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Cover Design — Tulips in a Spring Garden 



Nathan R. Graves 



The Month's Reminder ------------ g 



Growing High Quality Sweet Peas - - - - G. W. Kerr io 



Photographs by the author and G. D. Bartlett, Jr. 



Choosing Fruits for the Home Garden - W. C. McCollom 12 



Photographs by L. Barron, John Boyd and others 



The "Fun" of Collecting Stonecrops, II - Wilhelm Miller 



Photographs by E. J. Wallis and A. G. Eldredge 



Flowers for a Make-shift Greenhouse 



Martha Haskell Clark 



Photographs by the author and N. R. Graves 



Starting Dahlias Early ------- E. S. Johnson 



Photographs by the author 



Dahlias in Southern Gardens - - - - - -T.J. Steed 



Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 



Readers' Experience Club -----------23 



Children's Gardens Everywhere - - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 24 

 Unusual Plants for Indoor Culture - - Luke J. Doogue 26 



Photographs by the author 



Window Gardening Under Difficulties - - - H. M. S. 27 

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The Year's- Calendar of Flowers in the House 



Conservatory ------ Martha H. Clark 30 



A Miniature Greenhouse for Sweet Peas 



Mrs. E. H. Phowhcad 34 



Plant Sugar Cane Now ------ Thomas J. Steed 34 



Trees and Shrubs - - - - E. P. Felt and /. /. Levison 36 



The Good Points of Standard Roses - - W. D. Ellwanger 38 



Varieties of Sweet Peas -------- G. W. Kerr 40 



A Hotbed Any One Can Make ----- W.A.Pryal 42 



Photograph by the author 



Fertilizer for Cotton - - - - - - - - - - E. O. P. 44 



The Hardiness of Shrubs - ------ -E.A.Smith 46 



More About the Christmas Rose - - John W. Chamberlin 46 



Photograph by the author 



Solid-Color Irises ----------- e. S. J. 48 



Three Late Faithfuls -------- J. D. Whitney 50 



How to Make Dahlia Cuttings ------ M. Fuld 52 



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$5G8D. Prized 

 Sweet Pea Quartet 



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^VER in London last July in the great Flower 



Show, held at the Crystal Palace, Mrs. 



Fraser won, with this Sweet Pea Quartet, the 



one thousand pounds sterling prize for the best vase of 



blooms. There were over 10,000 exhibitors competing. 



This shows the tremendous popularity there is in 



England for these exquisite, fragrance- laden flowers. 



As a result, sweet peas will be grown over here 

 more than ever this year. This means you will surely 

 want some of the seeds of this Prize Quartet to plant 

 along with your others. It will be intensely interesting 

 in growing them, to find in their bloom the 

 excelling points that brought them into such prominence. 



There is going to be a lot of good-natured, neighborly 

 competition in growing them — a cr ^petition in the 

 pleasure of which you will want to join. 



So order your seeds early and plant them early, 

 for much of their success, as you know, depends on a good 

 deep root growth before the hot spring suns come. 



Here are the varieties in the Quartet : 



1 . Paradise Carmine — clear, lovely, carmine waved. 



2. Constance Oliver — delicate pink, suffused with cream, waved. 



3. Arthur Unwin — rose, shaded with cream, waved. 



4. Tom Bolton — dark maroon waved. 



1 packet of the above four prize winners for $.35 postpaid 

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which contains a complete description of the contest. It is 

 a beautifully illustrated book of 1 52 pages, and is a de- 

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The "tell you how" cultural directions are told in a mat- 

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Whether you buy the Quartet or not, we will be glad 

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