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COMPLETING THE FILES 



THE demand has been so great and per- 

 sistent for the back numbers of The 

 Garden Magazine that we have now pre- 

 pared complete files and can supply any 

 number our readers need to fill their sets. 



The Hollyhock cover for July 



that they preserve their copies and bind them 

 at the end of the year. It will be found that 

 this magazine is a veritable cyclopedia of hor- 

 ticultural information. A full index will be 

 prepared at the end of each volume, which 

 will make all the contents of every number 

 quickly available. 



the garden library 



We have greatly regretted to disappoint 

 many readers who have asked for the first 

 volume of the new Garden Library — the 

 book on roses. It has taken longer than 

 we anticipated to prepare it, but by June ioth, 

 if not earlier, it will be ready. 



The plan is to make these books helpful, 

 practical, and complete, though extremely 

 compact. Naturally the monographs will 



' To business that we love we rise betime 

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



all be beautifully illustrated. The price 

 will be 50 cents in paper, and Si in cloth 

 binding. 



We will give a copy to anyone who will 

 send two new subscribers to The Garden 

 Magazine, or one new subscriber 'to The 

 World's Work or Country Lije in America. 



BOSTON AND PITTSBURG 



The readers in Boston or Pittsburg who 

 desire anv information about our magazines 

 or books are invited to call at our offices in 

 those cities. The Boston office is at 334 

 Old South Building, and the Pittsburg 

 office, 501 Nixon Building. 



Samples of the binding of the magazines 

 and various other things can be seen at these 

 places, and our readers will be welcomed. 



THE VEGETABLE BOOK 



Of all the books we have ever made on any 

 out-of-door subject we think "How to Make 

 a Vegetable Garden," by Mrs. Fullerton, is 

 the most practical and helpful. The best 

 part of two years has been spent in preparing 

 the volumes with pen and camera. To do 

 the work from first-hand, up-to-date expe- 

 rience it was necessary to try out by actual 

 experiment all of the plants and methods 

 and implements treated and described. 

 More than two hundred photographs were 

 taken especially for the volume by Mr. 

 Fullerton, and nothing that the amateur 

 can possibly want to know about a modern 

 vegetable garden has been neglected. Price 

 $2.20, postage paid. 



THE BEE BOOK 



This is the best time to buy a hive of bees 

 — it will pay for itself within the first year, 

 and its inhabitants will double in number 

 before the end of the summer; one ends 

 the season with perhaps thirty pounds of 

 honey and two hives instead of one. Mrs. 

 Comstock tells everything that the amateur 

 needs to know about beekeeping, and "How 

 to Keep Bees" will certainly lead thousands 

 to add this delightful pleasure to the joys of 

 country living. $1 ; postage, 10 cents. 



NEW ENCOURAGEMENT FOR "THE GARDEN 

 MAGAZINE" 



Perhaps our subscribers are wearied of 

 reading stories about the success of The 



Garden Magazine; but when we say that 

 the circulation has doubled in five months 

 without any sensational efforts, the result of 

 a steady and healthy growth, we think the 

 success of the magazine should please every 

 garden lover — since it means more garden 

 lovers. Letters of warm encouragement 

 have been received from such famous author- 

 ities as William Robinson, the author of 

 "The English Flower Garden," and Sir 

 Alfred Harmsworth, the proprietor of two- 

 score of magazines, who say that the maga- 

 zine really fills its field. We confess to 

 especial pleasure from these letters, coming 

 from England, the home of the best garden 

 publications. At this writing the subscrip- 

 tions are coming faster than ever before. 



A VACATION NUMBER 



Country Life in America for June devotes 

 itself to the business of preparing for and 



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enjoying an outdoor vacation. It is a 

 veritable vacation guide. There is no 

 room here to even mention all the ways 

 suggested for spending, either a few days, or a 

 long vacation lasting through the summer. 



