THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



TH E- TALK' OFTHE- OFFICE 



GARDEN MAGAZINE PROSPECTS 



Our readers will be glad to know that The 

 Garden Magazine starts off upon the festive 

 season of spring, full of the hope and encour- 

 agement that comes from having received dur- 

 ing the past few months from twice to three 

 times as many subscriptions as it ever did before, 

 in a like period and plans for making a better 

 magazine as well as a bigger magazine are work- 

 ing out, we think, in a most effective and 

 successful way. A new color press, to enable us 

 to make the magazine more attractive as to color, 

 has been installed and we hope our readers will 

 do what they can to extend the influence of the 

 magazine among Garden Magazine readers. 



THE GARDEN LIBRARY 



Another thing which is gratifying us very 

 much is the vastly increased sale of the books 

 which we have been making for some years, 

 devoted to the garden, and which we have 

 gathered together in a uniform edition, and 

 sell at a low price, and upon payments which 

 enable the most humble garden lover, to buy 

 them without a strain on his purse strings. 



The nine volumes, bound in serviceable cloth, 

 size 5 x 7f , abundantly illustrated, are as 

 follows: 



"The Flower Garden," "The Vegetable 

 Garden," " The Orchard and Fruit Garden," 

 "Roses and How to Grow Them," "House 

 Plants," "Ferns," "Lawns," "Daffodils," 

 "Water Lilies." 



'To business that we love we rise betime 

 Andgro to 't with delight." — Anlo7iy and Cleopatra 



COUNTRY LIFE ANNUAL GARDEN MANUAL 



We want to call the attention of the readers 

 of The Garden Magazine to this magazine's big 

 sister, Country Life in America, which every 

 year, in March, celebrates the return of spring. 

 This Double Gardening Number is meant to 

 be a manual useful the entire year round. 



In this issue there will be an attempt to cover 

 the whole wide range of gardening subjects — 

 vegetable, fruit, flower, and landscape garden- 

 ing of different types in a single article. This 

 idea will be brought out most definitely in a 

 series of planting tables, in a new and con- 

 cise form, by Thomas McAdam — a series 

 that will be worth preserving for all time. 

 Other illustrated articles will be: 



" The Joy of Gardening," by Neltje Blanchan, with 

 illustrations in color. 



"A Little Garden on the Lewis and Clark Trail," by 

 Hortense Ferguson Childs. 



"What England Can Teach Us About Garden 

 Cities," by Wilhelm Miller. 



"A Newport Garden," by Leonard Barron. 



"Garden Arbors and Pergolas Really Worth While." 

 A page of photographs. 



" How One Town Is Saving Its Trees," by Walter A. 

 Dyer. 



" Twenty-four Hours in a Garden," by Flora Lewis 

 Marble. 



" Old Gardens of a Connecticut Village," by H. S. 

 Adams. 



" Laying Out a Suburban Place," by Beatrix Jones. 



" The Alpine Garden in America." 



The Homebuilders' Supplement will include "An 

 Italian Villa in New Jersey," by Sherwin Hawley; 

 " How to Make Old Time Rush Chair Seats," " Brick- 

 work and Framework," and "How We Remodeled 

 Our Country House," by Mrs. Lew Wallace. 



And all the regular departments. 



We wish we could tell the beauty and effec- 

 tiveness of the pictures, but for them we must 

 refer to the magazine itself. A single copy of this 

 double number costs fifty cents on the news- 

 stands — single numbers thirty-five cents. As 

 a rule, they are sold out before most people 

 remember to inquire for them, and, in case the 

 reader wishes to buy a single copy, we strongly 

 suggest that he orders from his news-dealer 

 now. Subscription price, $4 a year. It will 

 be published on February 25th. 



SHORT STORIES 



W r e have recently taken under our charge for 

 the Short Stories Publishing Company, a maga- 

 zine of wholesome fiction, which has been 

 published for twenty years under the title of 



Short Stories, and which under our manage- 

 ment, we are thankful to say, during the last 

 year, has about doubled in circulation. Begin- 

 ning with the March number, it is enlarged, and, 

 we think, improved in every way. It has a 

 very great news-stand circulation, and can be 

 found on any news-stand anywhere in the 

 United States. To those out of touch with the 

 news-stands, we should be glad to send it 

 regularly for a year for $1.50. 



BIND YOUR GARDEN MAGAZINES 



We are constantly receiving letters from 

 people, saying that they wish they had thought to 

 bind their Garden Magazines, but did not get 

 around to it until they had lost several of the 

 ' back numbers, and they write to us for the back 

 numbers, which we are sometimes not able to 

 supply. This is not a matter of profit to us, 

 but we earnestly suggest that all readers who 

 are really interested in garden literature should 

 spend the small sum necessary to bind their 

 magazines, and file them away. They will 

 find numberless occasions when the magazine 

 will prove to be of value to them. We will 

 furnish title page and index, free on application, 

 and covers which you can give your local binder, 

 for 50 cents ; or if the magazines are returned to 

 us, we will bind them for 75 cents. We have to 

 ask you to pay the expressage on the magazines 

 both coming and going. It is better to send us 

 two volumes at a time, which covers a whole 

 year, and thus save expressage. The last 

 volume ended with the January number. 

 February begins a new volume, the eleventh. 

 We can supply bound copies of the following 

 volumes: 



Volumes V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X. 

 Price $2; carriage extra. 



But we strongly recommend that our readers 

 bind their own numbers. The advertisements 

 are bound with the books, because we have 

 found that they are often required for reference. 



THE GARDEN ALMANAC 



This is the time to use The Garden and Farm 

 Almanac most. Most almanacs are planned 

 to be used on the first of the year, and then 

 dropped gradually into the scrap basket. The 

 Garden and Farm Almanac is a useful hand- 

 book for the next three months. It costs 25 

 cents postpaid. 



