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T H E GARDE N M A GAZINE 
June, 191 
Make Friends Now 
WITH THESE BOOKS 
They will help you enjoy the summer 
months with an added zest 
The Worth Knowing Series 
A new series which tells just the things most of us want to know about Birds, Trees, Flowers, and Butterflies. 
A much-needed link between the larger Nature Library books and the Pocket Nature Guides. Each volume 
covers the most interesting American varieties of the subject discussed. A beautiful set of books to own, too. 
Birds Worth Knowing Butterflies Worth Knowing Trees Worth Knowing Flowers Worth Knowing 
By Neltje Blanchan By Clarence M. Weed By Julia Ellen Rogers 
192 illustrations, 144 of them in color. Each, net, $1.60 
A book with the true joy of 
gardening on every page. It 
is hard to restrain our enthu- 
siasm when speaking of 
My Garden 
By Louise Beebe Wilder 
Every Garden Magazine 
reader will enjoy its happy 
blending of the inspirational 
and the practical side of gar- 
den lore. Net. $1 .50. 
Gene Stratton-Porter 
has taken some very wonder- 
ful pictures of shy, wild song- 
birds showing really human 
expressions of fear, anger, and 
greed. They are included in 
Friends in Feathers 
The delightful record of how 
she made friends with these 
birds. (Revised and greatly 
enlarged edition of “What I 
Have Done With Birds.”) 
Net. f 3.50 . 
Adapted from Neltje Blanchan’s Works 
by Asa Don Dickinson 
How Much Time and Trouble This Set Will Save You! 
The Pocket Garden Library 
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Edited by LEONARD BARRON, editor of The Garden Magazine 
More than 800 popular garden flowers, each shown in its own wonderful natural colors; each one with descrip- 
tion and directions telling how to plant and where and when; the whole divided according to the season into 
four exquisite little volumes representing an investment of about $38,000! 
Do you wonder we claim that it is — bar none — the most remarkable, practical, and authoritative series of 
garden books ever published? 
No longer need you plan your garden without the best of aid in advance. Each of the popular new and 
old-fashioned garden flowers is here, classified according to color and carefully indexed. 
The Pocket Garden Library i§ published in the same style and size as the Pocket Nature Guides (see below) 
of which hundreds of thousands are sold every year. 
Garden Flowers of Spring 
ByiEUen Eddy Shaw 
Garden Flowers of Summer 
By Ellen Eddy Shaw 
Flexible Linen, each $1 .25 
Garden Flowers of Autumn Flowers of Winter, Indoors and Out 
By Ellen Eddy Shaw By Montague Free 
Flexible Leather, each, net, $1 .50 
SPECIAL NOTE: — The Pocket Carden Library was published May 25th. Owing to the large advance orders and the encouraging interest manifested, we earnestly advise that you do 
not delay ordering as the first edition is limited and months will be required for reprinting! Make sure of a set for this summer's garden by ordering now. 
The Pocket 
Nature Guides 
Uniform with the Pocket Garden Library 
(Size 5Jx3{) 
Land Birds. By Chester A. Reed. 
Water and Game Birds. 
By Chester A. Reed. 
Western Bird Guide. 
By Chester A. Reed. 
Flower Guide. By Chester A. Reed. 
Butterfly Guide. By Dr. W.J. Holland. 
Tree Guide. By Julia Ellen Rogers. 
How to Make Friends With Birds. 
By Niel Morrow Ladd. 
Flexible leather, each, net, $1.25 
Flexible linen, each, net, $1.00 
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Aristocrats of the Garden 
by Ernest H. Wilson, of the Arnold Arboretum 
This volume represents the result of Mr. Wilson’s years'of search 
in Europe, Asia and America for beautiful material in hardy 
shrubs and plants, suitable for American Gardens. Some 
accounts of personal experiences, particularly in his quest of the 
Dove Tree, are included. “The most important contribution to 
garden literature in recent ye^-s.” 
The edition is limited to 1200 copies. Index contains more than 
800 references to plants. 
Boxed, net, $ 5.00 . 16 full page illustrations. 
These Books are For Sale at all Bookstores 
Published by 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 
GARDEN CITY 
NEW YORK 
The Garden Bluebook 
By Leicester B. Holland 
Containing a unique chart showing color, 
soil-requirements, blooming time and the 
like for perennials, at a glance. Net, $4.00. 
Book of Garden Plans 
By Stephen F. Hamblin 
A work which enables the amatuer to ap- 
proach his garden problems from the stand- 
point of a landscape gardener. Net, $2.00. 
The American Flower Garden 
By Neltje Blanchan 
How to obtain effects desired, cultural direc- 
tions for styles in gardens, what flowers to 
use. Beautifully illustrated. Net, $1.80. 
The Bird Study Book 
By T. Gilbert Pearson 
The fundamental facts of bird study present- 
ed simply and authoritatively by the Secre- 
tary of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies. Net, $1.25. 
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