March, 19 IS 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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•iggei' Garden 

 A Better Garden 

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Among Our Garden Neighbors 



The Enemy at the Door — Munitions of Defence — About 

 Types in Root Crops — An Improved Form of Bird Bath 

 — Surely Grow These Things — We Always Aim to Hit — 

 Making Paper Pots — Confusion in Catalogues — Dis- 

 cussing The Garden Magazine — Quality in Sweet Corn 

 — Plants Wanted — Why Burn Insect Nests? — A De- 

 cidedly Useful Tool — Tub Gardening — Wintering Can- 

 terbury Bells — A New Cantaloupe — Yellow Tomatoes 

 Have a Friend — Hunnemannia from Seed — The Sporting 

 Chance. (Eight Illustrations.) 



The Month's Reminder, March, 1918 - - - 69 



Putting It Simply, for the Beginner - - - 70 



Garden "Movies" No. 3 - - W. C. McCollom 71 

 Newer Climbing Roses of Merit 



(Photographs by the author) E. I. Farrington 72 



What's New in Vegetable and Flower Seeds 



By the Editorial Staff 74 



The Patriotic Garden --------- 76 



Calling the Class of 1918 - - Kate B. Burton 76 



A War-Time Garden - - - Anna M. Burke 76 



Planting tables by the author 



Pruning for Fruit This Year - M. G. Kains 78 



Photographs supplied by the author 



Are We "All at Sea" in Potato Culture? 



Photographs by the author W. C. McCollom 80 



The Succession Problem in California 



Photographs by the author Sidney B. Mitchell 82 



A Little Intensive Gardening - A. A. Knock 86 



Patriotic Sweet Peas for July 4th 



Mrs. R. W. Walters 



Stump age is Valuable Now ------- 



Starting Seeds ln a Coldframe ----- 



Eggplant as an Amateur's Crop 



86 



E. I. Farrington 

 -James M acfarlanc 



Can Any One Beat This? 



Photograph by the author 



Varietal Differences en Rhubarb? - M. G. K. 94 



Society Notes and News ------- 96 



For the South - - - - - J.M. Patterson 100 



Putting a Push Into the War Garden - - - 104 



Bee Keeping for Gardeners - E. I. Farrington 88& 



LEONARD BARRON. Editor 



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