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MAY, 1910 



COVER DESIGN Foxgloves in a School Garden 



Frederick V. Hoi man 228 



The Last Call for Early Sowing 

 Where Roses Run Riot 



Photographs by the author 



A Simplified Chart for Your Vegetable Garden 



Plans by the author Loiiis G. Beers 



A Crop Worth $10,000 an Acre . . . L. C. Corbett 



Photograph by H. Troth 



Hardy Flowers All the Year Photographs by the author Robert Cameron 

 The Evolution of American Fruit-Growing, II. Wilhelm Miller 



Photographs by S. W. Fletcher 



Complete Insurance Against Garden Pests /. Lukens Kayan 



Photographs by the author 



Quality in Peanuts Photographs by the author . T. J. Steed 



Children's Gardens Everywhere . Ellen Eddy Shaw 



Photographs by the author, Susan Sipe and others 



The Readers' Experience Club . . . 



Where to Plant the Stone Fruits 



Photographs by the author 



The Best Fruit Districts 



BAGGING GRAPES . Photograph by the author 



Planting the Plum Trees 

 Brown Rot of Peaches 

 Heading Off the Kieffer Pears 



Photograph by the author 



for Late Crop . . /. M. Angell 

 from Cuttings . . Fred Gardner 



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Planting Tomatoes 

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Professor Sargent's Azalea Show 



Photograph by J. H. McFarland 



Planning for June Peas . . . Laura B. Carpenter 245 

 The Secret of Sweet Corn Photographs by the author W. C. McCollom 246 

 An Experience with Asparagus from Seed A. C. Brown 250 

 A Shrub for a Shady Place . . . W. C. Egan 250 



The Right Kind of Onion Soil Photographs by the author H. J. Wilder 252 

 Continuous Bloom for the Middle West from Native 



Plants . . . . . . C. L. Meller 256 



Why I Like Cornflowers Photograph by the author /. M. Angell 260 

 The Month's Work in the South . Thomas J. Steed 262 



Photographs by the author 



Improving the Potato 264 



A Color Scheme from the Coast . Anna M. B. Nash 266 



How to Build a Rose House 266 



Preparing the Soil for Planting . David Mcintosh 268 



Using Straw Matting in the Garden . . Walter H. Sears 268 

 Pole Beans 'Till October Photograph by the author Ella M. Beals 270 



A Lucky Hazard in Asters . 

 Raising Your Own Celery Plants 

 Early Planting of Dahlias . 



A WARNING HlNT . Photograph by the author 



Is Gunnera Hardy? 



Answers to Queries . . . . 



F. E. Mcllvaine 270 



. H. F. G. 272 



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Herbert Pembroke 



. Mrs. W. G. R. 



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