June, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZIX E 



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TH E- TALK- OFTHE- OFFICE 



SPRING IN GARDEN CITY 



For the first time we feel ready to receive 

 visitors, with comparatively few things to 

 apologize for. It took a short time to erect 

 the building for the Country Life Press, 

 but it has taken a long time to get all the new 

 machinery necessary for the complete opera- 

 tion of all the departments. The last to be 

 put in order is the color department for 

 photo-engraving, so that we now make our 

 own plates for colored covers and illustrations. 

 The very latest machine is the binder which 

 is being installed to put a magazine together 

 so that the World's Work will be open flat 

 instead of being wired with rigid staples, 

 which permit of only half opening it. 



An early fall and a late spring have held 

 up much of the planting out of doors, but 

 much of the work was done in April, after 

 five months of outdoor inactivity, and by 

 the time these lines get into print we hope 

 everything will be green and attractive. 



At all events, such as the place is, our 

 friends and neighbors will be made welcome. 



"To business that we love we rise betime 

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



Please note that the telegraph station in 

 our building is the Western Union. Do not 

 use the Postal Telegraph to Garden City — 

 it means delay. 



The Garden and Farm Almanac has been 

 entirely sold out and no copies can be supplied 

 until the 1912 Almanac is ready next 

 December. 



The Sweet Pea Society has an exhibition 

 on our grounds in June — 150 varieties of 

 bloom. 



The American Booksellers' Association held 

 its convention in New York and a train load 

 visited us at Garden City on May 9th, 

 greatly to our pleasure. 



April saw more than 8,000 trees, shrubs, 

 and flowers planted on our grounds. 

 bind your copies of "the garden 

 magazine" 



May we suggest again the value of the 

 bound volume of The Garden Magazine ? It is 

 valuable as a book of reference, it is interesting 

 as a magazine to read; you will find that if 

 you go back and study the bound volume, 



Vols. 

 Vols. 

 Vols. 

 Vol. 



$5.00 per volume 

 3oO " " 

 2.00 " 



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when you are in the mood, there are number- 

 less suggestions and ideas which you missed 

 in reading the monthly issue. 



For some years we had trouble to get the 

 magazine properly bound in cloth; now 

 we bind it ourselves, and we hope to the 

 satisfaction of our readers. 



If you send back your own numbers in 

 good condition, we will exchange them for 

 the bound volume for 75c. We will furnish 

 binding cases, so that your local binder can 

 do the work, for 50c, postage 7c extra. You 

 can purchase back volumes, if you care to 

 complete your set, from the small stock we 

 have, at the following prices: 

 L— III. . . 

 IV.— VIII. . . 

 IX.— XII. . . 

 XIII. . . 



Volume XIII is the last and it was finished 

 in February, 191 1. You can, if you choose, 

 do the business personally with any of our 

 offices as follows: 

 Main Office: Garden City, L. I. 

 New York Bookshop; Pennsylvania Station. 

 New York Advertising Office: n-13 West 



Thirty-Second Street, New York. 

 Boston Office: Tremont Building. 

 Chicago Office: 150 Michigan Avenue. 



BOOKS FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR 

 The Garden Library 



This new series of "little monographs" marks a 

 new era in garden literature. It is the first series of 

 low-priced, practical handbooks on home gardening 

 with beautiful illustrations that has ever appeared 

 in America. Each volume illustrated. Size, 51 x 8. 

 Cloth. Postpaid, Si. 20; net, Si. 10. 



Roses, and How to Grow Them. By Many 

 Experts. 



Ferns, and How to Grow Them. By G. A. 

 YVoolson. 



Lawns, .and How to Make Them. By Leonard 

 Barron. 



Daffodils — Narcissus, and How to Grow 

 Them. By A. M. Kirby. 



Water-Lilies, and How to Grow Them. By 

 Henri Hits and Henry S. Conard. 



House Plants. By Parker Thayer Barnes. . 



Orchard .and Fruit Garden. By E. P. Powell. 



The Flower Garden. By Ida D. Bennett. 



The Vegetable Garden. By Ida D. Bennett. 



Vines, and How to Grow Them. By William 

 McCollom. 



Chrysanthemums, and How to Grow Them. 

 By I. L. Powell. 

 'Garden Planning. By W. S. Rogers. 



