December, 1 9 1 2 



THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



181 





DECEMBER, 1912 



Cover Design — Evergreen hawthorn {Pyracatitha coccinea, var. Lalandi) ------------- M. J. G. Buerger 



PAGE PAGE 



------------- 206 



The Month's Reminder ------------ 1S7 



The Romance or Our Hawthorns - - - - John Dunbar 189 



Photographs by Nathan R. Graves and H. Troth 



The Spirit of the Garden ------ Ida M. H. Starr 193 



Photographs by W. C. Benson 



The Shellbark, the Best Nut for the Farm 



Archibald Rutledge 195 



Photographs by the author 



Sixty Suggestions for New Gardens - - Wil helm Miller 197 



Photographs by A. G. Eldredge, H. Troth and Ella M. Boult 



Annual " Round-up" of Gardening Achievements - - - 201 



Photographs by the authors 



Readers' Experience Club ----------- 203 



Photograph by W. S. Kimball 



The Child's Garden ------- Ellen Eddy Shaw 204 



Photographs by A. F. Loomis, Mabel J. Musser and others 



The Little Farm ------------- 



Photograph by W. S. Kimball 



The Crop That Grows in Winter - - - - Hollister Sage 207 

 Roses ------------- A. Van Gelder 208 



Photograph by A. G. Eldredge 



Two Hardy Shrubs --------- Lou E. Hurst 212 



Photographs by the author 



What To Do Now in the South - - - - Thomas J. Steed 214 



Narcissus in Twenty Days ------ F. E. Mel. 214 



In a Connecticut Garden ---------- C. 216 



"When Doctors Differ" ------------ 219 



"Dehorning" Apple Trees ------ R. E. Rogers 220 



Photographs by the author 



Cheating the Bookbinder - ■■ - - - - - C. F. Barber 222 



Photograph by the author 



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Macatawa— The Big New 

 Everbearing Blackberry 



Plants begin to bloom June 1 st and 

 keep up producing flowers and fruit 

 all summer and until frost stops growth. 



Berries start to ripen about 1st of 

 July, and can be picked right up to 

 October. Yields enormous crops cf 

 great big berries — see the picture. 

 They are the largest berries known. 

 Bring 30 cents a quart or more. 



I originated this berry by crossing 

 Giant Himalaya Berry and Eldorado 

 Blackberry. Macatawa has good 

 qualities of both. Fruit sweet — even 

 when green — coreless, almost seedless. 

 Plants begin to bear in first year and 

 give big crops in second year. Macatawa Blackberry is perfectly 

 hardy. It went through the hard winter of 1911-12 in an exposed 

 position, without freezing. 



Try This Great New Blackberry 



I want berry growers everywhere to try this grand new kind — bet- 

 ter and bigger than anything they have had before, and more profit- 

 able. All who saw it in 1912 were amazed, and ordered plants. I 

 can't sell more than six plants to any one person. Plants $1 each, 

 or $5 for six. 



Send today for my fine 1913 Berrydale Berry Book- It shows pictures of 

 Macatawa and other gocd and new berries, and lists all the standard kinds that are 

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A. Mitting, Berrydale Experiment Gardens 



Garden Avenue Holland, Michigan 



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