CONTENTS 
FEBRUARY, 1924 
VOL. XXXVIII, No. 
DOORSTEP GARDEN AT MRS. 
GEORGE N. TIDD'S HOME, 
ELIZABETH, N. J. 
Where Foxgloves, Lupins, Columbines 
and other “ old-fashioned” favorites 
cluster in friendly proximity, creating 
an immediate sense of welcome. Ruth 
Dean, Landscape Architect 
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Cover Design: A Little New England Garden - - - Carl E. Johnson 
Page Pictures page 
"My Flower-Room Is Such a Little Place” ------- 327 
“The Old Earth Ways Again”- - --.328 
"See This My Garden” - - -- -- -- -- -- -- 329 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt, Edwin Levick, and R. V. Smutney 
The Month’s Reminder—February - -- -- -- -- -- 330 
Bearberry As an Evergreen Ground Cover - - - Hans Koehler 331 
Fertilizers for the Vegetable Grower - -- -- -- -- -331 
Making a Small Garden Look Large- - - - -Arthur G. Eldredge 332 
Photographs by the author 
Plan by O. C. Simmonds, L.A. 
Dorothy—Patron Saint of Gardeners - - - - Rev. Joseph Jacob 336 
Drawing by Mary W. Haring and illustration supplied by the author 
Spring in a Western Garden ------------- 348 
Pictures of Mr. and Mrs. Allen G. Freeman’s Berkeley 
(Cal.) Garden, designed by Allison M. Woodman 
Asparagus in the Home Garden - -- -- --.350 
The Decorative Use of Trellis - -- -- -- - Estelle H. Ries 351 
Photographs by Mattie Edwards Hewitt and John Wallace Gillies 
Travel Tales of a Plant Collector- ------ E. H. Wilson 355 
XII. The Tropics of the New World 
Photographs by E. J. Wallis and the author 
The Gardener’s Bookshelf for 1924 - -- -- -- -- -- 359 
Notes on Some Recent Garden Books 
Among Our Garden Neighbors.- - - - - 360 
What’s in a Name? 
A Fifty Dollar Prize Offer 
Planting Chart for a Family’s Vegetables - - - - Adolph Kruhm 337 
Rainbow Gardens - -- -- -- -- - Dorothea D. Dmilea 339 
Photograph by Graham Photo Co. 
Combinations for the Summer Flower Garden William Robinson 341 
Illustrated 
Some Tools That Lighten Labor - -- -- -- -- -- - 344 
Picture Display of Up-to-Date Gardening Devices 
What National Garden Week Means in Des Moines 
Mrs. Addison Parker 346 
Plan by Etta M. Bardwell 
Cartoon by Jay Darling (Ding) 
“Flower Time and Dower Time” (Verses) - Hatpel Harper Harris 347 
The Open Column 
The Danger That Lurks in Seeds- - -- -- -- -- - 361 
A Novel Valentine - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 361 
Who Grows Perennials for July?. ---- - 361 
Gardens of Spain - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -361 
Credit Where Due - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 361 
A Lamp Post to Match - -- -- -- -- -- -- - 362 
Drawings and photograph supplied by William Pitkin, jr., Landscape Architect 
The “Rosy-fingered” Double Flowering Plum Withstands 
Dakota Cold - - - -.- 362 
The National Garden Association ----------- - 363 
What’s Happening to the Billboard 
Available Lectures for National Garden Week 
Chicago: Peoples Gas Bldg. 
Los Angeles: Van Nuys Bldg. 
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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Entered as second-class matter at Garden City, New York, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879 
Boston: Tremont Bldg. 
New York: 120 W. 32nd St. 
Russell Doubleday, Secretary 
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