June, 1911 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



317 



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Intensive vs. Extensive Culture 

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 The Consumer Coming Into His Own 

 Money in the Back Yard 



How to Make Twenty -four Tomato Plants Hand You Fifty 



Dollars 

 Does Hoeing Pay ? Well, Rather! 

 What a Garden Did for an Invalid 

 A New Kind of Economy in the Garden 

 Plant Early and Smile at Your Neighbors 

 The Versatile Hotbed 

 Growing Plants in a Chicken Brooder 

 Hotbed Results — Without a Hotbed 

 How to Grow Vegetables Before You Plant Them 

 Modern Success — With Old-Fashioned Methods 

 Getting Better Seed 



The " Best " Potato and How to Obtain It 

 It's Never Too Late to Garden 

 A Garden Planted After the Fourth of July 

 Discovered! The Real Use for a Back Fence 

 One-fifth of a Ton of Tomatoes from 300 Square Feet of Ground 

 Getting Along Without Manure 

 Making Tomato Plants Perennial 



Making Your Own Springtime 



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Successful Gardens You Can Have 



Twelve Hundred Per Cent. Profit from 20 x 27 feet of Ground 



Bean-strings — Cheaper and Simpler than Poles 



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What Science Has Done for the Gardener 



The Redemption of a 28-foot-square Back Yard 



What the Square Yielded 



What One Woman Can Do With Ten Dollars 



Suggestions Worth Money 



A Practical Working Calendar 



Tales of Three Gardens and Three Hundred Dollars 



What the Man " Without Any Time " Can Do 



A New Chapter in the " Book of Friendship " 



Transplanting — One Way to Save Space 



A Ten-Minutes-A-Day Garden 



Five Crops on One Foot of Ground 



What Your Garden Can Grow 



Combining Succession and Rotation 



Exploring the Unknown — A Plea for Unfamiliar Vegetables 



Boys — and Girls — and Gardens 



A Fourteen-Year-Old Boy's Garden That Produced Seventy 



Dollars 

 The Thorough Gardener and His Reward 

 The Need of Garden Records 

 Can You Devise a Better One ? 



Getting the Most Out of Frames and Hotbeds 



The Difference Between " Coldframes " and " Hotbeds " 



How to Build a Hotbed 



A New Method for Hardening Hotbed Plants 



Hotbed Mats 



A Home-made Straw Mat 



Building the Coldlrame 



The Entire Management of a Coldframe 

 A Year's Cycle in the Garden 



The Planning Season: December to February 



The Season of Planting: March to June 



The Busy Growing Season: May to October 



The Quiet Season: November 

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The Greatest Secret of All 



What Certain Plants Like Best 



Fertility That Every Garden tan Have 



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The Simple Art of Using Manure 



Saving Manure — Saving Money 



Concentrated Plant Food for Small Gardens 



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Manures That You Don't Have to Buy 



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