11 subscribers are requested to contribute short articles to 

 Our Garden Forum relative to their garden experiences, suc- 

 cesses and difficulties, and matters of interest pertaining to 

 unusual garden conditions, the whims of flowers, etc. 



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Editor Our Garden Journal : 



The need of a garden magazine unbiased in outlook and devoted 

 entirely to the interest of the amateur is apparent. 



We have catalogues both elaborate and stimulating, but sometimes 

 illusory. We have cyclopaedias — accurate, but ponderous, alas, in 

 form and substance. We have timely magazines controlled or in- 

 fluenced by commercial growers. But we have as yet no source of 

 inspiration and information in the form of a publication by amateurs 

 for amateurs — except the Bulletin of the Garden Club of America, 

 which is necessarily limited in scope. 



The real value of a plant or flower is often best estimated by a per- 

 son who has nothing to gain or lose in the full presentation of plain 

 facts. In addition, the amateur has the opportunity through greater 

 leisure to note with calm impartiality many things which might 

 escape the hurried though trained eye of the nurseryman. 



The development of a larger horticulture in this country has here- 



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