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The Garden Magazine, June, 1921 
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THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE 
CONTENTS 
COVER DESIGN: IRIS Fred.G. Mories 
PACE 
IRIS IN ITS NATURAE SETTING 231 
Photograph supplied by R. S. Sturtevant 
ILEX OPACA - 232 
Photograph, courtesy of Clarence Fowler 
DOROTHY PERKINS ROSE 233 
WHAT AMERICA HAS DONE FOR THE IRIS - John C. IVister 234 
Photographs supplied by the author, N. R. Graves Co., Mattie 
E. Hewitt, Bachrach Studios and others 
THE GARDEN INDOORS AND OUT, II— THE GARDEN AND 
THE LIVING ROOM - -- -- -- -- Agnes Bauman 240 
Illustrations supplied by the author, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Car- 
vahlo Bros., G. W. Harting, Danersk Furniture Co., and 
Charles R. Yandell 
PLANTS FOR THE PORCH Henry Gibson 244 
Photograph by N. R. Graves Co. 
PATCHWORK. Poem - -- -- -- - Louise Ayres Garnett 245 
WHAT JULY PROMISES THE READER - - 245 
WHY "NIP” MUSKMELON VINES? J. W. Lloyd 246 
HOWTO KNOW YOUR IRISES A.C.Arny 247 
Photograph, courtesy of Holm & Olson, Inc. 
HARMONY OF FLOWER AND VASE - - - 249 
Photographs by Mattie E. Hewitt, Jessie Tarbox Beals, Fulper 
Co., J. E. Caldwell & Co., and Copenhagen Royal Porcelain and 
Danish Arts 
A GARDEN FOR THE DISPLAY OF IRISES Louise Beebe M ilder 253 
Plan by the author 
THE OLD GARDENS OF PENNSYLVANIA. VIII— AWBURY 
ARBORETUM ------- - John IV. Harsbberger 255 
Photographs by Roger B Whitman 
IRISES IN THE CALIFORNIA GARDEN - - Sydney B. Mitchell 257 
Photographs supplied by the Moneta Iris Gardens, B. Y. Mor- 
rison and A. A. Ruark 
PLAYTHINGS FOR THE ADVENTUROUS IGNORANT 
... Alice Rathbone 259 
Photographs by the author, O. F. Browning and E. J. Wallis 
BEANS THAT DON’T BLIGHT Adolpb Krubm 262 
Photograph supplied by the author 
AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS 263 
Photographs supplied by Olmstead Bros., Prentice Sanger, and 
others 
BOSTON’S FLOWER FETE 268 
Photographs by George Oakes Stoddard 
THE MONTH’S REMINDER 269 
THE DOUBLY SERVICEABLE DASHEEN - - - H. S. Tillotson 272 
GROW A COMMUNITY FLOWER Jane Leslie Kijt 280 
THE BEST WAY TO FEED PLANTS 5 . L. Bastin 282 
CHILDREN’S GARDENS Dead S. George 284 
PORCH FURNISHINGS - Dorothea D. DunUa 286 
TWO VALUABLE SHRUBS FOR CALIFORNIA GARDENS 
Leila B. Stapleton 288 
Leonard Barron, Editor 
VOLUME XXXIII, No. 4 
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