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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
March, 1915 
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Good News for 
Garden Lovers! 
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OT content with merely telling how to plan gardens or printing 
pictures of pretty gardens, THE CRAFTSMAN hereby an- 
nounces the most generous and practical offer ever made to 
garden-lovers: Select the kind of garden which appeals to you most, 
from the list below, and we will send you absolutely FREE, with 
$1.00 or $3.00 subscriptions as specified below, the complete material 
to make this garden a charming reality on your own grounds. The 
seeds and plants given with these offers will come from the best-known 
growers in America: Burpee, Dreer, Henderson, Thorburn, Andorra 
Nurseries, Bobbink & Atkins, Gillett, Grover, Knight & Struck, New 
England Nurseries, Weeber&Don. Full instructions for planting with each group. 
Series of Cash Prizes for the best Gardens grown from these offers. ( Full details to every subscriber ) 
Photo by Alice Boughton 
Ellen Terry’s Garden 
with Four Months’ Subscription 
to THE CRAFTSMAN . $1.00 
FREE 
YOUR CHOICE OF ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 
rn 1717 One Year’s Subscription to 
r 1\LL THE CRAFTSMAN $3.00 
YOUR CHOICE OF ANY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING: 
1. 
6. Rose Garden — 6 two-year-old plants: Hybrid Perpetuals — 
American Beauty, Baroness de Rothschild, Marshall P. 
Wilder; Climbing Roses — Cecil Brunner, Crimson Rambler, 
Dorothy Perkins. 
7. Fragrant Herbs Garden — 20 plants, two each of spear- 
mint, tarragon, hyssop, balm, thyme, sage, peppermint, 
chives, rue, lavender. 
8 . 
Beginner’s Flower Garden. 20 pkgs. of seeds: foxglove, 
baby’s breath, candytuft, poppies, cornflower, sweet peas, 
hollyhocks, larkspur, marigold, morning glory, sweet alyssum, 
mignonette, love-in-a-mist, phlox Drummondii, petunias, 
scabiosa, stocks, China pinks, Sweet William. 
2. Wild Flower Garden — 20 pkgs. of seeds: wild pinks, col- 
umbine, goldenrod, asters, flax, campanula, saxifrage, del- 
phinum, pyrethrum, Sweet William, mimulus, viola, marsh 
mallow, lobelia, lupine, evening primrose, monk’s-hood, 
black-eyed Susan, forget-me-not, larkspur. 
3. Children’s Garden — 20 pkgs. of seeds: candytuft, mignon- 
ette, nasturtium, forget-me-nots, petunias, stocks, marigold, 
poppies, morning glory, radish, lettuce, turnips, carrots, 
peas, beans, onions, cucumbers, beets, squash. 
H 4. Vegetable Garden — 20 pkgs.of seeds: Lettuce (2 varieties), 
beets, romaine, radishes (2 varieties), carrots, Swiss chard, 
parsley, spinach, turnips, parsnip, salsify, squash (summer 
and Hubbard), cucumber, leeks, okra, onion, muskmelon. 
n 5. Vines and Creepers — 20 pkgs. of seeds: gourds (dipper 
and mixed), morning and evening glory, lathyrus, balloon 
vine, Japanese hop, hyacinth beanjpink and mixed), moon- 
flower, ice plant, express vine, linaria, Allegheny vine, can- 
ary bird, wild cucumber, cobcea scandens, trailing nasturtium. 
A Suburban Lawn — a peck of grass seed, one of the most celebrated mixtures produced in America, ' sufficient to cover 
considerably more than two thousand square feet with a rich velvety lawn. FREE with one year’s subscription, $3.00. 
coupon 
To the City Garden-Lover, de- 
nied the pleasure of an outdoor 
garden, we offer FREE these 
sculptured Fern-Dishes of exquis- 
ite beauty — the circular one, at 
the left, with a four months’ sub- 
scription, $1.00; the rectang- 
ular one,, at the right, with a 
year’s subscription, $3.00 — all charges prepaid, except 30 cts. and $1.00 extra (respectively) for addresses 
west of the Mississippi. 
The Annual Garden Number of THE CRAFTSMAN (March), included in all the above subscription 
offers, will contain, among other features, the following, all illustrated in the sumptuous manner which 
has earned for THE CRAFTSMAN its international reputation: “My Father’s Garden and Mine,” by 
Julian Burroughs; “Wild Gardens,” by Wilhelm Miller; “Sculpture in the Garden,” “New England 
Wild Flowers,” “An American Japanese Garden,” “My Garden,” by Will Comfort; “Birds in the Gar- 
den,” etc. In April comes the biggest number of all, the Annual Homebuilding Number, followed by 
others equally rich and alluring to the home-lover. 
Fruit Garden — 13 trees and plants (2 to 3 years old, high- 
grade selected stock, scale-inspected): 2 apple, 1 pear, and 
2 peach trees, 2 grapevines, 6 berry bushes (red and black 
raspberries). 
9. Water Garden — 12 large roots: water lily (four varieties), 
water hyacinths (2), water arum, water lettuce, parrot’s 
feather, wild rice (1 dozen), marsh marigold, water poppy. 
10. Old-Fashioned Flower Garden — 30 large packages of 
seeds: poppies, scabiosa, phlox (dwarf and large), love-in-a- 
mist, nicotiana, marigold, larkspur, foxglove, pyrethrum, 
amaranthus, calendula, boltonia, coneflower, coreopsis, zin- 
nias, campanula, asters, nasturtiums, antirrhinum, salpi- 
glossis, forget-me-not, sweet peas, gaillardia, sweet alyssum, 
morning glory, balsams, cornflower, cosmos, mignonette. 
THE CRAFTSMAN, 
Craftsman Bldg., 6 E. 39th Street, New York 
Please enter my name for a (4 mos.) (one 
year’s) subscription to THE CRAFTSMAN, 
beginning with the Garden Number, for the 
enclosed ($r.oo) ($3.00), and send me abso- 
lutely FREE, all charges prepaid*, planting 
material for Garden No. . . Suburban Lawn, 
Fern-Dish (circular) (rectangular). 
Name 
Address 
’West of the Mississippi — 25 cts. for planting material. 30 cts. and 
fi.oo for fern dishes, must be added. Extra postage Canadian and 
Foreign Subscri] t G. M.3 
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