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*3£K££^i£* THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



June, 1912 



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The Finest of Juicy Sweet Corn 



can be grown in our 



Greenhouses all the Year 



Lord & Burnham Co. 



SALES OFFICES 



NEW YORK BOSTON 



St. James Bids. Tremont Bldg. 



PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 



Franklin Bank Bldg. Rookery Bldg. 



FACTORIE8 

 IRVINGTON, N. Y. 

 DES PLAINES, ILL. 



ALONG in dreary February when your 

 thoughts were turning toward summer 

 joys, haven't you often wished you could 

 right then and there set your teeth in a juicy 

 ear of corn such as comes from your garden ? 



Haven't you longed for some thin-skinned, meaty 

 tomatoes, picked ripe from the vines and not the 

 usual tasteless, disappointing out-of-season kinds ? 



Haven t there been times when you felt that pretty 

 much everything tasted all alike, and you wanted 

 something, you didn't know just what? 



It's plain to be seen then that you need a green- 

 house — one of our Glass Enclosed Gardens, 

 where you can have the choicest of appetizing 

 vegetables the entire year about. Yes, and 

 strawberries. 



And of course flowers — everybody wants flowers. 



How would a house like this one above suit you ? 



Sold at least a dozen like it last year. 



Send for our catalog and early make your selec- 

 tion. Then we can get the building promptly 

 under way so your indoors garden will start where 

 the outside one ends, which is decidedly the way 

 you want it. You will be interested to know we 

 have been building greenhouses for over half a 

 century. Longer than anyone in the business — 

 in fact. 



Plant for Immediate Effect 



Not for Future Generations 



Start with the largest Stock that can be secured ! It takes over twenty 



years to grow such Trees and Shrubs as we offer. 

 We do the long waiting — thus enabling you to secure Trees and Shrubs that 



give an immediate effect. Send for Spring price list. 



ANDORRA NURSERIES 8 ™ 



WM. WARNER HARPER, Proprietor 



CHESTNUT HILL, 

 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



To Encourage Gardening 



DEAR Gardening Folk: 

 I was so pleased when the postman began 

 leaving letters on my desk from boys and girls who 

 read my letter about our Garden Club last month. 

 I knew there were a great many young folks who 

 wanted to have a garden this summer and that 

 mothers and teachers were all eager to help them, 

 but I did not realize how many boys and girls 

 wanted to earn money to buy seed, plants and 

 tools until all your nice letters came to tell me. 



Our "Young People's Garden Club" is fully 

 organized now with boys and girls from many 

 states as members, and in dozens of towns you will 

 find groups of young gardeners busily intent upon 

 having better gardens than they have ever grown 

 before. Some of our boys and girls have lormed 

 neighborhood clubs under the direction of their 

 mothers or a favorite teacher and are happily at 

 work on spare ground near their homes, while boys 

 and girls who are members of school gardens are 

 joining our Club so as to earn a full purse with 

 which to help improve the school gardens. 



If you have only a small plot or even a window 

 box, it will be lots of pleasure to plant and care for 

 your favorite flowers; while if you have a nice plot, 

 you can do wonders. 



Just think, too, you can earn money to buy all the 

 seeds, plants and implements for the garden your- 

 self. And it is mighty nice to be able to earn 

 money. 



Six of our girl members in Springfield, Mass., 

 have commenced a neighborhood club, and are 

 working out a lovely idea. They have agreed 

 to make their back yards beautiful this summer, and 

 each girl is working hard to see who can earn the 

 most money with which to buy plants. 



I should like to have all my boys and girls write 

 me about their garden plans this summer. 



Here is a letter from a young gardener out in 

 Ohio: 



'" Dear Lady Greexsleeves: 



" My mother and I read your letter about the 

 Young People's Garden Club. You said you 

 wanted to help boys and girls to have gardens. 

 Well, I want to have one this year, but I have no 

 ground (our house takes it all up). I can rent for 

 very little the lot back of our house and four of my 

 chums will help me plant and take care of it if we 

 only could get enough money to do it. Miss Landis, 

 our teacher, says she'll help us plant it. Will you 

 tell us how to get enough money to do it? We 

 want to become members of your Club and will 

 thank you if you will tell us how to do so. 



Yours truly, Robert Moore." 



You may be sure that I wrote to Robert at once 

 and told him how to earn the money he and his 

 chums needed for their garden. 



You are invited to join our Club, too. Boys and 

 girls, teachers and mothers, who love "green things 

 growing" and who want to know all the wonderful 

 secrets of Mother Nature are invited to write me 

 this very hour and let me tell them all about our 

 Club. I do not want a single boy or girl left out of 

 our Club and shall hope to have your letter asking 

 for membership right away. 



Yours for a lovely garden, 

 Lady Greexsleeves, 

 Young People's Garden - Club, 

 Garden Magazine, Garden City, N. Y. 



