FEBRUARY 19 15. 
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Start Seeds in Hotbeds in the South - J . M. Patterson 4 
Buying and Keeping Tools - - - - F. F. Rockwell 6 
The Readers’ Service ----------- 10 
Ten Years - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- n 
The Landscaping of Peridot - - - - Fletcher Steele 12 
Plans by the author 
A Three-Tier Herbaceous Border - B.Y . Morrison 15 
Photographs by N. R. Graves; plans by the author 
Planting a Border for the Indian Summer 
Plan by the author Robert S. Stur levant 17 
Planning Features for Garden Special Effects 
Plans by the author Stephen F. Hamblin 19 
I. A Formal Garden for Fragrance IIL Entrance Planting 
II. A Small Rose Garden IV. A Garden of Dwarf Shrubs 
Evergreens as a Screen on a Hillside W. H. Richie 23 
Plan by the author 
Planning a Fruit Garden to Fit - - J. R. Mattern 26 
Plans by author; photographs by H. Troth and A. G. Eldredge 
The Month’s Reminder - -- -- - 27 
Photographs by H. N. Porch and Charles Jones 
Growing Exhibition Quality Sweet Peas William Gray 28 
Photographs by J. H. Pepper, Charles Jones and G. W. Kerr 
Planting Tables for the Vegetable G.arden 
A. E. Wilkinson 30 
Seed Sowing Table for the Flower Garden 
F . F. Rockwell 31 
Hardy Perennials for Landscape Use William H. Richie 32 
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Lice on Asters - Mrs . T . C . Stephens 34 
The “New” Garden Magazine - - - P . T . Barnes 34 
Lice on Lettuce -------- Harold Clarke 34 
Rhubarb in Winter ------ Henry S . Conard 34 
Photograph by the author 
What Ailed the Asters ? - - - - W alter Greenleaf 34 
Select Your Potato Seed ----- E . L . D . S . 34 
Gardening on the Seashore ----- W. G. W . 34 
A New Mulching Material ------- C. H . 34 
How Not to Plant Dahlias and Gladiolus F . R . Perkins 34 
A Hill of Roses --------- C . W . Post 35 
Photograph by the author 
How to Make a Radish Bed - - - Edgar IE Trick 35 
Apples for Pennsylvania ------ Harold Clarke 35 
A Decade’s Development - - -- -- -- --36 
An Alaskan Flower Garden - - - W . C. Blanchard 38 
Photographs by the author 
A New Idea in Tree Labels - - - - -\Fred Haxton 40 
Photograph by the author 
“Landscape Extension” in the Middle West W . Miller 44 
Suggestions for the Home Table Effie M . Robinson 46 
The Rose Society’s Trial Garden ------- 48 
Tuberous Begonias from Seed - - W . C. McCollom 48 
Photograph by Nathan R. Graves 
English Rockeries ------ Eleanor L . Wolcott 50 
The Opalescent Apple ------ Waiter A . Dyer 52 
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