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The December Achievement Number , JO 
Double Planting Number ... .25 
How to Plan THE HOME GROUNDS 1 .00 
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HOW TO PLAN THE HOME GROUNDS 
By Samuel Parsons, Jr. 
This is a most helpful and up-to-date book at anytime 
of the year as a complete general guide to planting. 
The author is a Fellow of the Society of American 
Landscape Architects, and was for years Superinten¬ 
dent of the New York Parks. He gives practical 
directions not only for laying out the home growids, 
selection of site, the care and making of roads and 
paths, lawns , woodlands , hedges, gardens , selection 
of plants and trees, etc., but also in a second section 
he treats of the village improvements designed to ele¬ 
vate public taste, as it concerns the highways, the 
schoolhouses, the stations, and the village outdoor 
life generally. 
CONTENTS: Selection of Home Grounds; Selection of a 
House Site; Roads and Paths; Lawns; Flower Gardens; 
The Terrace; Plantations; Deciduous Trees and Shrubs’ 
Evergreen Trees and Shrubs; Hardy Herbaceous Plants; 
Aquatic Plants; Hardy Vines and Climbers; Bedding Plants; 
Pools and Streams; Woodlands; The Use of Rocks; Resi¬ 
dential Parks; Fences, Bridges, and Summer Houses; 
Plants for General Use on Home Grounds; Contracts and 
Specifications; Parks and Parkways; Churchyards and 
Cemeteries; Seaside Lawns; City and Village Squares; 
Railroad and Station Grounds. 
Size, 5 x iy 2 i pages, 249 ; illustrations, 56 ; 
binding, cloth ; price, net, $1.00 
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Is the representative American gardening magazine. 
A veritable up-to-date encyclopedia of practical hor¬ 
ticulture. It is by far the most beautiful, helpful and 
readable periodical on the subject —a constant re¬ 
minder and guide for the growing of flowers, vege¬ 
tables and fruits, in many superbly illustrated articles 
and twenty-five regular departments. 
GREAT PLANTING NUMBER 
(Ready March Fifteenth) 
With the pace set by the Double planting Number 
last April, the Great Fall Planting Number for 
October, the August Evergreen Manual and other 
special issues, it will easily be the most important 
and helpful garden publication of the year, 
“ Would not take $$0 for my April number if / could 
not get another says one man who enjoys the pleasures of 
a good garden. 
$L0© a Year; 10 Cents a Copy; double numbers, 
25 cents each, when sold separately 
“/ have learned more about practical gardening from 
thefir st numbers of THE Garden Magazine than from 
all my reading of books and horticultural magazines 
for several years.” W. E.-, Indianapolis, Ind. 
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MISS MARY E. MA.fl.TSN, Floral ParK, N@w YorK 
I enclose $1.00, for which send me The Garden Magazine (seven months), 
including the Achievement Number, Great Planting Number and other special 
issues, and How to Plan the Home Grounds (one dollar edition, 
postpaid). You will return the money to me, and I will send back 
the book and magazine at your expense if not what I expect. 
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