September, 1910 



THE GARDEN M A G A Z 1 X E 



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SEPTEMBER, 1910 



Cover Design — • The Gold-banded Lily of Japan (izv^fm a»rav»HO .... 



PAGE 



September Activities 57 



Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 



Succession Crops in the Flower Garden Mrs. Francis King 58 



Photographs by the author 



Little Gardens on Crannied Walls . .U.S. Adams 60 



Photographs by H. E. Angell, H. Troth and others 



" Sours and Billies " John Gifford 62 



Photographs by the author 



Choosing a Site for the Garden . . . W. S. Rogers 64 

 What Is a " Primrose " ? . . . . Sherman R. Duffy 65 



Photographs by the author 



Plant Daffodils Now A. M. Kirhy 67 



Photograph by Nathan R. Gra\-es 



Pink, Blue, and Yellow for a Shaded Garden 



Anne D. McKibbin 68 



How TO Keep Squash 



Har\^sting the Crops 



Caring for the New Strawberry Bed 



Photograph by the author 



A Wail from a Wee Garden 

 Chance Effects of Spraying 

 Roses from Cuttings 

 What Hurt thf: Rosebuds? 



Garden Gossip 



Don't Neglect the Garden Now 

 Roadside Gardening Club 



Color Harmonies in Adjoining Beds . . J/. A^. Reed 68 



Photograph by the author 



A Profitable Hobby in Dahlias . Mrs. Edward Warren 70 



Photographs by the author 



Readers' Experience Club 72 



Children's Gardens Everywhere . . Ellen Eddy Shaw 73 



Photographs by O. A. Morton and Flora Malcolm 



The Advantage of a Coldframe . . W. C. McCollom 74 



Photographs by the author 



Fall Planted Vegetables . . Julie Adams Powell 74 



Sulphate of Iron for Weeds and Other Things .A. C. Broum 86 



.\ Beautiful Spirea .... 



Photograph by K. J. \Valli> 



A New Lawts" Pest . 

 Seeding the Lawn .... 

 Fall Planting in the Middle West 

 Transplanting thf: Lobelia 



Photographs by the author 



My Scheme for Watering Shrubbery 



Photograph by the author 



Henry G. Taylor 



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H. F. Crinskad 74 



W. H. Jenkins 75 



.1/. Roberts Conover 75 



Mary Youngs 76 

 E. S. Johnson 76 

 S. H. 78 

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 Thomas J. Steed 82 

 Thomas McAdam 84 



W. M. 88 



E. P. Felt 90 



L. B. 90 



Fred N ussbaumer 92 



Adeline T. Thomson 94 



. C. L. Metier 96 



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