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THE- TALK- OF- THE - OFFICE 



FINAL WARNING 



WE completed our supply of all the num- 

 bers of this magazine, and have 

 been sending any back numbers needed to 

 fill sets held by readers It is well that we 

 did so, as the demand has been much larger 

 than we anticipated, so that our stock has 

 run low. We will supply all back numbers 

 up to August i st, if the stock holds out, at 

 the regular price of 10 cents each, postpaid. 

 After that we shall be obliged to charge 15 

 cents each for all numbers more than sixty 

 days old. We have been frequently asked 

 why not reprint from time to time. For 

 the reason that a small edition of such a 

 printing as The Garden Magazine would 

 cost from 50 cents to §1 a copy. 



binding cases 

 for holding a year's number will be sent 

 postpaid on receipt of 75 cents. May we 

 again urge all our readers to preserve their 

 files complete before it is too late? 



BINDING FOR VOLUME I. READY 



This issue of The Garden Magazine 

 closes the first volume. An index will be 

 ready July 1st and is free on request. Num- 

 bers returned in good condition will be bound 

 for 75 cents. Express must be paid by sub- 

 scriber. Cases for binding, which can be 

 used by local binder and save express and 

 delay, 50 cents postpaid. 



magazine supplies 

 Almost every month we run out of maga- 

 zines because our readers rely on getting 

 their numbers late in the month. From 

 the newsstands the supply has been exhausted 

 regularly month after month. If The Gar- 

 den Magazine is worth anything, it is worth 

 the subscription price, $1 a year. If you 

 have seen a copy now and then and liked it, 

 would it not be well for you to send us a 

 dollar for a year's subscription ? More peo- 

 ple subscribed in the month of May than in 

 any month since the magazine started. 



fall planting number 



The October issue, which will be published 

 September 1 5th, will be devoted to fall plant- 

 ing, as the April number was devoted to 

 spring planting. More and more expert 

 gardeners plant in the fall. The spring sea- 



' To business that we love we rise betime 



't with delight." — Ajitony and Cleopatra. 



son is one of excessive activity, and it is diffi- 

 cult to do one's spring work and be in time 

 to get the best results. Hardy plants and 

 bulbs put carefully into the ground in the 

 fall are ready to take advantage of the early 

 spring season, and get vastly better results. 

 If the human mind takes its chief pleasure in 



Cover for the August number 



anticipation, surely fall planting must become 

 the most popular form of gardening, as it 

 should be. 



CYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN HORTICULTURE 



We are at work on the new edition cf 

 Professor Bailey's "Cyclopedia of American 

 Horticulture." It will be ready about Sep- 

 tember 1st, with many additions, a new Key 

 to the Vegetable Kingdom, which is included 

 in no other book of this kind, and a host of 

 beautiful new full-page illustrations. It will 

 be complete in six great volumes. To people 

 who will give their orders in advance of 

 printing, to enable us to enlarge the first 

 edition printing order, we will make special 

 terms. You are invited to send for par- 

 ticulars, as every reader of The Garden 

 Magazine really needs this great work. 



the evergreen number 



The August issue of , The Garden Maga- 

 zine will be devoted/largely to evergreens. 

 Our gardeners are cultivating and perfecting 

 our evergreens and growing them so well and 

 cheaply that they are yearly increasing in 

 popularity. Here are some of the subjects 

 treated: 



The Culture of Evergreens. 



Evergreens for Special Purposes. 



Evergreens for Wind-breaks, Hedges and Screens. 



The Best Spruces. 



Transplanting Large Evergreens in August. 



The Retinospora Puzzle Solved. 



Evergreen Shrubs and Dwarf Trees. 



Decorative Conifers. 



Broad-leaved Evergreens. 



This Evergreen issue follows out the plan 

 we had in mind when the magazine was begun 

 of having four special issues which should be 

 manuals of lasting importance and value — 

 the Spring and Autumn Planting numbers, 

 the Christmas number, which will take the 

 garden indoors, and finally the Evergreen 

 number. 



garden books 



The list of books which we publish, and 

 which every garden lover will enjoy, include: 



How to Make a Vegetable Garden, by E. L. Fullerton, $2. 



How to Make a Flower Garden, $1, net. 



Roses, and How to Grow Them, $1, net. 



Our Native Orchids, a book left unpublished by William 



Hamilton Gibson, $1.35, net. 

 How to Keep Bees, by Mrs. A. B. Comstock, $1, net. 

 First Book of Farming, by C. L. Goodrich, $2, net. 



NATURE CLUBS 



In connection with the "Nature Library," 

 and to extend the usefulness of that unique 

 set, we have inaugurated a series of Nature 

 Leaflets, published every other month. These 

 should prove invaluable to the thousands of 

 people all over the country who have gone 

 far enough in their study of birds and flowers 

 and insects, and so on, to feel the need of the 

 stimulus that comes from organized effort 

 along these lines. These leaflets, prepared 

 by Mrs. Anna Botsford Comstock, tell just 

 how to form and run a Nature Club, and 

 give definite programs for meetings and 

 excursions in the special months of issue. 

 The June- July one, for instance, tells sug- 

 gestively of the study of wild roses, the oriole, 

 the woodchuck, the tiger swallowtail but- 

 terfly, and so on. 



