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Edwin Levick 
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The Month’s Reminder 
The Charming Hardy Primulas 
Photographs by Arthur G. Eldredge 
H. S. Adams 
Getting Fruit in the Garden - - - J. R. Matter n 
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The Square Corner Lot 
Ruth Dean 
How Everybody Can Have Lilies - - H. E. Gilkey 
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Keeping the Peonies in Health 
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H.H. Whetzel 212 
A Hundred Native Perennials for the Wild Garden 
Norman Taylor 
Odds and Ends from Everywhere 
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Photographs by Edwin Levick 
Gardening for Young Folks - - Ellen Eddy Shaw 
Roberta of Roseberry Gardens - Frances Duncan 
The Rose Bug Routed at Last - - W . H. Jenkins 
Pruning and Feeding Roses - - - - - IE G. R. 
Special Tools That Lighten Labor F. F. Rockwell 
The Busiest Month for the Southern Gardener 
J. M. Patterson 
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