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THE GUIDE TO NATURE 



Poetry Prefaced Peaches. 



In The Guide to Nature for July. 

 1914, we published an article on Idyl- 

 land, the home of Charles H. Crandall, 

 the farmer-poet, in the northern part 





MR. PAUL M. BARROWS. 



The real happy farmer. 



of Stamford, Connecticut. In addition 

 to the usual farm crops that farm was 

 then productive of a prolific crop of 



poetry, and as typical of that crop we 

 published in our article certain of the 

 poems, namely, "The Forest Cure," 

 "Three Trees," "The Happy Farmer'' 

 and "Lean on Your Oars and Rest 

 Awhile-" In the point of view of the 

 present these poems have a special po- 

 etical significance not then recognized 

 Idylland was afterwards sold to Mr. 

 Paul M. Barrows, and in its develop- 

 ment into one of the best fruit farms of 

 the state of Connecticut the emblema- 

 tic three trees have multiplied into a 

 forest of fruit trees innumerable. Mr 

 Barrows as the happy farmer is sur- 

 rounded by everything needful to make 

 him the exemplification of the title, for 

 the new homestead has every indica- 

 tion of happiness, prosperity and even 

 indeed of luxurious comfort. While it 

 was not a leaning on the oars that has 

 transformed this poetical farm into a 

 model peach orchard, there was, even 

 in the strenuous labor of brain and 

 hand required by the transformation 

 at least emblematically speaking, a 

 period of resting awhile in the time 

 necessary for the maturing of the for- 

 est of fruit trees which now cover the 

 slopes and the summits of the hills of 

 this farm of magnificent views. It has 

 been renamed Mayapple Farm and is 

 being developed for thoroughly patriot- 

 ic service in that each square foot of 

 the land is planned for the greatest pro- 



THE "FARMHOUSE:": BESPEAKS PROSPERITY IN PEACHES. 



