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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



December. 1905 



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Occupation 



Leucothoe is an arching spray of dark- 

 green, glossy, pinnate foliage. Nothing like 

 it in the world. 



Those three-foot brushes of long-needled 

 pines make our northern pines look sick. 



Southern smilax is the most graceful and 

 longest-keeping green vine for Christmas 

 decoration. 



Palmetto crowns and leaves bring the 

 tropics into your home, and will be welcome 

 for two months. 



You can get samples of most of these early 

 by mail. Later, if your local florist does not 

 have them, you can get them by express. 



UNUSUAL "BOUGHT" GIFTS 



Has your wife enough vases for cut flowers ? 



What about a sun dial for the garden ? 



Buy a book that will help someone make a 

 better garden. 



Give someone who really needs it a year's 

 subscription to The Garden Magazine 

 and Country Life in America. 



Buy your plants and flowers from the 

 florist a week before the rush. He will 

 deliver them on time, and you will get the 

 best. 



INTIMATE CHRISTMAS GIFTS 



If you want to give a garden-loving friend 

 something which could not possibly be for 

 anyone else, or from anyone else, send one 

 package of your choicest home-saved seed, 

 with full directions for cultivation. 



Choose the six best recipes for cooking 

 vegetables or preserving fruits that have been 

 in your family for generations, make a 

 booklet of them, and send them to the person 

 who would appreciate them the most. 



Better than florists' flowers or bought gifts 

 are home-grown flowers. The three easiest 

 and quickest things to grow for this purpose 

 are Chinese sacred lilies in bowls, Roman 

 hyacinths in brown earthenware pans of sand 

 and water, and Dutch hyacinths in tall 

 glasses. 



The first two will bloom in forty days from 

 planting, but it is worth while to order the 

 bulbs of all three as late as the last week in 

 November, for even if the plants are not in 

 flower at Christmas time, so much the better. 

 Your friend will then get two pleasures 

 instead of one — anticipation as well as reali- 

 zation. 



HINT TO A FOND PARENT 



Write a letter like this: 



Dear Jenny: You've been pretty good this year, so I 

 guess you might as well have that little greenhouse, only I 

 wouldn't let it cost more than a thousand. Merry Christmas 

 from your Father. 



"LEST WE FORGET" 



When planning your Christmas expendi- 

 tures, save a dollar to spend on December 

 26th. Take advantage of the big slump in 

 prices to buy some left-over flowers for left- 

 over people. Inquire for the people who got 

 nothing at Christmas, the invalids and the 

 failures. 



ON CHRISTMAS DAY 



Make a feeding place for the birds where 

 you can watch them all the rest of the winter. 

 They eat garden insects and weed seeds. 

 Besides, it's fun. 



