July, 
1910 
HOUSE AND GARDEN [ 
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The Garden Primer will tell 
you the whole art of start¬ 
ing flowers and vegetables 
in the hotbed and coldframe 
Have you any desire to go out 
into the garden before break¬ 
fast and gather dew-wet vege¬ 
tables such as money cannot 
buy? 
With the aid of the Garden 
Primer you simply cannot 
fail to have a garden like 
this 
Now Ready 
The Garden Primer 
By Grace Tabor and Gardner Teall 
An Indispensable Book for every Garden-Maker 
C The Garden Primer, as its title indicates, is a hand-book of practical gardening infor¬ 
mation for the beginner, covering every branch of the subject from preparing the soil 
to the gathering of the fruit and flowers. In it is set forth, without any confusing techni¬ 
calities, just the information that will enable the amateur to grasp quickly the essentials of 
garden-making. The authors, in preparing this book, have drawn from their long experi¬ 
ence, and in writing it assume on the part of the reader no knowledge of the subject, in 
order that it may be of the greatest value to the beginner. There has been great need of a 
book of this kind, yet, so far as we know, no volume has ever been published that treats 
the subject in this charmingly simple way. While dealing with first principles this volume 
has an equal interest for the advanced gardener, who will find much of value in the experi¬ 
ences of the authors, and in a fresh presentation of a subject which always abounds in new 
methods and discoveries. 
CL Every branch of gardening is treated in a delightfully practical way—the growing of vegetables and flowers, the use 
of fertilizers, pruning, cultivating, spraying and the thousand-and-one things that every successful garden-maker 
needs to know. A profusion of illustrations, many of them of the most practical sort in explaining the various garden 
operations, make the text especially clear. 
CL The matter is supplemented by carefully prepared planting tables, an invaluable guide to the beginner in gardening. 
The whole contents is carefully indexed, greatly simplifying it for reference; thus information on any subject con¬ 
tained in the book is instantly accessible. 
The Whole Subject of Gardening Covered 
A glance at the seventeen chapter headings will indicate the field covered. 
I. Introductory 
II. Sorts of Plants 
III. The Soil 
3 ; 
IV. Nomenclature 
V. Seeds and Sowing 
VI. Seedlings and Transplanting 
VII. Plants and Cultivation 
VIII. Fertilizers 
IX. Hotbeds and Coldframes 
X. Pruning 
XI. Garden Pests and Spraying 
XII. Garden Tools 
XIII. The Flower Garden 
XIV. Flower Planting Tables 
XV. The Vegetable Garden 
XVI. Vegetable Planting Tables 
XVII. Calendar of Garden Operations 
The Garden Primer is a beautiful i6mo volume 
with many half-tone illustrations. Bound in dark 
green cloth, tastefully decorated, with an inlaid illus- I 
tration of an exquisite garden scene done in full color. 1 
McBRIDE, WINSTON ^ CO.. Publishers 
449 Fourth Ave., New York 
Please send me postpaid The Garden Primer, for which I 
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