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The Book of the Iris, R. Irwin Lynch ( John Lane) 
Tall Bearded Iris, Walter Stager (Stager) 
Bulletins of the American Iris Society 
Peony 
The Book of the Peony, Mrs. Edward Harding ( Lippincoit) 
Peonies in The Little Garden, Mrs. Edward Harding (Atlantic 
Monthly Press) 
Bulletins of the American Peony Society 
Rose 
Roses and How to Grow Them, J. Horace McFarland ( Doubleday, 
Page Sr Co.) 
The Practical Book of Outdoor Rose Growing, Geo. C. Thomas, Jr. 
(Lippincoit) 
How to Grow Roses, Robert Pyle (Conard Sr Jones) 
The American Rose Annuals 
Dahlia 
Thf. Amateur’s Book of the Dahlia, Mrs. Charles H. Stout (Double- 
day, Page Sr Co.) 
The Garden Magazine, “Appraising Some Newer American Dahlias,” 
T. G. Pappe (Feb., 1923) 
Chrysanthemum 
The Chrysanthemum, Arthur Herrington ( Orange Judd) 
The Chrysanthemum Manual, Elmer D. Smith (Smith) 
The Garden Magazine, “Big Chrysanthemums and Little in Gardens 
East and West,” Wenzel, McColm, Smith (Mar., 1923); “The Day of 
Small-flowered Chrysanthemums,” Chas. H. Totty (April, 1923); 
“The Trail of the Chrysanthemum,” Albert A. Hansen (Nov., 1922) 
VI. Little Indoor Gardens 
1. Bulbs (Kinds and How to Force for Successional Bloom) 
The Garden Magazine, “Household Flowers for the Holidays,” Ellen 
D. Wangner, (Aug., 1922) 
2. House Plants (Satisfactory Sorts and Their Care) 
The Garden Magazine, “Now That the Porch Plants Are Indoors,” 
Jane Leslie Kift (Nov., 1922); “Success with the Indoor Window 
Garden,” Burke and Miller (Oct., 1922) 
3. Winter Window Boxes (Materials and Time for Planting) 
The Amateur’s Book of House Plants, Parker T. Barnes (Doubleday, 
Page Sr Co.) 
Milady’s House Plants, F. E. Palmer (De La Mare) 
House Plants, Their Care and Culture, Hugh Findlay (Appleton) 
The Complete Garden, Albert D. Taylor (Doubleday, Page Sr Co.) Ch. 
XXXV 
VII. Wild Flowers and the Garden 
1. The Wild Garden and Conservation 
Taming the Wildings, Herbert Durand (Putnam) 
The Garden Magazine, “The Broader Gardening,” Helena Radema- 
cher-Pickenback (May, 1923) 
2. What Shall We Do About Christmas Greens? 
Bulletins of the Wild Flower Preservation Society 
The Garden Magazine, “Long Life to Our Christmas Greens,” 
Elizabeth G. Britton (Dec., 1923) 
VIII. Trees and the Garden 
1. Trees and Their Meaning to Man 
The Romance of Our Trees, E. H. Wilson (Doubleday, Page Sr Co.) 
Botany, the Science of Plant Life, Norman Taylor (Harpers) 
The Cultivated Evergreens, L. H. Bailey (Macmillan) Chapter I. 
The Garden Magazine, “Green Symbols,” Mark Daniels (Aug., 1921) 
2. Double-Purpose Trees (Nut and Fruit Trees as Ornamentals) 
Nut Growing, Dr. Robt. T. Morris (Macmillan) 
The Garden Magazine, “Concerning Trees That We Plant,” Dr. Robt. 
T. Morris (Oct., 1922); “By All Means Plant -Nut Trees,” L. and M. 
Theiss (Oct., 1921); “ Under His Own Vine and Fig Tree,” L. E. Theiss 
(Jan., 1921) 
IX. Flower Arrangement 
Principles of Flower Arrangement, Edward A. White (De La Mare) 
Flowers for Cutting and Decoration, Richardson Wright (Dutton) 
The Garden Magazine, “Flower Arrangement As a Fine Art,” E. A. 
White (Aug., 1922); “Decorating Artistically with Flowers,” E. A. 
White (Oct., 1922) 
Japanese Flower Arrangement, Mary Averill (Lane) 
X. Why Gardening is Good Citizenry 
1. What Gardens Mean in the Life of a Nation 
Man’s Spiritual Contact with the Landscape, Stephen F. Hamlin 
(Badger) 
2. National Garden Week Activities 
The Garden Magazine for March, 1923, and every subsequent issue 
3. Postering the Junior Garden Clubs 
4. Children’s Gardens and Their Civic Significance (School 
Gardens, Classes at the Botanic Gardens, Tree Planting Day 
etc.) 
XI. Birds and the Garden (Planting to Attract the Birds) 
How to Make Friends with Birds, Neil Morrow Ladd (Doubleday, 
Page Sr Co.) 
Wild Bird Guests, Ernest Harold Baynes (Dutton) 
Our Winter Birds— How to Know and Attract Them, Frank M. 
Chapman (Appleton) 
The Complete Garden, Albert Taylor (Doubleday, Page Sr Co.) Chap. xx. 
Audubon Society Bulletins 
Thf. Garden Magazine, “Planting Now for Birds the Year Through,” 
(Oct., 1921) 
XII. Flower Shows and What They Accomplish 
When and How to Stage, Classifications, Judges, Rulings, etc. 
The Book of the Flower Show, R. Hooper Pearson (Lane) 
The Amateur's Book of the Dahlia, Mrs. Chas. H. Stout (Doubleday. 
Page Sr Co.) Chap. xii. 
Page From a Garden Notebook, Mrs. Francis King (Scribner’s) 
Bulletin of the Garden Club of America (May, 1923) 
SHIRLEY POPPIES FOR. INDOOR USE 
HANS J. KOEHLER 
HE Shirley Poppy is hardly thought of as a cut flower, yet 
it can be so used under favorable conditions; for those 
who have never grown and cut it for this purpose there is 
an agreeable surprise in store. The cultural directions 
will be passed over except to say that the Poppies must be given 
fairly well enriched garden soil, watered occasionally, and—most 
important of all—not neglected in the thinning, so that at the 
last thinning they stand at least four inches apart, and prefer¬ 
ably six. 
The flowers are not easily carried far when cut and are most 
effective if gotten into water in the house within a few minutes 
after picking. Pick them early in the morning, using only 
such flowers as have opened freshly that morning. A vase of 
forty or so of well-grown blooms, cut with long stems and before 
the anthers have shed their pollen, make a display of tender, 
delicate, chaste beauty absolutely unparalleled; the finest Roses 
look brutal and sensuous beside them. The Poppies seem to 
gain in the surroundings of the house. 1 once placed about a 
hundred and twenty in the room in three or four vases, and 
then called in a few neighbors; their exclamations of delight 
rivalled those heard at a fireworks exhibition ! 
if the weather is not too hot and the Poppies are kept out of 
drafts, they will remain in good condition for forty-eight hours, 
and in really cool weather for seventy-two hours or longer. 
Shirley Poppies grown and handled as here described are very 
different from the puny, sorry looking, bedraggled specimens 
sometimes seen stuck into a bouquet of mixed flowers where 
their fragile loveliness is completely obliterated. 
