The Home Garden, January 1944

Periodical: The Home Garden
Date: January 1944
Genre: Home & Garden
Cover: Spruce Fir by H. W. Burgess, 1827.
Publisher: The American Garden Guild, Inc., Concord, New Hampshire.
Pages: 96
Format: Staple-bound, digest-format magazine.
Provenance: Part of a bound set of The Home Garden back issues from January-June 1944. "25¢" marked in pencil on cover.
Topics Covered In This Issue: Lilies from Seed; Winter Designs; Pruning Apples and Pears; Grasses for Southern Lawns; Vegetable Garden Plans; What We Got from Our Victory Garden.
Random Passage: "The intimate relationship that exists between plants and the soil is an established fact, the importance of which is not fully recognized in matters concerning soil improvement." (from Coal Ashes as a Soil Improver by P.J. McKenna)
Notes: Being published in the midst of World War II, many articles in this issue relate to victory gardens and how to maintain them, although a wide variety of other topics are covered as well. The Home Garden's whimsical column illustrations were done by Sally Michel Avery (1902-2003) who went on to become an acclaimed painter.