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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
March, 1915 
Good News for Garden-Lovers! 
N OT content with merely telling how to plan gardens or printing pic¬ 
tures of pretty gardens, THE CRAFTSMAN hereby announces 
the most generous and practical offer ever made to gar den-lovers: 
Select the kind of garden which appeals to you most, from the list below, 
and we will send you absolutely FREE, with $1.00 or $3.00 subscriptions 
as specified below, the complete material to make this garden a charming 
reality on your own grounds. The seeds and plants given with these offers 
will come direct to you from the best known growers in America, such as 
Burpee, Dreer, Henderson, Thorburn, Andorra Nurseries, Bobbink & 
Atkins, Knight & Struck, New England Nurseries, Weeber & Don. Full 
instructions for planting with each group. 
By permission of Alice Boughton 
A SERIES OF CASH PRIZES will be awarded by THE CRAFTSMAN for the best gardens grown from the seeds and plants 
in these offers. Complete details of these prizes will be sent to everyone taking advantage of these offers. Descriptions and 
photographs of the prize winning gardens will appear in THE CRAFTSMAN. 
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with Four Months’ Subscription 
rixUlli to THE CRAFTSMAN, $1.00 
1. Beginner’s Flower Garden. — 20 pkgs. of seeds: Foxglove, 
baby’s breath, candytuft, poppies, cornflower, sweet peas, holly¬ 
hocks, larkspur, marigold, morning glory, sweet alyssum, mign¬ 
onette, love-in-a-mist, phlox, Drummondii, petunias, scabiosa, 
stocks, China pinks, Sweet William. 
Wild Flower Garden —20 pkgs. of seeds; wild pinks, columbine, 
goldenrod, asters, flax, campanula, saxifrage, delphinium, 
pyrethrum, Sweet William, mimulus, viola, marsh mallow, 
lobelia, lupine, evening primrose, monk’s-hood, black-eyed 
Susan, forget-me-not, larkspur. 
3. Children’s Garden — 20 pkgs. of seeds: Candytuft, mignonette, 
nasturtium, forget-me-nots, petunias, stocks, marigold, poppies, 
morning glory, radish, lettuce, turnips, carrots, peas, beans, 
onions, cucumbers, beets, squash. 
Vegetable Garden — 20 pkgs. of seeds: Lettuce (2 varieties), 
beets, romaine, radishes (2 varieties), carrots, Swiss chard, parsley 
spinach, turnips, parsnips, salsify, squash (Summer and Hubbard) 
cucumber, leeks, okra, onion, muskmelon. 
Vines and Creepers —20 pkgs. of seeds: Gourds (dipper and 
mixed), morning and evening glory, lathyrus, balloon vine, 
Japanese hop, hyacinth bean (pink and mixed) moonflower, ice 
plant, cypress vine, linaria, Allegheny vine, canary bird, wild 
cucumber, cobaea scandens, trailing nasturtium. 
FREE 
with One Year’s Subscription 
to THE CRAFTSMAN, $3.00 
6. Rose Garden — 6 two-year-old plants: Hybrid Perpetuals — 
American Beauty, Baroness de Rothschild, Marshall P. Wilder; 
Climbing Roses — Cecil Brunner, Crimson Rambler, Dorothy 
Perkins. 
7. Fragrant Herbs Garden — 20 plants, two each of spearmint, 
tarragon, hyssop, balm, thyme, sage, peppermint, chives, rue, 
lavender. 
8. Fruit Garden — 13 trees and plants (2 to 3 yrs. old, high-grade 
selected stock): 2 apple, 1 pear, and 2 peach trees, 2 grape-vines, 
6 berry bushes (red and black raspberries). 
9. Water Garden — 12 large roots: Water lily (four varieties), 
water hyacinths (2), water arum, water lettuce, parrot’s feather, 
wild rice (1 dozen), marsh marigold, water poppy. 
10. Old-Fashioned Flower Garden —30 large packages of seeds: 
Poppies, scabiosa, phlox (dwarf and large), love-in-a-mist, 
nicotiana, marigold, larkspur, foxglove, pyrethrum, amaranthus, 
calendula, boltonia, coneflower, coreopsis, zinnias, campanula, 
asters, nasturtiums, antirrhinum, salpiglossis, forget-me-not, 
sweet peas, gaillardia, sweet alyssum, morning glory, balsams, 
corn-flower, cosmos, mignonette. 
A Suburban Lawn (60-ft. x 100-ft.)—a peck of grass seed, one of the most celebrated mixtures produced in America, sufficient 
to cover considerably more than 2 thousand square feet with a rich velvety lawn. FREE with one year’s subscription, $3.00. 
To the City Garden-Lover —denied the pleasure of an outdoor garden, we 
offer FREE these sculptured Fern-Dishes of exquisite beauty, ornamented in 
high relief — the circular one, at the left, with a 4 months’ subscription, $1.00; 
the rectangular one, at the right, with a year’s subscription, $3.00 — all charges 
prepaid, except 50c extra for addresses west of the Mississippi. 
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T HE Annual Garden Number of THE CRAFTSMAN (March) 
included in all the above subscription offers, will contain, among 
other features, the following, all illustrated in the sumptuous manner 
which has earned for THE CRAFTSMAN its international reputa¬ 
tion: “My Father’s Garden and Mine,’’ by Julian Burroughs; 
“Wild Gardens,” by Wilhelm Miller; “Sculpture in the Garden,” 
“New England Wild Flowers,” “An American Japanese Garden,” 
“ My Garden, ” by Will Comfort; “ Birds in the Garden, ’’etc. In April 
comes the biggest number of all, the Annual Home-building Num¬ 
ber, followed by others equally rich and alluring to the home-lover. 
COUPON 
THE CRAFTSMAN, Craftsman Bldg., 6 E.39th St., New York 
Please enter my name for a (4 mos.) (one year’s) subscription to 
THE CRAFTSMAN, beginning with the Garden Number, for the 
enclosed ($1.00) ($3.00), and send me absolutely FREE, all charges 
prepaid, ^planting material for Garden No -. . . .Suburban Lawn, 
Fern-Dish (circular) (rectangular.) 
= Name. 
Address . 
♦West of the Mississippi—25 cts. for planting material, 50 cts. for fern-dish, must be added. 
Extra postage Canadian and Foreign Subscriptions. H.G.3 
In writing to advertisers please mention House & Garden. 
