May, 1911 



'H rr p /'i a t> i \ tri xt "V r \ / ' t V r XT T7< F° r injormation about papular raorti 

 1 11 Yj Ks A It U T> IN M A Ijr A Z, 1 1\ Vj write to the Readers' Service 



223 



Cover Design- 



-Spring 



Nathan R. Graves 



Now, or Not At All --------- 225 



The Whole Subject of Dahlia Culture - - - - 226 



Photographs by A. G. Eldredge, Eugene J. Hall, and others 



A Symposium on Flower Beds and Bedding Plants 



Wilhelm Miller, William Trelease, 



H. C. Irish and Otto Bogula 232 



Photographs by N. R. Graves, A. G. Eldredge, and others 



Why Not Grow Nuts? - Robert T. Morris 237 



Photographs supplied by the author 



Growing Strawberries for What's In Them H. E. Angell 239 



Photographs by J. H. Hales 



Extending the Strawberry Season - - H. S. Adams 240 

 Children's Gardens Everywhere - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 241 



Photographs by Edward Mahoney and H. N. Porch 



The Housekeeper ---------- 243 



A Wild Flower With Many Merits Adeline Thayer Thomson 244 



Photograph by the author 



A New Celery Culture . - - - - J. W. Biggers 244 



Drawing by the author 



Discoveries of a Southern Amateur - Charles E. Raynal 246 



The Southern Summer Begins - - - Thomas J. Steed 248 



Photograph by the author 



Raising Corn with Dynamite - - Archie Richardson 250 

 How to Move Big Evergreens - - - Richard Barton 



Photograph by the author 



Single Chrysanthemums Treated as Annuals 



Sydney B. Mitchell 



Photograph by the author 



Plant Gladiolus Now ----- Grace Re Shore 



Photograph by Arthur G. Eldredge 



How Everyone Can Grow Muskmelons Henri Wickenden 

 Early Summer Reminders - 



252 



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Planting Fruit to Advantage - 

 How to Take Care of Tools - 

 How to Make Beds and Borders - 



Drawings by the author 



Dandelion Greens for Spring 



262 



Sydney B. Mitchell 264 



H. F. Grinstead 266 



B. H. Crocheron 268 



W. S. Rogers 272 



A. B. Cutting 276 



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