How I Built My Country Home 



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denizens of the wood resent too much famiharity. I found ferns, trilHums, 

 hepaticas or a few moccasin flowers in my own woods, and more from the 

 neighbouring ravines have been added, until groups and colonies abound. 



A view of the lake caused the selection of the site 



These native plants thrill the heart with delight when spring's first breath 

 rouses them to activity. 



Along the shrubbery bank bordering the roadway to the stable, masses 

 of squills, snow-drops, crocuses, chionodoxas, grape hyacinths, and narcissi 

 herald a season of delight, while above them follow, in bloom, the shad- 

 bush, the May-Day tree, and flowering plums and cherries, and the JMissouri 

 currant mingles its spicy breath with the scent of the freshly turned soil, 

 just aroused from its frozen slumber. All these are but the advance-guard 

 of a countless throng of hardy flowers that will open up in well-regulated 

 succession, until the stately Anemone Japonica comes to fight its battle 

 with Jack Frost. 



My garden is open to all who will love and appreciate its contents, be 

 they from, the mansion in the park or from the cottager's home. My flowers 

 bloom not for me alone, but for those of kindred tastes, and it is a pleasure 

 for me to show them. ]\Iany delightful friends have thus been made. 



The pleasures of gardening are infinite and varied. One need not delve 



