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The Garden Magazine, April, 1923 
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Congratulations 
to the General Feder¬ 
ation of Women’s Clubs . 
Your President’s endorsement of National Garden 
Week has inaugurated one more of those great social 
service movements for which your organization stands. 
We see visions of all the world gardening together 
while the implements of war rust. 
John Lewis Childs spent a busy lifetime building 
up the gardens of America. 
We intend to be a live part of “Garden Week” of 
April 22 nd and here is our offer. 
Specialties Qualified to Make Garden Week the 
Beginning of a Highly Successful Garden Year 
A. —A collection of flowering bulbs such as Gladioli, Cannas, 
Dahlias, embracing the choicest and best known standards 
—all in quantities sufficient to make America one vast 
flower garden. 
B. —Well balanced and choice assortment of vegetables des¬ 
tined to make returns bigger from gardens conducted for 
profit. Childs’ strains of vegetables continue to give com¬ 
plete satisfaction to the most exacting garden hobbyists. 
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C. —A stock of flower seeds embracing every worth-while class 
in varieties both popular and rare, suitable for gardens in all 
soils and sections. Childs’ Chinese Woolflower, Giant 
Kochia and many others testify to the popularity of Childs’ 
flower seeds. 
Childs’ Catalogue— 
Your Guide for National Garden Year 
Will be gladly mailed to every member of the General Federation 
of Women’s Clubs, Garden Clubs, etc. upon request. Our Home 
and School Catalogue not only tells the children what 
to plant and how to plant, but gives plans for little 
gardens which will delight you. They may be had in 
quantities of ten to twenty-five on request. Our Land¬ 
scape Department stands ready to assist in the de¬ 
velopment of any community garden or children’s 
garden ideas. 
APRIL, 1923 
THE GARDEN 
MAGAZINE 
CONTENTS 
COVER DESIGN: "WHEN APRIL LAUGHS” - - Maurice Day 
PAGE 
THREE GARDENS OF MERIT SHOWN BY THE ARCHI¬ 
TECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK.101 
Photographs hv Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Harry 
G. Healy, and R. V. Smutny 
A TIMELY REMINDER FOR APRIL.- - 104 
SHRUBS AND FLOWERS FOR THE FRIENDLY HOUSE 
FRONT. Elizabeth Strang 106 
Plan by the author 
Photographs by Buckley of Binghamtou 
WHEN SPRING COMES TO GRAVETYE William Robinson 110 
Photographs by Mary Rutherfurd Jay and others 
SALVAGING THE EASTER-FLOWERED BULBS 
A. B. Stout 113 
Photographs supplied by the author 
LILIES FROM JUNE TILL SEPTEMBER 
Helen Morgentbau Fox 113 
Photographs by A. B. Stout, E. I. Farrington, Jessie 
Tarbpr Beals 
THE SOILS THAT LILIES LIKE - - - Arthur Herrington 119 
NEW ENGLAND GARDENS - - - Harold Hill Blossom 120 
MAKING GOOD USB OF MAGENTA Eleanor Cabot Bradley 122 
Plans by the author 
EARLY GLADIOLUS OF QUALITY - Chas. E. F. Gersdor/f 124 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt 
"LITTLE LADIES OF THE OLD SCHOOL” Alice Rathbone 126 
Photograph supplied by the author 
TRAVEL TALES OF A PLANT COLLECTOR E. H. Wilson . 127 
IV. More About the Plants of Australia 
Photographs by A. E. Christiansen, J. Horace 
McFarland, N. R. Graves, and the author 
NATIONAL GARDEN WEEK ACTIVITIES—APRIL 22 to 28 131 
Photographs by N. D. Taylor, Arthur M. Prentiss, and 
others 
“GARDEN OF GARDEN BORN” (Verse) - Louise Driscoll 131 
AMONG OUR GARDEN NEIGHBORS -------- 135 
An Endowment Is Asked 
THE OPEN COLUMN.-.136 
Photographs supplied by H. Irwin, S. I. Homans 
Leonard Barron, Editor 
VOLUME XXXVII, No, 2 
Subscription $3,00 a Year; for Canada, §3.35; Foreign, §3.65 
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DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 
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