CONTENTS, APRIL, 1912 
Cover Design: The Garden in Full Bloom House & Garden's Gardening Glide. 32 
Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals System in the Vegetable and Flower Garden. 34 
Frontispiece: A New Old-Fashioned Garden By F. F. Rockivell 
A Garden of Yesterday. 
By Edith Livingston Smith 
The Value of Ivy. 
By Harold Donaldson Ebcrlein 
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The Utility Garden. 
By Parker Thayer Barnes 
The Perennial Garden from Seed 
By Elisabeth Herrick 
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VOLUME XXI Entered as Second-class matter at the Postoffice, New York, N. Y. NUMBER 3 
HENRY H. S.AYLOR, Editor. Copyright, 1912, by McBride, Nast &• Co. 
A Common Sense Explanation of Fertilizers . 17 
By Claude H. Miller 
Annuals, the Garden Reinforcements . 18 
By Adeline Thayer Thomson 
Adventures With An Apple Orchard . 20 
By John Anthony 
An Experimental Year in a Elower Garden. 23 
By M. Virginia Arford 
Shrubs With Year Round Beauty . .25 
By Florence Beckwith 
My Garden in the Sand. . . 28 
By Gladys Hyatt Sinclair 
A Commuter’s Vegetable Garden .' . 30 
By W. 0. Quartley 
The Naturalizing of a City M.a.n. 31 
Remaking a Small Lawn. 
By L. J. Doogue 
English Dooryard Gardens. 
The Home of Mr. Charles Coy, Cranford, N. J. 
The Home of Mr. John W. Graham, Spokane, Wash 
Inside the House. 
Two Living-Room Schemes 
Bed Boxes 
Curtains for Odd Windows 
Garden Suggestions and Queries. 
Sowing Seed 
The Practice of Spring Pruning 
Explicit Cultural Directions 
Editorial . 
