CONTENTS 
APRIL, 1924 
VOL. XXXIX, No. 
ENTRANCE TO THE STUDIO 
OF MR. JOHN TAYLOR 
ARMS, FAIRFIELD, CONN. 
Where Zinnias grow to great si?e 
in pervasive, persuasive sunshine 
and a friendly dial above the 
door, records the pleasant hours. 
Clark & Arms, Architects 
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Cover Design: “Color in the Garden” ------ Carl E. Johnson 
Page Pictures: page 
“For Here Is April Weather” - -- -- -- -- -- | 0 y 
“’Tis Fine to See the Sunshine” -. io 8 
“ Late Were We Sleeping” - -- -- -- -- -- -- 109 
Photographs by Roger B. Whitman, Harry G. Healy, Arthur G. Eldredge 
The Month’s Reminder—April - -- -- -- -- -- -- no 
Shrubbery Plantings That Blend - - - - Mary P. Cunningham 1 12 
Plans by the Author 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Charles Darling 
The National Garden Association - -- -- -- -- -- - n6 
Building a Nation Beautiful 
“Swat the Sign and Save the Scenery” 
Preserving the Playgrounds of Our People 
Lectures and Leaflets for Garden Week 
National Garden Week in Your Town 
Do You Know Your Daffodils? - -- -- -- -- -- -- n8 
Photographs by N. R. Graves others 
Up-To-Date Findings About Acid Soil Fertility H. K. Button 120 
Planting For “After June” Bloom in the Flower Border 
Sherman R. Duffy 121 
Photographs by E. I. Farrington, J. Horace McFarland Co., Arthur G. Eldredge 
Soil Facts for Ready Reference - -- -- -- -- -- -- 124 
A Day-Lily Which Likes Both Sun and Shade - - - H. C. Downer 124 
Photographs by Margaret DeM. Brown 
Planning a Program for Your Garden Club -------- - 126 
Shirley Poppies for Indoor Use ------- Hans J. Koehler 127 
Garden of Mrs. A. L. Kramer - -- -- -- -- -- -- 128 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt 
How I Feed My Roses ----- Rev. Spencer S. Sulliger, D. D. 130 
A Gladiolus Chronicle - -- -- -- - Clarissa Kelsey Miller 131 
Photographs by the Author 
The Flower of Its Family - -- -- -- -- Alice Ratbbone 133 
Photographs by the Author 
“The Gamblers” (Verse) - -- -- -- - Sarah N. Cleghorn 134 
Rich Planting Effects “While You Wait” - - - Ernest E. Coe 133 
Photograph by Phelps Studio 
A Family of Flowering Plants That Really Love the Shade 
Louise Beebe IVilder 136 
Photograph by J. Horace McFarland Co. 
Stepping Stones of Garden Progress - -- -- -- -- -- 138 
Photographs by J. Horace McFarland Co., C. L. Huntington, R. A. Malby, and others 
Among Our Garden Neighbors - -- -- -- -- -- -- 142 
Reviving Our Oldest Botanic Garden 
A Monument to Lemoine 
A Travel Course in Landscape Architecture 
The Big Spring Flower Shows 
The Open Column 
Of Pinks and Some Spring-flowering Bulbs That Are Scarce - - 143 
Clothing Waste Places with Petunias - -- -- -- -- 144 
A Little Garden of the Thousand Isles - -- -- -- -- 145 
Beneficent Vigilantes of My Garden -.145 
Little Californians at Home in Ohio --------- - [46 
A Twenty-Year-Old Snowball in Dakota -. --146 
Protecting Early Crops from Late Frost - -- -- -- - [46 
Photographs by H. R. Mosnat, F. J. Koch, Clifford Sine, K. S. Taylor, C. L. Meller 
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F. N. Doubleday, President 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Leonard Barron, Editor 
Copyright, 1924, by 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, Garden City, N. Y. 
Arthur W. Page, Vice-President Nelson Doubleday, Vice-President 
S. A. Everitt, Treasurer John J. Hessian, Asst. Treasurer 
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