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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



THE- TALK- OF-THE ■ OFFICE 



DO IT SOW 



WE wish to suggest to our readers to begin 

 at once to keep a complete file of The 

 Garden Magazine. They will find that 

 at the end of six months or a year the num- 

 bers will be very valuable to bind. For each 

 volume there will be a complete index, and 

 as it is a practical magazine, in its bound 

 form it becomes an invaluable reference 

 work, a veritable encyclopedia of gardening. 

 We wish to lay especial stress on this matter 

 now, for the reason that many subscribers to 

 our other magazines, The World's Work and 

 Country Life in America, put off binding 

 their magazines until the first volume was 

 absolutely unobtainable. As it is now, the 

 February number of The Garden Magazine 

 is out of print and most difficult to find. A 

 little later we will print particulars of a 

 form of binding, with prices, etc.; but we 

 wish now to caution our readers to save 

 their copies in the belief that they will thank 



AN OPPORTUNITY TO HELP 



We receive scores of letters from readers 

 who are kind enough to approve of The 

 Garden Magazine, and we are glad to say 

 that the subscription list thrives wonderfully 

 under this kind recommendation of one 

 subscriber to another. We especially want 

 to ask the co-operation of subscribers to 

 interest ?.ew readers; and we will give to any 

 person who will secure two subscriptions to 

 the magazine, and remit two dollars, a copy 

 of "How to Make a Flower Garden," 

 described in the advertising pages of this 

 issue, or a copy of J. Wilkinson Elliott's 

 book, "A Plea for a Hardy Garden." We 

 will send circulars upon application, if our 

 friends will be good enough to send us the 

 names of any one interested. 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE COIN CARDS 



We have made some most attractive cards, 

 which hold a silver quarter-dollar, and are 

 thus made good for a trial subscription. If 

 you want to help us extend our subscription 

 list send for as many of these as you can use 

 among your friends. They will at once be 

 forwarded, with our best thanks for your 

 interest. Indications point to a great circu- 

 lation of this card. 



" To business that we love we rise betime 

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



COUNTRY LIFE LN AMERICA 



We hope every reader of The Garden 

 Magazine has seen the annual March Gar- 

 dening Number of Country Lije in A merica. 

 It is so far the best we have ever put forth, 

 and we are vain enough to think, in beauty 

 of illustration, in its practical value and in 

 general luxuriousness, it will long be consid- 

 ered a model. The issue contains 150 pages 

 and 150 important illustrations. 



The April number of Country Lije in 

 America is hardly less attractive, though the 

 magazine fills its broad field of the whole of 

 out-door life. Its butterfly cover indicates 

 one of its interesting articles. There will 

 also be articles on "The Polo Pony and 

 His Training" and "The Art of Pigeon 

 Growing and Raising," and an important 

 story in the series devoted to home build- 

 ing and choosing the site, by an expert 

 architect. The second of the articles on 

 roses, begun in the March number, will be 

 printed in April. Ernest Thompson Seton 

 writes on " Blazes and Signs in Trail Making." 

 There will be a most valuable article on 

 "Bee Keeping" by Mrs. Anna Botsford 

 Comstock, and the usual helpful, detailed 

 monograph on "Practical Agriculture" by 

 Mr. H. J. Wheeler. 



A year's subscription to Country Life in 

 America is a year of delight, and to induce 

 readers of The Garden Magazine to know 

 its elder sister, Country Lije in America, we 

 make an especial offer of three months for 

 fifty cents if sent now. 



THE VEGETABLE BOOK 



About April 1st we shall publish "The 

 Home Vegetable Garden," by Edith Lor- 

 ing Fullerton, which we believe to be the 

 best book on the subject for four reasons. 

 First, it is the only American book we 

 know of that is restricted to the home 

 vegetable garden (most of the books on this 

 subject are devoted chiefly to commercial 

 gardening methods which only serve to 

 confuse the amateur). Second, it is both 

 practical and lively, whereas most gardening 

 books are dull reading if they are at all 

 practical. Third, we are sure it has more 

 and better illustrations than any book on 

 vegetable gardening ever published in 

 America. Fourth, it has a planting table, 

 which tells just what to plant early, the main 



crrps, how deep, how far apart, when they 

 are ready to eat, and all the necessary points. 

 This table shows at a glance by columns 

 just what to do. It is printed separately and 

 put in a pocket, so that it may be taken into 

 the garden along with the seeds and tools. 

 The book will be uniform in size and illus- 

 trations with "How to Make a Flower 

 Garden." Every one who has had a glimpse 

 of the text and pictures is enthusiastic, and 

 we anticipate a larger sale for this book than 

 any book on vegetable gardening ever 

 printed. The price is $2.00 net, postage 

 20 cts. extra. 



THE POULTRY BOOK 



After three years' hard work we have com- 

 pleted a book which we believe will stand 

 for many years as the authority on poultry. 

 We purchased the rights of this book from 

 the author, Mr. Harrison Weir, in England, 

 thinking that only a slight modification 

 would make the work suitable for American 

 readers. We found, however, that we were 

 practically obliged to make a complete new 

 book, a task which we have now just com- 

 pleted after an expense of many thousand 

 dollars and years of work. Our readers in- 

 terested in this most important subject are 

 invited to send for special circulars. 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE LIBRARY 



We hope that the readers of this magazine 

 will be interested in a plan which we hope 

 to start in April for a series of small but 

 beautiful monographs on special flowers and 

 plants. The first volume will naturally be 

 devoted to the most popular of all our flowers, 

 Roses, and is written by Doctor Huey and 

 Captain Ward, the leading amateur rosarians 

 in the vicinity of Philadelphia and New 

 York respectively; with an appendix on 

 varieties for every place and purpose by 

 Leonard Barron, Secretary of the American 

 Rose Scciety. 



Others are planned for Bulbs, Chrysan- 

 themums, Rhododendrons and Azaleas, and 

 Water Lilies. The books will be beautiful 

 in typography, illustration, and binding. 



The price will be 50 cents in paper 

 and $r in cloth, both net. At this writing 

 the first volume is just started through 

 the press. We hope next month to give 

 further particulars. 



