November, 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



101 







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Cover Design — "The Last Call" Frank Spradling 



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Flowers and Shell Shock ------- 10 $ 



Organization and Publicity -------103 



Prodigious Totals ---------- 103 



The Unseated Greenhouse -------103 



Among Our Garden Neighbors ------ 104 



Four Illustrations 



Cotoneaster multiflora calocarpa — Tree- Vaccination 

 Worthless — Storming the Iris Foe's Trenches — Hand- 

 ling Gladiolus Bulbs — An Emergency Garden — "Speak 

 ing of Raspberries" — Getting Rid of Mice — A Green- 

 house Without Fuel — Another Successful Vegetable 

 Garden — Fothergilla — Oxytropis 



Flower Holders and Flower Arrangement 



Robert Kift 106 

 Photographs by the author and Rookwood Potteries 



While We Prune the Orchard - Edith M. Patch 108 



Photographs by the author 



The Garden in the South - /. 21. Patterson no 



Your Greenhouse with the 50% Coal Allow- 

 ance -------------hi 



Sketches by Frank Spradling 



Remaking the Gardens of France - - - - 112 



Photographs by the American Fund for French Wound- 

 ed (central photograph by the American Committee 

 tor Devastated France) 



"Ready for Next Year" --------114 



Photographs page 114 by Paul Thompson, page ns by 

 Minneapolis Journal, Paul Thompson and the Depart- 

 ment of Parks, New York City. 



Pictorial Lessons tn Pruning - - T. Sheward 116 



Sketch by the author 



The Month's Reminder "Clean Up and Clear 



Up." --------- M. G. Kains 117 



The Garden "Movies" No. ii ----- - 119 



Photographs by W. C. McCollom 



Uncle Sam's Gardening - - Frances Duncan 120 



"Gassed?" No Not If You Help - - - - 121 



Potato Bugs and Airplanes - 121 



"Greenside" of Tomatoes ------- 121 



Comparison of Tomatoes -121 



Winter Quarters for the Tender Plants - - 1 23 



Why Electric Heat Will Fail 



Arthur McCausland 123 



The Rose Bug - - O.U. Swift 123 



Salmagundi ------- Kate Burton 124 



Geraniums in Winter - - Samuel H. Garekol 124 



Leonard Barron, Editor 



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