VENTURA: BY-THE-SEA 95 
AN EXTRAORDINARY OFFER. 
sar A MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM FOR A $6.50 ORDER. 
“Country Life in America” 
Subscription price $3.00. For a $6.50 order for plants, seeds, ete., by ex- 
press, we will give this superb magazine for one year, and 50c extra in plants, 
or $10.00 worth in all for $6.50. “Country Life in America” is printed on 
the best of paper, exquisitely illustrated with numerous pictures of country 
homes, out-of-door sports, flowers, trees and gardens, birds, insects and ani- 
mals, and filled with the best reading matter, it is without doubt a peer in its 
line. We willsend the same order by mail, if desired, but do not pay charges 
with this premium. We quote the well-known florist Robert Scott in a late 
number of The Florist Review of Chicago: 
“T ean not refrain, although foreign to what this article is suppesed to be, from asking you to 
subscribe for and read “Country Life in America.” It came into existence only last November. 
It will elevate your thoughts, educate you broadly about the beauties of everything ‘out of | 
doors. The silent, majestic tree, the trout that eludes your fly, the bird of the air and the quad- 
ruped of the prairie and wood and mountain are brought to your close acquaintance, as well as 
the flowers and plants that supply us with a livelihood. Its prose articles are poetry and its 
poems are original gems. Its numbers should be on the table of every man or woman that owns 
a home, and it is one more factor that will lead our people to seek the fresh air and environment 
of the country and to make these homes beautiful in their surroundings. I did not intend te 
digress so widely, and am not paid to obtain subscriptions for this grand and beautiful “ Country 
Life,” but I am just new chock-full of its inspirations and can’t help it.” 
Gardening Number of “‘Country Life in America.” 
March, 1903, which is to set a new top notch in beauty for ‘‘ Country 
Life in America’’ and for every other American magazine. 
We also give prospectus for March number of “Country Life in America:” 
CONTENTS. 
Frontispiece from Home Flower Garden, ete.; The Home Flower and Vegetable Garden, L. H. 
Bailey; Making a Japanese Garden in America; The Modest Formal Garden; School Gardens; 
The Vacant-Lot Question, or Village Improvement Gardening; New Old-fashioned Hardy Gar- 
dening; The Sargent Estate, L. H. Bailey; Double-Page Sargent Estate; How to Grow Plants, 
L. H. Bailey: How to Develop the Home Grounds, Egan; The Back-Yark Garden; Practical Gar- 
den Matters from Practical People, Notes, Suggestions, ete. 
To be included in these text pages or in the single column matter this month which is devoted 
to gardening anu nursery matters: Vegetables for Five; Window Boxes; Vines for Walls and 
Arbors; Beautifying the Factory; The Street Fence; Farm Gardens, ete., ete. 
INDEX. 
Directions for ordering....... Cover 2 Seeds Plants 
Theodosia B. Shepherd Co......... ZEPAStroplbatumin wes 6 86 
To Friends and Flower Lovers..... Shep ambOOs oie soe “8.79 
Seeds Plantsi|PBaskets: 22.0 os.2 fan. 93 
PAN bIOT rs enna i SHS OS OM ae Ase eee 8 33-49 
Aapamit nuisiiis cies or 8 SICH Ese US ee he le erent te 9 
TNE ON oes Wane & eet ee 7 OD ASBISMOMIAY ee. 5 cea. 9 73-74 
SAN Cy eens recog tay 5-90 Si} Bougainvillea 22.5. 28-74-92 
PNIO CS raced ete eect 8-91 SAO UNA TCA eet ear 8 
AMITEV AVIS C855 6 SH SO-Sio FP Browaliliass..o skelae ae 9 
JNM NEMOVOSIEY Bs 5sscedou COPS TAM GA x teste. eee, 22 75 
ATA OMU ars ee SOsCACHIS a essa senor on: 90 85-90 
ANUNCIO OAM os 6 Os Soe Sak Calendula. scm 118) 
ANUS ONOMEA an eis 8 SOAR@ a cape eoy te nee Orel He, we, 
INTEL. Soo G8 Ge ey ABO LTV A ae care at a ecceuees teeae Se 128-409-5025 
STC LOUISE eerie ecko: 5 CARO: aieirse ane ikaw 78 
HATUIMC OAvee nie Chere alee. 77 | California Poppy. ....15-16 
AS DARAL Sen eeowe Guns 8 aR OAUMOPSISiee eye ens 3 lb 
INGVONGUISTECE) loo Se he oa 3y74)| | AORRNOWARUIEE “Sa tise meas 1133 
ENS UCI es aes me easbeeisten 5-7 Cardiospermum ..... 12 
