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creene] A NATURE CREED 



persons who wanted to move away from the city. This chan 

 to country surroundings was based upon the purely business 

 considerations that the- new conditions would favor great* r 

 efficienc) . 



Many acres aboul and near the building "preach the gospel 

 of the garden, of the planting of trees ami shrubs and flowers, 

 and the making of better gardens" ; "spread," also "the new dis- 

 coveries of the newest agriculture and help to make farming more 

 effective." There are forty acres to do this, and the}- do it, even 

 now. A few words as to how. 



Passing from the special train which had been run into the 

 grounds over the Doubleday, Page & Company's spur track, their 

 guests saw everywhere signs of newness, of rawness, even. And 

 yet, at the turn of a path this was lost sight of as one came upon 

 a large open-air room enclosed by tall cedars which surrounded 

 a sizeable pond where fish sported in the clear blue water of the 

 Italian pool. Out from this green room, stretching southward 

 half a mile, runs a broad, shaded pathway touching the court 

 with its upper and lower gardens and continuing past the experi- 

 mental plots and the Remembrance Garden to enter the rose 

 garden with its smaller cedar room containing the unique sun 

 dial. The dial, 5x7 feet, is to be of bronze or brass on marble 

 base. It is unique in that the customary signs of the zodiac are 

 replaced by the printer's marks used during the first half century 

 of printing. The model showed the name, date and mark of 

 twelve famous printers, including those of Caxton, Gensen, 

 Aldus, Schoeffer, Ulrich Gering, Guillaunne La Rouge, Theiry 

 Martin, the St. Albans' press and others. The gnomen is placed 

 upon the fold of the open Guttenberg Bible below which is the 

 text 



"O Measure of Time! 

 Thou merest mite within the Providence of God, 

 May thy unerring finger ever point 

 To those who printed first the written word." 



. The Remembrance Garden is for the growth of seeds and 

 seedlings whose parent plants dwell in the gardens of famous 

 personages or of authors whose works are published by the 

 Country Life Press. 



The two gardens of the court are bordered, the lower by 

 many hundreds of little plants of box; the upper by a low hedge 

 of arbor vitae, while elsewhere, privet and cedar are used to 

 advantage. 



