


Your gardening 
will be more 
enjoyable with 
these helps. 






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Use of Library 


A National 
Magazine 
Tell-U-How 
Service 


Looking Ahead 
In the Garden 
WENTY MILLION people who have participated in Victory 
Gardening have made history in vegetable and fruit growing, 
in canning, and in fighting the war on the home front under the 
banner of ‘Food Fights For Freedom.” In one war year this 
countrywide activity produced eight million tons of essential food- 
stuffs. Without this production, where would we have been ? 
Unless we continue it—wisely perhaps on an adjusted basis— 
where will we land? Any major let-down is unthinkable for the 
uncertainties of a war torn world continue. It is time therefore to 
plan, and to plan carefully, so that our 1945 gardens will give us the 
desired maximum return for the thought and effort put into them. 
~ Tell-U-Where 
Service 


All of these can be 
yours if you 
join the 
The actual saving of money is a notable result of intelligent 
home gardening. Furthermore for many thousands of individuals 
this splendid outdoor interest has changed city pallor to sun tan, 
and listless ways to muscle building activities; it has greatly im- 
proved the variety and quality of the American table; it has 
brought about a new understanding of seeds and soils, and the 
patient way of the earth; and above all else the home gardener, 
through it, has rediscovered an old neighborliness that city folks 
sometimes forget. What greater benefits can be asked of any 
enterprise ? In what other way can the individual enrich his or 
her life, and the lives of others, to a like extent ? 




MASSACHUSETTS 
HORTICULTURAL 
SOCIETY 
For more than a century, 
devoted to the improvement 
of gardening and the spreading 
of knowledge about the care 
and cultivation of Shrubs, 
Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables. 
Membership makes all of 
the above available. 
Annual Membership is only 
$3.00 
We urge you to join today by 
writing to the 
Secretary of the Society 
HorticutruraL Hatt, 
Boston 15 ‘Mass. 


Just to clarify things for those who have not as yet made their 
garden plans for 1945 we feel that a wise balance between practical 
and ornamental gardening should be arrived at. Very definitely 
the need for productive home gardening is not over, nor is the 
need for home canning over. On the other hand, the joy that gay 
colorful flowers can bring to those who are well, and to those who 
are not in good health, makes us think that a happy combination 
of vegetables, fruits and flowers, a better lawn, and perhaps a few 
new roses and shrubs, is the really practical answer to this year’s 
garden problem. 













WHENEVER WE Can BE oF SERVICE TO You, PLEASE CALL ON Us 
JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 

LutHer A. BRECK.......... President and Treasurer 
Harotp S. Ross........ Vice-President Luruer A. Breck, JR......... Vice-President 
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Carster D. Batpwin........Credit Dept. Ernest Bates. Hardware Dept. Gorpvon P. Srmwart.... Retail Sales Dept. 
Wiii1am C. Campsie. . Mail Service Dept. JAMES SHIELS...... Seed Dept. Tuomas H. Westwoon. .Flower Seed Dept. 
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Copyright 1945 by Joseph Breck and Sons 
1 
PLOT 
QUICK INDEX 

Delivery, Terms, 
Etc. 
Page 2 
Vegetable Seeds, 
Roots and Plants 
Page 7 
Vegetable 
Planting Chart 
Page 23 
Flower Seeds 
Page 24 
Lawn Grass Seed 
Mixtures 
Page 50 
Field Seeds, 
Grasses, Grains 
Page 51 
Shrubs and Trees 
Page 52 
Hardy Vines 
Page 54 
Roses 
Page 55 
Fruits 
Page 58 
Miscellaneous 
Summer Bulbs 
Page 60 
Gladiolus 
Page 62 
Dahlias 
Page 65 
Gadgets for 
Garden and Home 
Page 67 
Insecticides, 
Fungicides, Etc. 
Page 71 
Chemicals and 
Horticultural 
Sundries 
Page 74 
Fertilizers 
Page 75 
_ Complete Index 
Page 75 
