THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



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WITH this issue (which begins the thirtieth 

 volume) The Garden Magazine assumes 

 a changed appearance and new size — the 

 number of text pages is increased at least 

 fifty per cent. Taking advantage of the 

 opportunity thus presented the illustrations are on a more 

 luxurious scale than hitherto, and it is the intention of the 

 editors to maintain a high standard in portraying the best 

 in garden art, in garden design, and in garden material. The 

 increased and widely spreading interest in the garden in 

 America demands a broader presentation than has been de- 

 sirable in the past. 



In the effort to picture the best work in garden making 

 and the most fascinating developments of special features, 

 or of successful cultivation, the interest and active coopera- 

 tion of the reader are invited. The editors will be glad to 

 consider for publication photographs of garden scenes, in- 

 teresting plants, etc., of a type similar to what is used in 

 this month's issue. 



American garden art is now finding itself — art as apart 

 and distinct from craftsmanship. Of all things that surround 

 us or form part of our homes the gardens ought to be the 

 most natural and most beautiful because, as was pointed out 

 long ago by Mr. William Robinson, that famous champion 

 of nature in gardens, we there deal with the actual beauties 

 of nature — themselves, and not the mere representations of 

 them. That is quite true, and yet we have here in America 

 bordered dangerously on the narrowing verge of superim- 

 posed fads in garden making— the one color fad, and the 

 open lawn, or no fence fad, etc., etc., all of which are but the 

 misdirected efforts of well intentioned energy. 



But so we progress, and we learn to make gardens that 

 afford naturalistic habitats for the plants. The march is 

 ever onward as soon as we cease to labor under mistaken 

 limitations, whether these be of fact, or fad, or fancy. There 

 are no actual limitations to this great and most plastic of 

 arts; why, therefore, impose any? 



Features to 

 Come 



I AST month we announced the 

 *-* return to our pages of Mr. 

 Ernest H. Wilson, Assistant 

 Director of the Arnold Arbor- 

 etum, who has but recently returned from another extended 

 journey of plant hunting in China, Korea, and Japan. Mr. 

 Wilson will contribute a series of articles dealing with the 

 stories and romance of many of our most popular garden 

 plants, telling how they came to us, and the stories of their 

 introducers. The first article will probably appear in the 

 October issue. Among other features soon to appear are: 



Mr. W. R. Dykes, the greatest living authority on Iris, 

 has written an article on his special delights. 



An appreciation of the work of that most illustrious gar- 

 dener, William Robinson, the apostle of the modern garden, 

 will be written by an American landscape gardener, and will 

 be illustrated by photographs of Mr. Robinson's own garden 

 at Gravetye, specially communicated for that purpose. 



Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth has written a delightful 

 poetic reverie on " My Garden in Verdun. " 



"Texture in Landscape Planting," is the subject of which 

 Miss Theodora Kimball writes, with pictures. Miss Kimball 

 is Librarian of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture 

 and joint author with Professor Vincent Hubbard of "An 

 Introduction to the Study of Landscape Design." 



Dr. John W. Harshberger, of the University of Pennsyl- 

 vania, who has made a close study of the historic gardens of 

 that state has prepared a series of brief articles which will 

 begin shortly. These noted Arboreta of Pennsylvania have 

 much to do with the beginnings of gardens in America — 

 there are for example, those of Bartram, who was a pioneer 

 plant collector, and of Marshall, the author of the first Amer- 

 ican book of botany. 



In next issue will appear a study of sculpture groups for 

 the garden and their proper disposal by Count Jean de Strel- 



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