February, 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



Cover Design: An Early Start - 





Herbert Brown 



PAGE 



9 



Among Our Garden Neighbors- ----- 



Facts About the Seed Supply — Flower Gardening in 

 War Times — The Sinews of War — Hastening Germina- 

 tion of Hard Seeds — Help! Help! Rhododendron Color 

 — Urge Daylight "Using" — Here It Is Again — Winter 

 Protection for Biennials — Canterbury Bells and Fox- 

 gloves in Winter — -Grafting Cactus. 



The Month's Reminder -------- t 2 



Garden "Movies" No. 2 



W. C. McCollom and A. Kruhm 13 

 Simple Chat for the Beginner ------ 14 



Early Plants for the Paying Garden 



Photographs by W. C. McCollom F. F. Rockwell 15 



The Patriotic Garden ---------16 



Planning to Set Out Fruit Trees ----- 16 



Photographs by Frederick Rutter and Wm. H. Sanford 



The Chronicle of a 191 7 War Garden 



Raphael Semmes Payne 18 

 Photographs by the author 



Raise a Pig! ------------ iq 



Photograph by J. C. Allen 



Gardening on a "Machine-to-Win-the-War" 

 Basis ---------- A. Kruhm 20 



Illustrated by Photographs 



Two Chinese Deutzias of Merit 



H. Horace McFarland 21 

 Photographs by J. Horace McFarland Company 



Origin of Some Hybrids of Deutzia 



Alfred Render 22 

 Combining Beauty and Comfort With Stern 

 Utility ------ Stephen F. Hamblin 23 



Plans by the author 



Sweet Peas and Snapdragons - - G. W. Kerr 25 



Photographs by the author 



Laying the Bugaboo of Disease W. H. Rankin 28 



Maps by the author 



The Leaf Blister Mite on Pear and Apple 

 Foliage ------------- 29 



What Kind of Soil Have You Got? 



(Photographs by the author) A . E. Wilkinson 30 



California Department — Sowing for Summer 



Flowers ------- John Y. Beaty 32 



For the South -----------34 



Club and Society News --------38 



War Garden Experiences and Wisdom - - - 38 

 Everbearing Strawberries for the First 

 Fruitless Summer - - - - - - H. A.M. 40 



A Yellow Garden ------ M. C. K. 42 



The New Japanese Artichokes E. I. Farrington 46 

 Different Varieties of Beans E. S. Johnson 46 

 Remembering Our Native Nuts 



Archibald Rutledge 50 

 Making a Little Go a Long Way - A.H.M. 52 

 The Art of Sowing Seed --------54 



Trees and Shrubs ----- Wm. H. Judd 56 



LEONARD BARRON. Editor 



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 Los Angeles: 412 W. 6th St. 

 F. N. DOUBLEDAY, President 

 ARTHUR W. PAGE, 

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 Vice-Presidents 



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This house of Miss L. R. Edgar's at Newport, R. I., is radically different 

 from the one below 



GREENHOUSES 



A Vital Point You Might Overlook 



IOOKING casually over the fence at a neigh- 

 j bor's greenhouse, it may seem to you quite 

 like many others you have seen. 



But should you take the time to compare the 

 kind we build, with other builds, you would be 

 surprised at the difference. 



If you would then go a step farther and accept 

 an invitation to visit some of our houses, with one 

 of our experts, you would be still more surprised 

 at the additional differing features of importance 

 he would point out. 



With greenhouses, quite like anything else you 

 buy, it's not what you pay for it that is the im- 

 portant thing — but what you get for what you pay. 



Will you accept an invitation to visit some 

 of our house: ? 



Do you want the new catalogue ? 



Hitching* °^ G>nipaiT 



General Offices and Factory — Elizabeth, N. J. 



NEW YORK 

 1170 Broadway 



BOSTON 

 Tremont* Building 



Aside from its larger size and different work room, this one looks practically the 

 same as the one above. Both are our houses. Still, one of them is better than 

 the other. Which would you say is the best? 



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