 



False Goat's-beard. 



False Chamomile. 



In "The Garden Blue- 

 book" this chart is 24 

 inches long and is 

 printed in four colors. 

 The centre panel shows 

 against a background of 

 green the natural colors 

 of 167 perennials. 



" Suppose your garden should require a plant of medium height blooming late in July and blue in color. The column headed JULY will give us all the 



plants blooming in that month; that section of it between four and two feet high will include all those of medium height. Having found our plant, we 



move to the right and here we will find indicated by the presence or absence of a black spot whether our plant will grow well in sun, partial shade, or 



shade, or in two or more such situations; and whether it is fragrant or not, 



" Some plants are so constituted that they will thrive in sand and drought and others do not mind how wet their roots may be. These are marked under 



the headings DRY and WET. Lastly, we have a column indicating which of our plants are suitable also for the rock garden. 



" When all this is done and we know that we have something that fits all our requirements we look to the left, and there we find the names of this something." 



OTHER GARDEN BOOKS 



The American Flower Garden What England Can Teach Us About Gardening 



By NELTJE BLANCHAN 



The book covers adequately the needs of the amateur whose. 



garden is either extensive or the reverse; and. every fact among 



the thousands is made quickly available by a fourteen-page index. 



With Planting Lists by Leonard Barron 



Many illustrations: Net, $1.50 



THE "HOW 

 How to Make a Vegetable Garden How to Make a 



By EDITH L. FULLERTON 



The only adequate book on the home vegetable 

 garden. For every one who has a garden large 

 or small. 

 250 photographs by H. B. Fullerton. Net, $2.00 



By WILHELM MILLER, Ph. D. 

 Dr. Miller went abroad with the object of studying the English 

 gardens, the most beautiful things of their kind in the world, 

 and in this volume he has embodied those principles and sugges- 

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 Eight Plates in color and many in black and white. Net, $4.00 



TO" SERIES 



Flower Garden How to Make a Fruit Garden 



By S. W. FLETCHER 



"Remarkably satisfactory guide book to the making 

 of a fruit garden."- — Baltimore Sun. 



Many illustrations. Net, $2.00 



A Symposium of Many Experts 



A charming and practical book by experts on every 

 branch of the subject especially designed for 

 amateur gardeners. 

 More than 200 beautiful photographs. Net, $1.60 



The Tree Book 



An accurate and exhaustive manual which enables 

 a novice to identify the trees and also covers the 

 vast subject of the uses of trees and how to grow 

 and care for them. 17 color plates and 350 half- 

 tone illustrations. 



Net $4.00 



GUIDES TO TREES, PLANTS AND FLOWERS- 



By Julia Ellen Rogers The MushrOOul Book By Nina Marshall 



Nature's Garden 



An invaluable aid to all who are interested in fungi 

 as food or as a limitless subject of study. The author 

 has had the assistance of several specialists, and the 

 book is accurate in every detail. The illustrations — 

 41 color plates and 40 black-and-white — are from 

 the famous photographs by Mr. and Miss Anderson 

 Net $3.00 



By Neltje Blanchan 



A most interestingand beautiful book. Enables any 

 one without botanical knowledge to identify all of 

 our common wild flowers, introduces the reader to 

 their marvelous life-histories and tells the part which 

 insects play in these. Illustrations: 56 color plates 

 and 48 black-and-white, all from photographs of 

 actual flowers. Net $ 1.00 



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GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 



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