HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1912 
77 
^ THE EDITORS 
W INVITE YOU 
TO TELL THE STORY OF WHAT YOU ARE 
DOING IK YOUR GARDEN 
CThis is the time when the first fruits of 
your garden work are appearing. You are 
full of the enthusiasm of the growing 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 your successes. 
CEThere is a fellow feeling among garden 
makers because they have a common pleas¬ 
ure. HOUSE & GARDEN wants to get 
in closer touch with its readers and have 
them use its pages for mutual help. The 
e.xperiences 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 3mu are not a writer. Manuscripts 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 the record of your 
garden progress an essential part of your 
work this year. Take photographs and tell 
us about it. 
IS THIS THE WORK THAT YOU ARE 
DOING? 
An ugly prospect shut out by plants and foliage. 
Making an unattractive building beautiful with vines 
and flowers. 
Developing some perfect flower types. 
Using wild flowei^s 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 was done in an hour each day. 
'rhe evolution of the prize garden. 
What was done uith a spade and two dollars’ worth of 
seeds. 
A child’s garden. 
IMants that came visiting. 
Mj- partnership with tlie birds. 
A living from a back yard. 
What I learned from foreign gardens. 
Setbacks that lead to success. 
Six months of bloom. 
Flowers that flourished in the shade. 
The garden that Nature supplied. 
.Making the most of an acre. 
A garden living-room. 
The garden that started itself. 
From a wilderness to a home. 
What my garden means to me. 
How we found contentment. 
A garden for everj* 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 gi'own. 
Tlie man who found himself. 
The greatest recreation. 
What a year brought forth. 
Mv garden specialts’. 
What I have done with a small suburban plot. 
Irngation on a small place. 
A 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, 
swanuj 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 faim. 
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 & GARDEN, 
UNION SQUARE. NEW YORK CITY 
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Active cold air circulation—Sanitary linings. 
Send for Catalogue, 
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THE GARDEN IN 
THE WILDERNESS 
By “A HERMIT” 
{HANNA RION) 
Author of “Let’s Make a Flower Garden’’ 
\ STORY of a woman who, with her 
artist husband, makes a garden out 
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