CONTENTS 
JULY, 1924 
VOL. XXXIX, N 
MIDSUMMER GARDENING 
WITH A WILL 
The fad that his perennial border is 
full of midsummer bloom does not 
deter this energetic gardener from 
continuing his activities during the 
warmest of the summer months. 
Mr. fere A. Downs at his home in 
Winchester, Mass. (Photo by 
Mary H. Northend) 
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Cover Design: A Midsummer Bouquet 
Freda B. B idder 
Page Pictures 
“Midsummer Blooms Within Our Garden-ways” - - 
“O, Flower-de-luce, Bloom On” -------- 
“Garden of Garden Bom Through Centuries” - - - 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt and Thomas Ellison 
The Housewife and Her Home Garden 
Salads as Health Builders.- G. 0. Luros 
Some Appetizing Salads That Are Also Nutritious Ellen Jeffery 
Using Flowers Decoratively -------- Estelle H. Ries 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt, 
Jessie Tarbox Beals and Thomas Ellison 
Books for the Home Builder - -- -- -- -- Amer Pindar 
Orchids All My Own - -- -- -- -- -- M. G. Henry 
Photographs by the Author 
Japanese Gardens on the California Coast Dorothea DeMeritte Dunlea 
Photographs by Gabriel Moulin. Frederick 
W. Martin, and the Graham Photo. Co. 
Keeping Cut Flowers Fresh . H. F. Grinstead 
Growing “Meat” in Your Own Garden - -- -- -- -- - 
The Best Early Apple for You ------ E. L. D. Seymour 
Photograph by Thomas Ellison 
Roses That Do Bloom in Late Summer - - J. Horace McFarland 
Flowers That Flourished in the Gardens of Old Italy 
Herbert IF'. Faulkner 
Photographs by Anderson and Alinari 
What to Do in the Vegetable Garden 
Adolph Kruhm and Lewis E. Theiss 
Gardens That Painters Delight In - -- -- -- -- -- - 
Photographs by Edith Hastings Tracy 
The National Garden Association - -- -- -- -- -- - 
More of the Billboard Campaign 
Cherishing Our Native Flowers 
Pecan Trees Make Beautiful Mile-posts 
Garden Bells (Verses) --------- Ethel Romig Fuller 
Illustrated with picture of Fritillaria 
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Some Plant Galls and How They Come ------ E. P. Felt 354 
Illustrated 
The Growing of Irises from Seed - - - - A. Francis Morton, Jr. 356 
Where Orchids Are at Home -------- - E. H. Wilson 357 
Photographs by A. A. Greenlaw and E. J. Wallis 
Round About the Home Garden and Grounds - -- -- --361 
Red Spy, A New Apple for the Home Grounds 
Flow to Multiply Your Favorite Poppy 
Useful Things to Remember About the Lawn 
Three Helpful Hints for the Handy Man 
Lengthening the Life of a Fence 
When Is a Gladiolus Mature? ----- J, Horace McFarland 362 
A Neighbor’s Garden in Iowa - -- -- -- -- -- -- 362 
Illustration 
Among Our Garden Neighbors - -- -- -- -- -- -- 
The Lure of the Orchid 
The Growing Popularity of the Gladiolus 
The Open Column 
Where Vegetables Grow in Red Rock - -- -- -- -- 
Queries From Virginia - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 
The Public’s Point of View on the Flower Shows - - - - - 
Planting Where Winters Are Fifty Below Zero ------ 
Old-fashioned Flowers for the Colonial Home ------ 
“Highbrow” Squash --------------- 
A Twenty-Year-Old Boston Fern ----------- 
Why Aren’t These Roses Included? - -- -- -- -- - 
Where You Can Get Corydalis Seed ---------- 
The Flicker as a Friendly Ally Against Ants ------- 
A Query from California—Rhode Island, Please Answer! - - - 
Photographs by E. E. Norris, Norman M. Ross and C. L. Meller 
“It Seems as Though the Country’s Very Heart Were Centered 
Here” - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - 
Photograph by Henry Troth 
The Month’s Reminder—July - -- -- -- -- -- -- 
Gardening for the Beginner 
Bookshop Contest Notice - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 
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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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Russell Doubleday, Secretary 
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