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KEEP A FILE OF THIS MAGAZINE 
Our readers may have noticed that under the 
head of The Month’s Reminder, we frequently 
refer to instructions and suggestions given in 
back numbers of thismagazine. Thisisdone, not 
for the purpose of selling back numbers and 
bound volumes, of which we have only a very 
few files, but to obviate the difficulty of repeating 
suggestions and advice which has been printed 
again and again. Our new readers are apt 
to demand that we give, in every spring and 
fall season, help which is valuable at such 
times, and we feel that our old readers must 
be worried to have us repeat with so little 
change the story which we have told so often 
before. If our readers can be induced to keep 
their numbers, the paragraphs we point out 
and enumerate will be as valuable one year 
as another, although we are all apt to forget 
from season to season. 
The magazine can be bound by your local 
stationer, or we will bind any volume you 
return to us for seventy-five cents, express 
charges to be borne by the customer. If 
desired, we can furnish cases for your local 
binders for sixty-two cents, postpaid. 
PREMIUMS FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS 
During the course of a year our friends give 
away many subscriptions to this magazine. 
We believe there is no more acceptable gift 
than such a practical publication, and we want 
to make this subscription-giving exceptionally 
popular now. 
So we are 
offering some 
attractive re- 
wards to 
“‘club-rais- 
ers,” as we 
call thosewho 
send us two 
or three sub- 
scriptions at 
once. For in- 
stance ,fortwo 
yearly sub- 
scriptions to 
THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE- 
FARMING, we 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
‘°To business that we love we rise betime 
And go to’t with delight.”—Aztony and Cleopatra 
will send the Lenni Lenape Roses, good stock, 
different colors, Baby Rambler, White Soupert, 
Etoile de France, La Tosca and Wellesley. 
The plants will be shipped in season with all 
charges prepaid. Your own renewal will count 
as one subscription, of course, and you simply 
remit $z for each. 
For three yearly subscriptions at $1 each 
we will ship you, express collect, the adjustable 
garden cultivator, one of the most useful hand 
garden tools on the market. It will pull out 
the weeds and pulverize the ground thoroughly, 
leaving it level. It will 
work between the rows, 
or the centre shovel can 
be removed to straddle the 
rows if desired. It is the 
lightest, weighing but three 
pounds complete with a 
= long handle, and the 
strongest, as the blades are forged out of a 
solid steel rod. 
Another reward for three yearly subscriptions 
at $1 each is a copy of “Roses and How to 
Grow Them,” a splendidly helpful handbook, 
written by various experts. It is well illus- 
trated and bound for service. We have sold a 
great many of these books and believe you 
would find it as valuable as it is interesting. 
You can get twenty-five gladioli seedlings, 
the famous Gold Medal and Silver Trophy 
blends, in all 
colors, in- 
cluding the 
rare blues, 
for only two 
subscriptions, 
at $x each, 
and,ofcourse, 
one may be 
your own 
renewal. Vast 
pleasure is to 
be had from 
growing these 
seedlings, 
which come 
PROM eet hive 
famous Cowee Farm. 
We have had a great many orders for our 
new flower basket, which is modeled on the 
May, 1908 
THE: TALK: OF: THE - OFFICE: 
English basket, but better fitted for the needs 
of the American lover of the garden. The 
basket contains scissors, trowel, pruning knife, 
hammer, box of tacks, and ball of twine, and 
will be sent prepaid for eight subscriptions 
to THE GARDEN MaGAZINE-FARMING at $1 
each. 
BACK NUMBERS NEEDED 
We need the following back numbers of 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE-FARMING and will 
gladly pay for them. For each copy received 
‘in perfect condition, with cover intact, we will 
extend your subscription two months: 
1905—June and August. 
1906— October. 
1907—October and November. 
1908— January. 
When you ship the magazines be sure to put 
your name on the package, and send us a 
postal telling us what you are forwarding. 
A NEW BOOK BY MAURICE HEWLETT 
“The Spanish Jade” is a new book by 
Maurice Hewlett, which we have the pleasure 
of publishing this month. It is a finished and 
careful piece of literary workmanship, and also 
an entrancing story that strikes the keynote of 
Spanish character, and illuminates much that 
has been obscure to the Anglo-Saxon mind con- 
cerning the Spaniard’s processes of thought. 
The book has been decorated and illustrated 
by Mr. W. Hyde, whose work adds color to 
the author’s vivid descriptions. 
