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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
April, 1912 
THE EDITORS INVITE YOU 
TO TELL THE STORY OF WHAT YOU ARE DOING IN YOUR GARDEN 
CThis is the time when the first fruits of your garden work are appearing. You are full of the enthusiasm of the grow¬ 
ing plants about you. and are doing things that are very much worth while. A great many others are similarly occupied, 
perhaps at the very thing that is your pet hobby. Wouldn't you like to know how they get the best results? They would like 
to hear of vour successes. 
CT here is a fellow feeling among garden makers because they have a common pleasure. HOUSE & GARDEN wants 
to get in closer touch with its readers and have them use its pages for mutual help. The experiences you are having in 
adding to the beauty and profit of your home will be of considerable interest. Their merit depends on the real facts, not 
the literary style, so do not hesitate because you do not think that you are not a writer. IManuscript should be about two 
thousand words in length, the more pictures you have the better. Both will command our usual rates. If you have not 
done so before, make tbe record of your garden progress an essential part of your work this year. Take photographs and 
tell us about It. WORK THAT YOU ARE DOING? 
An ugly pro.spect shut out by plants and foliage. 
Making an unattractive building beautiful with 
vines and flowers. 
Developing some iwrfect flower types. 
Using wild flowers to advantage. 
Making my vegetable garden pay. 
The seeds that sprouted first. 
A summer that paid for itself. 
The way we conquered the frost. 
What w'as ,done in an liour .each day. 
The evolution of the prize garden. 
W'hat was done with a spade and two dollars’ 
worth of seeds. 
A child’s garden. 
Plants that came visiting. 
My partnership with the birds. 
A living from a back yard. 
What I learned from foreign gardens. 
Setbacks that lead to success. 
Six months of bloom. 
I-'lowers that flourished in the shade. 
The garden that Nature supplied. 
Making the most of an acre. 
A garden living-rqom. 
The garden that started itself. 
Prom a wilderness to a home. 
What my garden means to me. 
How we found contentment. 
.A garden for every man. 
The secret of my success. 
How my garden grew. 
-My luck with roses. 
The stars of my garden. 
The most satisfactory plant. 
Flowers I have grown. 
The man who found himself. 
The greatest recreation. 
What a year brought forth. 
My garden specialty. 
What I have done with a small suburban plot. 
Irrigation on a small place. 
dining-room outdoors. 
Hunting wild orchids. 
Sugar maples and maple sugar. 
•Making cider from your own orchard. 
The complete fruit garden. 
Our four acre farm. 
What we learned of the silk worm. 
Conquering the garden pests. 
A swamp garden. 
The useful insects in my garden. 
Redeeming waste land. 
The sort of hedge that served us best. 
Help we had from a greenhouse. 
A window garden bright all year. 
Ice house and ice crop. 
My success with bees. 
The home dairy. 
Does poultry pay? 
The fun of keeping fancy fowl. 
Profit in pigs. 
•An amateur’s stock farm. 
.Are Pigeons Worth While? 
The best dog for the country place. 
Pets from the woods and fields. 
The untiring ant. 
Wild birds and pheasants. 
-A beginner’s sheep fold. 
ADDRESS THE EDITORS, HOUSE U GARDEN, UNION SQUARE, NEM’ YORK 
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