CONTENTS 
AUGUST, 1924 
A GARDEN HOUSE ON LONG 
ISLAND SOUND 
Lucky the midsummer gardener 
whose grounds run down to meet 
the water as here at the home of 
Mr. G. A. Schieren at Great Neck, 
L. I.; Ruth Dean Landscape Archi¬ 
tect; Aymar Embury II, Architect 
VOL. XXXIX, N 
o. 
6 
Cover Design: A Garden Pool - -- -- -- - Carl E. Johnson 
Page Pictures: page 
"I Will Sing of the Bounty of the Big Trees”- ------ 389 
“ The Lotus Strayed Through Centuries and Lands” - - - - 390 
‘‘Gray Rocks Are Kindred of the Mould”- ------- 391 
Photographs by Frances Benjamin Johnson, Eugene J. Hall, and Arthur 1 Meiggs 
A Window Full of Daffodils ------ Ruth Gipson Plowhead 392 
Strawberries for Next Season -. Leslie Hudson 392 
Irises for Everybody ------- Agnes Pales Huntington 393 
Photographs by Harry G. Healy, John L. Rea, and Nathan R, Graves 
Informal Linens for the Country Home - - - Amelia Leavitt Hill 397 
Photographs by Dana B. Merrill 
The Housewife and Her Home Garden ----- Ellen Jeffrey 400 
How the Vanilla Orchid Serves Your Household ----- 401 
My Rock Garden (Verse) - -- -- -- -- - Hilda Morris 401 
Two Rock Gardens Near the Sea ------ Beatrix Farrand 402 
Photographs by Herbert W. Gleason 
The National Garden Association - -- -- -- -- -- - 404 
Illustrated 
Shrubs Which Keep the Winter Garden Green - B. Y. Morrison 403 
Photographs by Roger B. Whitman. Robert A. Wheelwright, and H. E. Angell 
Our Best Blue Flower - -- -- -- -- -- John L. Rea 407 
Photograph by the Author 
The Lost Gardens of Cambodia - -- -- - H. H. Manchester 409 
Photographs supplied by the Author 
The Annunciation Lily - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -412 
1 . What Came of a Boy's Love for His Mother L. L. Smith 
11 . The Ancient Lineage of the Ascension Lily M. G. Kains 
Photographs supplied by the Authors 
Some Gardens of “Over-Seas” America - -- -- -- -- - 414 
Photographs by H. F. Hill, Cameron Clark, and 
by the courtesy of the Bureau of Agriculture 
Ranking the Iris Leaders of 1924 ------ R. S. Sturtevant 416 
Let’s Build a Greenhouse for Winter Will Come Frances Markham 417 
Photograph by Philip B. Wallace and plan by the Author 
Some “Rich Relatives of the Poppy Family - - - G. IV. Kerr 419 
Photographs by J. H. Dawson and others 
Garden Pools - -- -- - - -- -- -- -- -- --421 
Photographs by H. A. Strohmeyer, and others 
Among Our Garden Neighbors - -- -- -- -- -- -- 422 
Keeping Step with the limes - -- -- -- -- -- - 422 
The Future Bulb Supply - -- -- -- -- -- -- 422 
A Prize for the Best Dahlia Poem - -- -- -- -- - 423 
“For Better Delphiniums” - -- -- -- -- -- - 423 
Gladiolus Show Announcement - -- -- -- -- -- 423 
The Open Column j 
Some Bulbs Do Grow in America - -- -- -- -- - 423 
Meeting the Home Maker Half-way.423 
Nearly 800 Blooms in Three Days - -- -- -- -- - 423 
Who Can Help This Garden Neighbor?- - -- -- -- - 423 
An Improved Grafting Paraffin - -- -- -- -- -- 423 
Sixty Days from Start to Finish -. ---- - 424 
Iris Mme. Chereau and Her Offspring - -- -- -- -- 424 
Grafting Tree-Peonies in Japan. ---- - 424 
Can Iris Change its Clothes? - -- -- -- -- -- - 425 
Some Rare Spring Effects That Would Be Missed ----- 423 
Photographs bv William Tricker and Mary 
H. Northend; sketch by Kanichiro Yashiroda 
Has Anyone Got These Irises? -. ------ - 426 
A Little Portable Greenhouse for Home Use - - Albert Lowenfels 426 
Photograph by the Author 
The Month’s Reminder—August - -- -- -- -- -- - 427 
If You Are Planting Daffodils This Fall - -- -- -- - 427 
Iris and Madonna Lilies - -- -- -- -- -- -- 427 
“Blacks” of Larkspur - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 427 
Keeping the Flower Border Gay - -- -- -- -- -- 427 
Flowers for the Winter Garden - -- -- -- -- -- 428 
Among the Vegetables. ------- - 428 
Bush and Tree Fruits - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 428 
Of Budding and Borers - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 428 
Move Evergreens Now - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 428 
Chicago: Peoples Gas Bldg. 
F. N. Doubleday, President 
THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Leonard Barron, Editor 
Copyright, 1924, by 
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, Garden City, N. Y. 
Arthur W. Page, Pice-President Nelson Doubleday, Pice-President 
S. A. Everitt, Treasurer John J. Hessian, Asst. Treasurer 
Subscription $3.00 a Year; for Canada, $3.35; Foreign, $3.65 
Entered as second-class matter at Garden City, New York, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 
387 
Boston: Tremont Bldg. 
New York: 120 W. 32nd St. 
Russell Doubleday, Secretary 
