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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
‘To business that we love we rise betime 
And go to’t with delight.”—A tony and Cleopatra 
Marcu, 1908 
TALK: OF-THE - OFFICE: | 
Spring in the Garden 
Spring is in sight, and Country Life in 
America and The Garden Magazine—Farming 
propose to celebrate it in a cheerful, joyous, and 
practical way. 
The Garden Manual of Country Lije in 
America will be the usual double March issue, 
a really splendid and adequate treatment of all 
the things one needs to know about the garden. 
It should be bought, preserved and used 
through the whole year. Here is a list of a 
small part of the contents: 
Art Versus Artifice in Landscape Architecture. 
Landscape Gardening in a City Yard. 
Blending the House and the Landscape. 
Hardy Roses from May till November. 
The Show Garden of the South. 
Shrubs That Will Bloom This Year. 
A Thousand DollarsanAcre from Pedigree Fruit Trees. 
A Cornish Garden. 
Annual Flowers for Every Place and Purpose. 
‘Three Successful Vegetable Gardens. 
‘The Country Calendar. 
The price of the magazine is 50 cents for 
this double number. If you are now a sub- 
scriber to The Garden Magazine—Farming, you 
can join the Five Dollar Bill Club by sending 
a check for $5.00 which will pay for a full year’s 
subscription to Country Lije in America and 
The World’s Work, and extend your present sub- 
scription to The Garden Magazine—Farming for 
one year. 
THE SPRING ISSUE OF THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE—FARMING 
The April issue of this magazine will be the 
Double Spring Planting Issue. Here are some 
of the chief contents. 
Garden Tools and Their Proper Uses. 
What Must Be Planted in Spring —not Autumn. 
The Best Way to Select Perennial Flowers. 
Plan for a Hardy Border. 
Women’s Dress for Gardening. 
How to Make New Fruits. 
Really Good Beans. 
The Types of the American Elm. 
The price is 25 cents, but a year’s subscripticn 
includes both the spring and fall double num- 
bers. 
THE NEW FLOWER BASKET 
We have completed plans for a new, and 
much cheaper, Flower Basket than we have 
been able to get before. These are modeled 
on the English basket, and are fitted better 
for the needs of the American lover of the 
including scissors, trowel, pruning knife, box 
of tacks, and ball of twine, and a year’s sub- 
scription to The Garden Magazine—Farming for 
$3.00, or with a year’s subscription to Country 
Lije in America, including all double numbers, 
for $5.00. 
THE COMPLETE NATURE LIBRARY 
It is a long story to tell, but we think that 
every subscriber to our out-of-door magazines 
will be interested in it. You have perhaps 
heard very often of the Nature Library, which, 
after ten years’ work, is now complete. We 
should be glad to send you particulars about 
it which will interest you if you will fill out this 
blank 
Doubleday, Page & Company, 
133 East 16th Street, 
New York City. 
Please send me particulars about 
the complete Nature Library. 
