THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



February, 1919 



Service that 

 Stops Waste- 



We are ready to serve 

 you, not only with choicest 

 seeds, bulbs, plants, etc., but 

 also with competent advice 

 how to get the most out of 

 them, in the way of crops 

 and pleasure. Do you know 

 that about one-fourth of the 

 tomatoes on plants spreading 

 on the ground go to waste? 

 We would not consider our 

 service to you complete, un- 

 less we also told you how to 

 avoid such waste. 



We provide such seeds 

 only as are of proven vitality. 

 By testing all our seeds 

 before you get them, we 

 prevent the waste of poor 

 "stands" in the row and 

 delayed crops. These are but 

 a few factors that count, in 



Beckert's Victory 

 Garden Service 



As conscientious seedsmen we 

 are just as interested in your com- 

 plete success in the garden as we 

 are in your order for seeds, etc. 

 Our customers (and may we not 

 consider you one?) have a standing 

 invitation to put their gardening 

 problems up to us. Special inquiry 

 sheets are provided to make it easy to get a dollar's worth of craftsman-like advice with 

 every dollar invested in merchandise. Thus do we hope to help our customers to make 

 the garden one hundred per cent efficient. 



Salads All Summer for 25 Cents 



Do you know the appetizing qualities of Cress mixed with Lettuce? What would 

 you give for a fine big dish of Butterhead Lettuce right now? Here is a combination 

 of kinds that delight salad lovers— and a child can grow them all. We will mail 6 large 

 packets, asjollows.for 25 cents postpaid: — 



Cress, Extra Curled. Lettuce, Allheart Butterhead. 



Endive, Moss Curled. Chinese Cabbage, Pe-Tsai. 



Lettuce, Black-Seeded Simpson. Swiss Chard or Spinach Beet. 



All of these, excepting Swiss Chard, may be eaten raw or cooked. Swiss Chard 

 provides a perpetual crop of greens. Each packet will sow a thirty foot row. 



A Really Helpful Catalogue FREE 



Its frankness will surprise you. While primarily designed to be a salesman, it 

 carries the "Service-Idea" on every page. It also serves by offering only those sorts 

 that have stood the test of "Survival of the Fittest." It gives no quarters to antiquated 

 sorts or sorts of limited usefulness. Whatever it offers is worthy a place in your 

 garden, and whatever it says, is so. You'll find it a trustworthy and 

 pleasing companion in your garden planning. Write for your free 

 copy, please, and mention Garden Magazine. 



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Garden Service Complete 

 101-103 Federal Street, (N.S.) 



Pittsburgh, Penna. 



THIS IS A PLANT OF BECKERT'S SPECIAL 

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 FREE CATALOGUE. Packet 10 cents. 



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Cover Design — My Garden of Delight 



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 Among Our Garden Neighbors 13 



Four Illustrations 



How to Make Plans for Later Plantings — The Mild Win- 

 ter— The Philosophy of Planting — The Open Column 



Contriving for Flowers in the Shade 



C. L. Metier 17 



Photographs by the author 



The World's Best for Our Own Gardens — I 



E. I. Farrington 18 

 Photographs by the author and H. R. Graves 



Planting by the Weather - - Bristow Adams 20 



Photographs by Arthur Eldredge, Nathan R. Graves 

 and H. E. Angell 



The Lime Loving Alpines - W. E. Davis, Jr. 21 



Photographs by the author 



Gardening Unashamed - - - - Frances Duncan 22 



Photographs from several sources 



Through the Garden Gate Louise B. Wilder 24 

 Preparedness With Hotbeds E. L. Kirkpatrick 25 



Photographs by the author 



The Smoke Problem ln Suburban Gardens 26 



Photographs by the Missouri Botanical Garden 



Selective Draft ln the Vegetable Garden 



S. F. Hamblin 27 

 Photograph by H. W. Porch 



The Fun of Working With Modern Tools 



A. Kruhm 28 



Photographs by the author 



Can I Use a Tractor? - - Frank E. Goodwin 29 



Photographs by C. J. Hibbard and the Avery Motor 

 Cultivator Company 



The Month's Reminder -------- 31 



Sketches by National War Garden Commission 



As Others See It ----------36 



Populus Maxlmowiczii - - - - - - - L. B. 38 



Photograph by J. Horace McFarland Co . 



Working a Garden for Profit - Anna Seibel 40 

 Round About the Home Plot ------ 42 



Round About the Home Plot (continued) - 44 

 Leonard Barron, Editor 



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