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The Garden Magazine, March, 1924 
A lecture on Landscape Architecture illustrated with 50 slides 
has been prepared under the auspices of the American Society 
of Landscape Architects and will be sent upon application 
to the American Federation of Arts, 1741 New York Avenue, 
Washington, D. C. (Rental fee $5, transportation charges 
extra. Either lecture or slides may be had separately at a 
cost of $2.50). 
The New York State Agricultural College at Ithaca offers 
eight illustrated lectures (see page 363, Feb., 1924, G. M.) for the 
use of clubs and communities within the state. 
“The Way To The Good Small Garden,'' an illustrated lec¬ 
ture by Mr. Fletcher Steele, L. A., is available through the 
Federated Women’s Clubs to whom it was given by Mrs. Harold 
I. Pratt of The Garden Club of America. 
The Montana Federation of Women’s Clubs also offers an 
attractive group of illustrated lectures as well as a Pathe color 
film on “Gardens of France, America, and Japan.” Detailed 
information may be had upon application to Mrs. W. I. Dig¬ 
gings, Chairman Division of Art In the Home and Garden, 
Atherton Place, Butte, Montana. 
Creating the City “Garden Beautiful” 
A NEW member of the National Garden Association is the 
Societyof Little Gardens with headquarters in Philadelphia. 
Begun in a small way, this organization has become national in 
its scope and therefore seeks to cooperate with all garden clubs, 
village improvement societies, and similar organizations. 
One dollar a year will entitle any group or club to associate 
membership in this society which aims to become a clearing 
house for those starting city gardens. Just now this society is 
issuing a most helpful plan for crop rotation in town gardens— 
free to members. 
Broadcast Beauty Instead of Billboards 
E VERY community observing National Garden Week should 
stress the abolishment of the billboards, which so dis¬ 
tressingly disfigure our countryside, as an important part of 
their week’s program. “The real weapon is public opinion,” 
says Mr. J. Horace McFarland, President of The American 
Civic Association (see page 227, December, 1923, G. M.). 
Get in touch with your State Highway Commissioner, County 
Road Commission, Local Board of Trade. Show the advertis¬ 
ers that the billboard works against and not for him. Many of 
the big companies (Goodyear Tire Co., Kelly-Springfield Tire 
Co., B. F. Goodrich Tire Co., Fisk Tire Co., Supreme Gulf Oil 
Co., Armour & Co., Kirkman & Son, etc.; see Feb., 1924, G. M., 
page 363.) are already convinced that highway advertising is 
poor advertising and are lining up with the anti-billboard forces. 
Recent word from the Glens Falls Women’s Clubs (conducting 
the anti-billboard campaign) adds three new names to the list of 
organizations which have pledged their support: the Hood Rub¬ 
ber Company, the Washburn-Crosby Company, and the Cham¬ 
pion Spark Plug Company. Each of these firms states emphatic¬ 
ally that the day for such outdoor advertising is passing, and that 
they will do all in their power to aid in saving our scenic beauty. 
Available Programs and Leaflets 
T HE National Garden Association will be glad to send free 
upon request any or all of the following: 
Programs for National Garden Week. 
Constitution, By-laws, and Programs for Garden Clubs. 
Bulletins on: 
Roses, Growing Annual Flowering Plants, Dahlias for the Home, Chry¬ 
santhemums for the Home, The Small Vegetable Garden, The City 
Garden, The Farm Garden in the North, Beautifying the Farmstead. 
Address all communications To The National Garden Association, Garden City, L. I. 
GETTING RID OF TROUBLESOME ANTS 
METHOD of destroying ants recommended by Mr. W. B. 
Gurney, Assistant Entomologist of the Agricultural Depart- 
ArMMk) ment of New South Wales, is as follows: A bait is made 
JLJ LJ1 w 'th q lbs. of sugar, 9 pints of water, 6 grams of crystallized 
tartaric acid, 8.4 grams of benzoate of soda, 15 grams of 
sodium arsenite (or 25 grams of commercial sodium arsenite) and 1 \ lb. 
of honey. All the ingredients, except the sodium arsenite and the honey, 
should be boiled together slowly for thirty minutes and allowed to cool. 
I he sodium arsenite is dissolved in half a pint of hot water, allowed to 
cool, and subsequently added to the cool sugar syrup and the whole well 
stirred. The honey is added last, and" the bait mixed thoroughly. 
Mr. Gurney placed the bait in small tins with the lids fitted on to 
keep out dust and rain, but the sides of the tins bent inwards to form 
openings that allowed the ants ready access to the poison. Each tin 
was furnished with about four ounces of the bait, a quantity that lasts 
for about a month without fermenting. Sufficient rag or sponge to 
absorb practically all the bait was put into the tin so that the ants 
could obtain a foothold and feed on the bait in large numbers. The 
value of this bait lies in its slow action, as the poison permits the ants 
to return again and again before they are killed, thus allowing time 
for them to carry some of the bait to the larvae and queens in the 
nests. 
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GALA TIME IN THE GARDEN 
T HE early spring months bring their own special zest —a gala time for the gardener going forth to conquer and create. 
Even FERTILIZERS, TOOLS, THE MAKING OF AN ASPARAGUS BED, VEGETABLES FOR THE FAMILY, 
and other practical matters dealt with in the February issue are touched with the glamour of fresh adventuring. 
By April all the prosaic preliminaries from which beauty springs have been reckoned with and one turns gladly to 
the aesthetics of gardening. BELLES OF 1924 will pass in review before the reader seeking NOVELTIES FOR THE 
FLOWER BORDER and LAWN. 
Do you know why Willows are quiet trees? Or what divides a “specimen” plant from a “filler”? You will find the 
answer in Mary P. Cunningham’s illuminating article on COMPOSING WITH FOLIAGE in the April number—a number 
full of answers to all sorts of things including GARDEN CLUB PROGRAMS AND HOW THEY ARE OUTLINED. 
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r T'HROUGH the generosity of Mrs. Charles H. Stout, The Garden Magazine is privileged to announce the offer of a 
$50 cash pri{e to be awarded for a new and original poem on the Dahlia. 
Verse submitted in this competition must be of joyous mood in any lyric form, but not exceeding six stanzas in length. 
Competition closes October 1st, ig24, and all entries must reach The Garden Magazine not later than that day. 
Contestants may submit any number of entries, with the name and address of the author plainly marked on each one, 
addressing them to the Dahlia Poem Contest, c / 0 Editors of The Garden Magazine, Garden City, N. Y. 
