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Every Sunday, leading hortieultm al experts

writing in the garden pages of The New York Times

provide tile most practical, up-to-date advice avail-

able on almost every phase of gardening-from lawn

care to pruning espalier trees; from pest control to

terrace landscaping; from old-fashioned rose culture

to the selection of exotic house phmts.

Now the garden editor, Joan Lee Faust, has

brought together in this eminently usable hook

inore than loo of the best articles from the Times,

written by such outstanding authorities as Cynthia

Westeott, Donald Wyman, F. F. Rockwell, Clarence

E. Lewis, Walter Singer, and many others. Miss

Faust has selected these articles to emphasize the

"what" of gardening even more than the "how." The

book thus goes beyond the ordinary reference man-

ual on workaday chores, to give you a rich collection

of exciting gardening ideas, many quite new but all

tried-and-tested.

Here are suggestions for adaptable landscape.

designs to refm bish neglected back yards or give

color and warmth to tile still bare grounds of a new

home. The special problems of planting by the sea-

side or in the city or inside the home are brought

into focus. Projects for children, outdoors and in, in-

vite them to share the joys of gardening as a bobby.

Here also are suggestions on the best flowering

plants for cutting and for drying, as well as hints

about fruits, vegetables and herbs for the gourmet

gardener. Many articles emphasize the choice shade

trees and flowering shrubs, the rare and tmnsual

spring bulbs, the newest smnnrer annuals, and the

most reliable late-blooming perennials. Among the

book s most helpful special features is a month-by-

month guide to garden upkeep, based on Joan

Faust s own popular eohunn, "Around the Garden."

Thorough, authoritative, crammed with infor-

mation, THE NrW YORK TIMES GARDEN BOOK will

stinmlate you to a keener awareness of the vast

potentials at your command as you pursue "the

oldest art of all."