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Cover Design — Foxgloves and Sweet William 



The Months' Reminder ----------- page 157 



Pi anting Your Own Vine and Fig Tree - Frances Duncan 



Photographs by the author and H. Troth 



Perennials Most Worth Planting for Flowers 



Sherman R. Duffy 



Photographs by the author 



The Cost of Making a Perennial Bed - Werner Boecklin 



Photograph by the author 



Our Native Shrubs and What May Be Done With Them 



Norman Taylor 

 The Artistic Way of Using Shrubs - Wilhelm Miller 



Photographs by N. R. Graves and others 



How to Choose Annuals for Cutting - Adolph Kruhm 



Photographs by the author and N. R. Graves 



Five Years' Experience With Dwarf Fruit Trees 



G. M. Stack 

 Combination Gardens for Small Plots - M. R. Conover 

 The Strawberry Bed to Plant this Spring W. H. Jenkins 

 The Child's Garden ------- Ellen Eddy Shaw 



Photograph by Susan B. Sipe 



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--------------- George Oakes Stoddard 



Readers' Experience Club ---------- pace 180 



Awards in the Children's Garden Contest ----- 182 



Grape Vine Roots that "Grow Up" - Julian Burroughs 184 



Photograph by the author 



An Exact Method for Planting Fruit Trees - - W. D. 186 



Photograph by the author 



The Fall Fruiting Strawberries - - - W. II. Jenkins 

 A Home-made Plant Table - - - - - - W. N. McV. 



Photograph by the author 



Gladiolus in Georgia ------- Thomas J. Steed 



Photograph by the author 



Getting Character into the Garden Warren H. Manning 

 Plant Your Onions Now - - -r - - F. F. Rockwell 

 From Adirondack Gardens ------- H. S. A. 



Photograph by Arthur G. Eldredge 



Suggestions for Very Littlest Plots - E. L. D. Seymour 

 How to Have Muskmelons All Summer - - - M. T. R. 

 Plumose Asparagus from Seed - - - Clarence M. Weed 

 Successful Moving of Large Trees - - - - C. L. Metier 



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" Hardy Garden Flowers " 



The illustrations suggest many pleasing and varied 

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"The Iris Catalog" 



Unique in that it is, so far as we know, the only book 

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" Flowering Trees and Shrubs " " Biltmore Nursery Catalog " 



Many of the best of the trees and shrubs producing 

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A guide to the cultivated plants of North America. 

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