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The Garden Magazine, April, 1922 



Let April Showers Bring 

 You Sweet May Flowers 



All the Spring-blooming Wild Flowers may be 

 planted this month. A few alternating sunny and 

 showery days will bring out myriads of delicately 

 beautiful blossoms. There are kinds suitable for 

 every conceivable situation — moist or dry shade, 

 moist or dry sun, rocks, bogs, and water courses. 

 You can plant them in woodland or meadow, on 

 hillsides and in pastures, around the house or along 

 the fence. You can use them to border paths and 

 forest trails, to carpet sylvan glades and to gladden 

 the banks of brooks and ponds. All they require is 

 a congenial location, suitable soil, and a normal 

 supply of moisture. There is no hoeing or raking 

 or pruning or spraying. Once established, they 

 take care of themselves. 



April is the Time to Plant Ferns 



Thoreau said Nature created Ferns to show what she 

 could do in the way of foliage. I have forty-two 

 different kinds of ferns flourishing in my fern bowers 

 here at Southwick. They are all perfectly exquisite and 

 all perfectly hardy. They will grow for you as well as 

 they do for me. Plant them in masses, scatter a few 

 lilies, shooting stars, mertensias, and Solomon's seals 

 among them and you will have a bit of wildwood scenery 

 of surpassing charm. 



My Unusual Catalogue for 1922 



is by far the most complete and interesting issue I have ever published 

 It describes and illustrates all the worth-while native shrubs, ever- 

 greens, wild flowers, and ferns. It gives cultural directions that are 

 easily understood and followed. And it tells all about my Service 

 Organization of naturalistic experts and how they can help you in 

 establishing Wild Flower Sanctuaries, Bird Sanctuaries, Wild Woodland 

 Gardens, Rock Gardens, Bog Gardens, Water Gardens — any form of 

 naturalistic planting you may have in mind. Write for your copy 

 to-day. You'll find it as fascinating as any novel. 



Edward Gillett 



Fern and Flower Farm 

 Southwick, Mass. 



A woodland Rock Garden and Bird Sanctuary. Many berry-bearing bushes, 



vines, and wild flowers flourish here, providing nesting sites, shelter and food 



for multitudes of birds. 



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APR.IL, 1922 



THE GARDEN 



MAGAZINE 



CONTENTS 



COVER DESIGN: OLD-FASHIONED BOUQUET 



Carle j. Blenner 



FLOWERING SHRUBS BREAKING INTO BLOSSOM - - ^91 

 Photograph by Arthur G. Eldredge 



A BIT OF FORMAL GARDEN 92 



Photograph by Mary H. Northend 



A VISION OF SPRING 93 



THE MONTH'S REMINDER: WHEN TO DO WHAT YOU 



WANT TO DO 94 



Drawing by Velma T. Simkins 



THERE ARE GHOSTS OF GARDENS— Poem Hilda Morris 96 



A LITTLE CORNER IN NATIVES - Florence Taft Eaton 96 

 Photograph by Charles Darling 



FOUNDATION PLANTING THOUGHTS 



John Collins Campbell 98 

 Illustrations by the author 



TYING THE HOUSE TO THE GARDEN - - E. C. Stiles 99 

 Illustrations by the author, Harry G. Healy, Elsa 

 Rehmann, Frank Hamilton and others 



RASPBERRIES, BLACKBERRIES, AND DEWBERRIES 



FOR THE HOME GARDEN - - - John L. Doan 105 



MY NEW VENTURE: FLOWER PAINTING 



Carle J. Blenner 107 



SPRING IN A LONG ISLAND GARDEN 108 



Illustrations supplied by Olmsted Brothers 



NEWER GARDEN BOOKS OF NOTE 110 



A HANDFUL OF TOP-NOTCH GLADIOLUS 



Montague Chamberlain 1 1 1 

 Photograph by the author 



A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE GARDEN— III 



H. H. Manchester 113 

 Illustrations supplied by the author 



SOLVING THE SEASON'S SALAD SUPPLY Adolph Kruhm 116 

 Photographs by the author 



A 3-IN-l SPRAY FOR THE BUSY GARDENER .... 118 



WHAT CAN I GROW IN THE SHADE? Allen W. Edminster 119 



THE HOUSE THAT WAS BUILT FOR A GARDEN 



Arthur W. Colton 120 

 Illustrations supplied by Ruth Dean and Aymar Embury II 



PLANTING FACTS FOR READY REFERENCE .... 123 



NOW, ANYONE CAN GRAFT AT ANY TIME 



E. L. D. Seymour 125 

 Photograph supplied by the author 



THE DAY OF THE HARDY CHRYSANTHEMUM 



Charles H. Totty 127 

 Photograph by Adolph Kruhm 



AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS 128 



THE OPEN COLUMN - - - -. 129 



MORE AVENUE A GARDENS 130 



GROUND COVERS H. S. Adams 146 



Leonard Barron, Editor 



VOLUME XXXV, No. 2 

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