GREENWICH— AN IDEAL TOWN FOR RESIDENCE 



The Edition de Luxe 

 of Connecticut Towns 



GREENWICH, CONNECTICUT, 



(Also see previous page) 

 The Most Successful Attempt of Nature and Man to Produce an Ideal Place for a "Home Near to Nature," 



Here are good roads, palatial residences, comfortable cottages, beautiful BCfinery, millionaire-play farm- 

 ing, and make your-living farming as primitive as in the days of our ancestors— even with the patient, 

 picturesque oxen. Here are grounds, 1 li<' Ideal of the landscape gardener, and only a few rods away forests 

 and fields as wild as in the days of the Indian. For anything and everything, come to Greenwich, 



P. S. — Do not forget that Sound Beach is within the town. That is Greenwich's best claim for excellence. 



Guiding From the City To Nature 

 It is the mission of the naturalist 

 to get near to nature. To induce as 

 many as possible to emulate the na- 

 turalist and to extend that mission is 

 the purpose of this magazine. 



The science teacher takes her pupils 

 to nature by showing nature's in- 

 teresting objects. Fortunate is she, 



The nature writer writes because he 

 loves to describe nature. The more he 

 loves nature, the greater his success 

 and the larger his royalties. The 

 most of us try to do the thing that we 

 best like to do, or at least it may be 

 truthfully said that the better we like 

 to do it, the greater is our success. 

 Success, therefore, is an indication 



MR. LAURENCE TIMMONS, WITH EFFICIENT ASSISTANTS, IN CONFERENCE AS TO THE 



FIRST STEP— A HOME— IN NEARNESS TO NATURE. 



•and even more fortunate her pupils, if of fitness for a position and of satisfac- 

 she realizes that this "'taking to na- tion in doing the work. The person 

 ture" is more important than her that induces another to abandon a 

 salary. The amateur naturalist is crowded city to live by the sea or in 

 never so happy as when he is inducing the quiet suburbs or on a farm, is do- 

 others to join in his favorite pursuits, ing good naturalistic work, although 



