May. 1918 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



175 



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Cover Design— Sow the Seeds of Victory 



James Montgomery Flagg 



PAGE 



Among Our Garden Neighbors - - - - - -177 



America's Awakening — Save — A Handy Trellis for 

 Viney Vegetables — Quality in Rhubarb — Preserving 

 Wooden Labels — Use Postal Cards? — Prefers the Easy 

 Way — Tent Caterpillar Destroyer — Coboea Scandens 

 as a Porch Climber — The Soy Bean — The New Deutzia — 

 Golden Bell Flower Buds Killed— Field Mice and Bulbs 



Taking the Beginner into Confidence - - 180 



The Garden "Movies" No. 5 - W. C. McCollom 181 



The Month's Reminder, May, 1918 - - - - 182 



The Patriotic Garden --183 



Making a Nation of Cities Garden 



Charles Lathrop Pack 183 

 Photographs supplied by the National War Garden 

 Commission 



The War Garden in Action - - - A. Kmhm 186 



Photograph by the author 



Getting the Jump on the Garden Huns 



F. F. Rockwell 187 

 Photographs supplied by the H. H. Charles Company 



Coming The Fruit Drive - - - M.G. Kains 189 



Spring Songs of the Garden Warrior 



M. G. Kains 192 



Keep the Home Pot Boiling - - - A.Kruhm 192 



Getting the Most Out of Dahlias 



Orrin E. Dunlap 193 

 Photographs by the American Mutual Film and author 



Varieties of Gladiolus for the Novice 



Montague Chamberlain 194 



Keeping Up Appearances in the Fiower Border 



Louise B. Wilder 195 



Books of the Hour ---------- 196 



For the South J.M. Patterson 198 



Dividing Perennials in the Spring 



E. I. Farrington 200-b 



Society Notes and News -------- 202 



Fertilizers in the Garden - - - - - L.B. 202 

 Drainage and Moisture in Flats - W. L. W. 204 



Photograph by the author 



Cottage Tulips "Breaking" - - E.S. Johnson 206 



Things to Remember in Planting Evergreens 



W.J.Morrill 208 



A Sextette of Superior Vegetables Buford Reid 210 



LEONARD BARRON. Editor 



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