March, 1909 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 





THE AMERICAN FLOWER GARDEN NEARLY 

 READY 



After several years of preparation, "The 

 American Flower Garden," by Neltje Blanchan, 

 is nearly ready, and will be published about 

 March 15 th. 



This sumptuous work (an overworked adjec- 

 tive, perhaps, but justified in this case), repre- 

 sents a new kind of contribution to our garden 

 literature. Books covering the wide field of 

 garden design, and the selection and artistic 

 use of horticultural material, are a recognized 

 class in England, but "The American Flower 

 Garden," by the author of "Nature's Garden," 

 and " Bird Neighbors," written in a popular 

 style, is the first adequate example of this kind 

 of book adapted to the use of the American 

 amateur. It makes a strong plea for gardening 

 as a fine art. 



Its practical value may be judged from the 

 following list of chapters, and its planting 

 tables present to the garden-lover the cream of 

 the best plants available for certain uses, 

 without burdening the text with very rare and 

 unusual plants which only a few people are 

 likely to use. The principles which underly 

 the composing of various types of gardens, and 

 simple directions for their making, are given 

 to add to the book's completeness: 



The Partnership Between Nature and Art. 



Situation and Design. 



The Formal Garden. 



The Old-fashioned Garden. 



The Naturalistic Garden. 



The Wild Garden. 



The Rock Garden. 



The Water Garden. 



Trees. 



Shrubs. 



Perennials. 



Annuals. 



Bulbs and Tuberous Plants. 



The Rose Garden. 



Vines. 



Garden Furniture. 



The seed dealers' and nurserymen's cata- 

 logues offer a bewildering array of seeds, plants, 

 shrubs, vines, and trees to charm the purchaser. 

 This book is intended to help him to use all the 

 best of these materials, and in the right way; 

 to show him how to dignify gardening into an 

 art of never-failing delight; and to offer sug- 

 gestion and help for developing one's garden 

 into a satisfying whole, as distinguished from 



"To husiness that we love we rise betime 

 And go to 't with delight." — Antony and Cleopatra 



the impulsive, haphazard methods too often 

 employed. 



The 100 full-page plates, of which many 

 are colored, have been selected from thousands 

 of photographs, not alone for their unusually 

 great beauty, but also to truly illustrate the 

 ideas set forth in the text, and make them of 

 practical value. 



A limited and numbered edition of one 

 thousand and fifty copies has been prepared, 

 one thousand for sale, of which more than 

 six hundred have been ordered by purchasers 

 in advance. A special circular will be sent to 

 anyone on request, and it is expected that the 

 entire edition will be exhausted about the time 

 of publication. Copies may be ordered through 



your bookseller, or direct from Doubleday, 

 Page & Company. The publishers reserve the 

 right to raise the price, which, until publication, 

 will be $10 net. 



THE GARDEN AND FARM ALMANAC FOR IQOQ 



This is the time when this unique book is 

 most valuable. It has one department, of 

 which we have said little, but which has 



undoubted value. Each copy contains a dozen 

 "Inquiry Coupons." These coupons may be 

 sent to our Service Department, which will 

 at once answer any question relating to the 

 home and garden, provide information about 

 where any sort of tools, seeds, plants, and 

 country-house appliances may be secured, 

 prices, quality, etc. 



The Information Service Department has 

 grown into an institution. It has at its com- 

 mand the advice and knowledge of our twenty 

 editors of magazines and books, and the 

 experience of some years has greatly developed 

 its efficiency. It is a pleasure to know that 

 thousands of readers have been assisted to 

 information not always easy to command. 



The price of "The Garden and Farm Alma- 

 nac" for 1909 is 25 cents. 



THE GARDEN ANNUAL OF COUNTRY LIFE IN 

 AMERICA 



The really great and joyous issue of the year 

 is the March number. The cover, from a 

 Lumiere color photograph, is, we think, very 

 beautiful. There is also a section of garden 

 pictures in color photography, now a regular 

 feature, and this is the only magazine which 

 has attempted this difficult task, as yet, month 

 by month. Double spring number 50c at all 

 newsstands. 



No lover of country living should miss Country 

 Life in America for the year 1909. The 

 April issue will have color photographs of live 

 trout, and each month will have its own 

 special, unique color feature. Four dollars per 

 year, including three double numbers. 



THE WORLD'S WORK 



We wish that every reader of The Garden 

 Magazine — Farming knew about The World's 

 Work. Here is what one reader says of it: 



The only magazine that is any good at all as a 

 steady diet is The World's Work. It is good from 

 the first advertisement to the back page. 



We are not great believers in sample copies, 

 but to any reader of this paragraph, we will be 

 pleased to send a copy, with our compliments, to 

 show what kind of a magazine it is. 



The World's Work family has been enlarged by 

 about 50,000 new people within the last six 

 months. Twenty-five cents a number; $3 a year. 



