J. Paul Verrees 
Editorials 
Walls In and About the Garden - IE. H. Butterfield 
Photographs by A. G. Eldredge, J. M. Elliott and others 
^Making the Best of It - - - - Stephen F. Hamblin 
V. When You Have a Brook Bed 
Photographs by Henry Troth.and A. G. Eldredge 
Summer Insurance - -- -- -- -- -- - 
Canadian Yew as a Ground Cover Under Trees 
Alfred Scott Warthin 
Photographs by the author and A. G. Eldredge 
Tested Vegetable Planting Table for the South 
5 . Prentiss Baldwin 
Frank A. Waugh 12 
Putting Life Into the Garden - 
Photographs by W. Reid, H. E- Angell, H. Troth 
Under Glass — August Plans for Winter Flowers 
W. C. McCollom 
Photographs by the author 
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A. Xew American Flowering Tree - - John Dunbar 16 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 
Rare Beauties OF THE Gl.vdiolus - Montague Chamberlain 17 
Photograph by E. E. Trumbull 
The Month’s Remintier 18 
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Odds ant) Entis from Everywhere - - 
Transplanting Poppies in August — Itw on Brick — Oriental 
Poppies from Seed — The “Gardenia” Narcissus — Dahlias are 
not Inconsistent — Sweet Scented Chrj’santhemums — Fall Plant- 
ing of Gladiolus Bulblets — A Cry for New Roses — A Drainpipe 
Sundial — Formula for Delphinium “Blacks” — Weather and the 
English Bluebell — Hot Water for Cut Poppies 
Photograph by N. R. Graves 
For the South -------- J. M. Patterson 
The Readers’ Service - -- -- -- -- --26 
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