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NOVEMBER, 1909 



COVER DESIGN A Chrysanthemum Garden 



Helen Lukens Jones 



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Gain a Year Right Now 167 



Making the Garden Live Longer . W. C. McCollom 168 



Photographs by the author 



Concrete for the Garden . . . Herbert E. Angell 170 



Photographs by the author 



Fall Planting Tables for South and North P. J. Berckmans 173 



Photographs by N. R. Graves, H. Troth and others 



Large-flowered Chrysanthemums Out-of-doors 



Viola McColm 176 



Photographs by the author 



Optimism in the Gardens of Hope . Ida M. H. Starr 177 



Photographs by the author and C. W. Benson 



The Right and Wrong Kind of Tropical Effects . 



Wilhelm Miller 179 



Photographs by E. J. Wallis and others 



Children's Gardens Everywhere . . Ellen Eddy Shaw 182 



Photographs by the author and N. R. Graves 



Storing Vegetables for Winter Use . J. Lukens Kayan 186 



Photographs by H. Troth and N. R. Graves 



March Sowing in the Fall . . . . I. M. Angell 186 

 Fragrant Shrubs and Vines . . . . L. C. Meller 188 



. Robert Mayer it 

 Louis G. Beers li 



Transplanting the Butterfly Weed 

 A Garden Chart and Cabinet 



Photographs by the author 



Where Dahlias are Hardy 188 



Making Potting Soil L. B. M . 190 



Good Results from an Old Bulb . . . M. F. B. 190 



House Bulbs from Thanksgiving to March for One Dollar 



M. W. 192 



Photograph by the author 



Succession in the Garden 



Hints for the Season .... 



Photograph by Arthur Hewitt 



How to Select Window Gardening Tools . . . .198 

 Covering for Winter .... Thomas J. Steed 200 

 A November-blooming Cattleya . . . J. G. Sinclair 202 



Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 



Make Your Roadside Interesting All Winter . 



Thomas McAdam 204 

 Annuals versus Perennials Veronica 204 



Veronica 1 94 

 . 196 



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