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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



April, 1913 



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We have been making fine china for forty years. 

 The trade-mark name "Homer Laughlin" on the 

 underside of a dish is our guarantee to you that it 

 will not chip at every touch; that it will not break 

 readily; that it will resist the attacks of table 

 cutlery and that its beautiful glaze will not become 

 marred by fine black lines, due to "crazing." 



Send for The China Book — an artistic brochure 

 in color telling how good china is . made. It is 

 sent free. After reading it you will want the 

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NEWELL, W. VIRGINIA. 



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Hams and Bacon 



A long way to go for ham and 

 bacon, you say? Not for such 

 choice Hams and Bacon as Milo 

 C. Jones prepares out on The Farm in 

 Wisconsin — under the personal supervision of 

 himself or his family. 



Fancy young stock raised on a milk-and-corn 

 diet; seasoned, spiced and cured by an old Ver- 

 mont rule — smoked over fires of green hickory 

 — it's worth some effort these days to get real 

 country products. 

 Most likely your grocer can supply you. If not, 

 write us direct and prompt shipment will be 

 made. I do really guarantee satisfaction. 



MILO C. JONES, care of Jones Dairy Farm 



Box 635, Fort Atkinson, 



Jefferson County, 



Wisconsin 



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The Lawns of Old England 



are famous for their wonderful perfection and dur- 

 ability. Such lawns may be had here if real 



Imported English Lawn 

 Grass Seed 



is used. This seed is the result of centuries of selection. No 

 weed seeds or coarse grasses in it. Hardy and fine in texture 

 and beautiful in color. We have handled this seed for more 

 than one hundred years. We import the choicest quality 

 only, with seed for shady places a specialty. 



Write for free Booklet 

 "How to Seed and Keep a Beautiful Lawn" 



BARWELL'S AGRICULTURAL WORKS 



Madison and Sand Sts., WAUKEGAN, ILL. 

 Established at Leicester. England, in 1 800 



recorder shall keep a list of both and shall bring 

 the same to all meetings that members may refer 

 to it." 



The younger clubs naturally profit by such wise 

 arrangements and suggestions as these. Thus it is 

 not strange to see rules on these general lines in the 

 book of the Garden Club of Long Island, whose 

 membership seems to centre about Lawrence and 

 which, though in existence only since September of 

 1912, has the astonishing membership "already 

 yet so soon" as an old German gardener of my 

 acquaintance was wont to say, of ninety-one! This 

 club meets twice a month in summer. Miss Rose 

 Standish Nichols has spoken to them on " Gardens," 

 Miss Averill on "Japanese Flower Arrangement," 

 and Miss Coffin on "Color and Succession in the 

 Flower Garden." 



Now for the club in which I am most at home — 

 the Garden Club of Michigan. This was patterned 

 mainly upon that of Philadelphia, and I here ac- 

 knowledge with renewed gratitude our debt to that 

 organization which was most gracious in its assis- 

 tance; and to the New Canaan Garden Club, also 

 a friend in need. Our club, like the Philadelphia 

 one, has sixty members. We have had, during 

 our first year's existence, seventeen meetings — 

 with lectures, upon such subjects as roses, new 

 flowers, gardens of England, necessities and lux- 

 uries in garden books, color in the garden, the mak- 

 ing of an old-fashioned garden, the grouping of 

 shrubs and the planning and planting of home 

 grounds. "We have learned," writes our secretary, 

 "much about gardens, gardeners and gardening; 

 also that even garden clubs do not grow of them- 

 selves!" 



For our club I have prepared from time to time 

 a list of color combinations in flowers, simple ones, 

 easily produced — a list of my own preferences in 

 seedsmen and plantsmen, including specialists in 

 this country and abroad, drawn from dealings of 

 twenty years past. If a seedsman sends me a 

 specially good sheet of cultural directions for a 

 given flower I do not hesitate to beg at once for 

 sixty for our next meeting. Little piles of these 

 things on the secretary's table do wonders in 

 shortening the hard road to good gardening. We 

 have, as a club joined two or three plant societies, 

 and during the coming year we hope to help in 

 some public horticultural improvement in Detroit, 

 for in that city lies the balance of our membership. 

 The annual dues of our club, which were two 

 dollars, have now been raised to five. The dues 

 of the various clubs average this sum; though in 

 one club the subscription is fifteen. In all clubs 

 the meetings are held as a rule in the houses or 

 gardens of members. 



Expeditions are undertaken by some of the clubs, 

 journeys to fine gardens, public or private. This 

 is as it should be. In England it is a common 

 sight, that of horticultural societies going about, 

 en masse, forty or fifty strong, inspecting gardens. 

 Many of these must knock daily at Miss Jekyll's 

 "close-paled hand-gate." I would suggest to 

 members in the eastern seaboard that they avail 

 themselves of the beauties of the Arnold Arboretum 

 in lilac time, or in mid- June — and never without 

 a note-book, for, as at Kew, every tree and shrub 

 is labeled to perfection. 



Other clubs there are of which mention should 

 be made, as the Garden Club of Warrenton, 

 Va., an offshoot of the Philadelphia Club; the 

 Garden Club of Princeton, N. J.; "The Weed- 

 ers" of Haverford, Pa.; the club at New Ro- 

 chelle, N. Y.; one forming at San Antonio, Tex.; 

 and a second in Michigan, about to be launched 

 in Detroit. And so the valuable, the delightful 

 work goes on! 



The Garden Clubs so faultily described in these 

 pages have been more than generous in helping 

 me in the congenial task. Nevertheless the best 

 Garden Club is probably yet to be formed; as it 

 can now be a composite — adopting the more 

 important and practical plans of those already in 

 existence, and starting with the benefit of their 

 experience. If I have here shown adequately the 

 power, the force for good in gardening which the 

 rapid upspringing of these clubs most certainly 

 constitutes, I shall have done what I set out to do. 

 And if one more club shall be organized in con,- 

 sequence of what has here been chronicled, then I 

 shall have done more, much more, than I had any 

 hope of doing. 



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