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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1906 



The Garden Magazine in 1906 



/^AN you afford to live another year without 

 The Garden Magazine? With it are you 

 not bound to have a better garden in spite of your- 

 self? It may save you on vegetables alone ten times 

 the price of a year's subscription. 



During 1906 it will be even better than it has 

 been in the past. It is to be enlarged and improved. 

 The illustrations will be more profuse and interest- 

 ing than they have been, for we have added another 

 well-known nature photographer, which gives us 

 unequalled facilities for picture getting. 



SOME OF THE FEATURES OF 1906 



QUALITY VEGETABLES FOR THE HOME TABLE 



A series of twelve articles written by two connoisseurs — the man who 

 grows the vegetables and the wife who cooks them. 



Any beginner can have better vegetables than the grocer, because home- 

 grown vegetables are fresher; but there is only one way in which you can 

 know the varieties that stand for quality, viz. , by reading these articles written 

 by people who have tasted leathery lettuce, stringy beans, hollow-hearted 

 celery, insipid peas, corn that fills your teeth with hulls, and other pious 

 frauds among the much advertised "novelties." 



These writers tell the best-flavored kinds, and how to prepare them in 

 such appetizing forms that your guests will sing the praises of your garden 

 and of your cooking. 



QUALITY FRUITS FOR THE HOME GARDEN 



Will be another strong series of twelve articles. Professor S. W. Fletcher 

 will continue to write those lively, sensible and informing articles that have 

 excited so much favorable comment. Heretofore, fruit books and articles have 

 been written for the commercial grower, and contained tons of dry matter of 

 no use to the amateur, who wants a few fruit trees and some berries for home 



use and doesn't care particularly for "Dead Sea Fruit" — fair apples, like Ben 

 Davis, with ashes inside, or Kieffer pears, with hearts of wood and stone. 



THE MAKING OF A LAWN 



The most elaborate series of articles, with the most surprisingly beautiful 

 and practical pictures, ever published on this subject. 



INSPIRING ARTICLES ABOUT FLOWERS 



We are pleased to announce two new series as follows — 

 WATER-LILIES AND WATER GARDENS 



A comprehensive series by an expert on the botany and culture of water- 

 lilies, who has the gift (rare among experts) of writing so that people can 

 understand and appreciate. 



WINDOW GARDENING AND HOUSE PLANTS 



A series of articles that will throw into the shade anything of the kind yet 

 written. Illustrated with all sorts of ingenious little home-made, labor-saving 

 devices, and series of pictures showing just how to pot a plant, make a cutting, 

 kill the destroying insects, etc. 



The twenty-five special departments of the magazine, which have been of such interest in 

 the past, will be continued during the comingyear. The enlargement of the magazine will 

 enable the appearing of more of these each month than heretofore. A partial list of these 

 departments is as follows: 



The Gardener's Reminder 



The Vegetable Garden 



The Lawn 



Trees and Shrubs 



The Small Greenhouse 



Roses 



Spraying 



Garden Insects 



The Bulb Department 



The Fruit Garden 



Vines and Trailers 

 The Water Garden 

 Coldframes and Hotbeds 

 The Window Garden 

 The Backyard Garden 

 The Hardy Border 

 California Department 

 Southern Department 

 Annual Flowers 

 Fertilizers 



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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 133 East i6th Street, New York. 



Enclosed find Si .00 for a year's subscription to The Garden Magazine. Commence 

 with the February issue (which is Number one of Volume 3.) 



G. M.,Jan. lOric. 



The two great Spring and Fall Planting Numbers, two of the most important 

 garden publications of 1906, are sold on the newsstands for 25 cents each. These 

 and probably a third double 25-cent number are included in a year's subscription 

 without extra charge. Thus, for one dollar regular subscribers secure twelve 

 copies that would cost $1.50 (or $1.65) if they were purchased separately. 



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