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COVER DESIGN: SNOWBERRY ----- Herbert Brown 



A PROPER SETTING FOR THE QUEEN OF FLOWERS 257 



Photograph supplied by E. E. Baker 

 BRINGING REMINISCENT CHARM FROM AN OLD 



WORLD GARDEN TO A GARDEN OF THE NEW 258 



Photograph by Mary H. Northend 

 A PERFECTLY HARDY NATIVE SHRUB ------ 259 



Photograph by E. I. Farrington 

 PLANT BRIEFS ---------------- 260 



Turk's Turban — The Marean Dahlias — Buddleia Eva 



Dudley — A Yellow Cosmos — The Yellow Clematis— The 



Regal Lily — Flowering Shrubs for Forcing — Nemesias — 



The Fringe Tree — Gladiolus 



lllus. by The Nathan R. Graves Co. and E. I. Farrington 

 A GARDEN THAT IS LET ALONE- - - - Bertha Scott 262 



Photographs by the author 



THE FLOWER GARDEN OF CHARM - - F.F. Rockwell 264 



GARDENING ON THE EDGE OF THE PLAINS 



Craig S. Thorns 266 



THE ROMANCE OF OUR TREES— V, THE HORSE- 

 CHESTNUT ---------- E. H. Wilson 267 



Photographs by J. Horace McFarland Co., and others 

 IS OIL A PRACTICAL GREENHOUSE FUEL? - - - - 272 



A SELF DETERMINED IRIS GARDEN - - John L. Rea 273 



Photograph and Plan by the author 

 PLANT FRUITS BY ALL MEANS ----- C. Emery 275 



Photograph by Arthur G. Eldredge 

 FROM SEEDS THE SIZE OF SAND GRAINS SPRINGS 



A WILDERNESS OF BEAUTY -------- 276 



Garden of Mrs. John Magee at Mt. Kisco, N. Y. 

 Photograph by Mattie E. Hewitt 

 THE FIRST SALADS AND GREENS -------- 278 



Photograph by E. J. Hall 

 GREENHOUSE HEATING PROBLEM - - - E. Seeger 279 

 LIME AND ITS ACTION ON THE SOIL Elmer O. Pippin 280 

 A GARDEN THAT IS LIVED IN --------- 281 



Photographs supplied by Julia Lester Dillon 

 AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS ------- 282 



THE OPEN COLUMN - - - - - - - - 283 



What They Think Abroad— A Personal Encounter With 

 Quarantine 37 — Is This the Lost Larkspur?— Iris as a 

 Shade Plant — Hastening Germination— A Californian in 

 Rebuttal— Clematis as a Vine over Shrubbery— Little 

 Known Flowering Peas— What Name for Iris?— An Oil- 

 Heated Hotbed that Works— Ants in the Garden— Using 

 Bold Foliage for Perspective— Crinum as a Hardy Plant. 

 Photographs by C. L. Meller and Frank A. Waugh 



THE MONTH'S REMINDER 286 



MAKING A HOTBED --.---------- 286 



KEEPING PEONIES HEALTHY B. C. Auien 290 



KILLING POISON IVY BY SPRAYING - - CM. Stack 292 



FIRST AID TO AN AMARYLLIS K. D. B. 296 



LENGTHENING NARCISSUS SEASON - - M. G. Kains 296 

 PLANNING FOR THE SUMMER GARDEN Leonice Price 296 

 THE NEEDS OF ST. REGIS RASPBERRY W. H. Wolg 298 

 BETTER THAN BANANAS - ------ R. E. Allen 300 



AN EARLY START IN THE FLOWER GARDEN 



Slillman H. Bingham 302 



ROUND ABOUT THE HOME PLOT 304 



FUCHSIA TRAILING QUEEN IV. hi. C. 306 



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