A new Kind of greenhouse — a living room containing birds, grass and flowers An admirable transition from garden to woods — from cultivation to wild garden 



Third Annual Round-up" of Gardening Achievements 



RECORD-BREAKING EXPERIENCES BY AMATEURS WHO HAVE GOTTEN BIGGER, BETTER OR EARLIER FRUIT, 

 VEGETABLES OR FLOWERS— THE MOST INTERESTING EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN RECEIVED DURING THE YEAR 



Birds, Grass and Flowers All 

 Winter 



Thomas Mc Adams New Jersey 



THINK of having a living room in your 

 house with grass for a floor all winter, 

 flowers growing in real earth in a real border, 

 and birds flitting about, singing and enjoy- 

 ing the sunshine! That is what Mrs. John 

 W. Stewart of Glen Ridge, N. J., has accom- 

 plished, and in so doing she has invented a 

 new kind of winter garden, which is far more 

 interesting than many greenhouses that cost 

 twenty times as much. 



What use is a greenhouse anyhow if you 

 only go into it once a week to show it off to a 

 visitor? What comfort is there in a place 

 where you can't sit down because the air is 

 too hot and damD or the walks too wet? 



Why have a separate place that is only for 

 show anyhow? 



Mrs. Stewart wanted to have a genuine 

 living room where members of the family 

 could live happily with birds and flowers. 

 She decided to abolish hard cement walks 

 in favor of a miniature lawn and to do away 

 entirely with plants in pots. (They look ever 

 so much happier and more natural when 

 planted out in real earth at the level of your 

 feet than when perched on benches.) And 

 she decided to grow only those shrubs, bulbs 

 and flowers that like the same temperature 

 we do. After all, folks are more important 

 than plants. 



Here is a place to read or sew, to receive 

 one's friends, to take tea. There are chairs 

 in it, a table and plenty of room to walk 

 around without bumping pots off corners. 



There is a hillside covered with ferns and 

 water trickling down over them into a 

 miniature water garden. Forsythias bloom 

 in January near the glass and look out upon 

 the snow-covered yard which is enclosed by 

 stately trees. Hyacinths and tulips come 

 right up out of the soil, which looks good 

 enough to handle. A young magnolia is 

 bursting with the promise of flowers. 



Another unique winter garden is that of 

 Mrs. F. F. Thompson at Canandaigua. It 

 is really an aviary, consisting of two good- 

 sized greenhouses built especially for birds 

 from all parts of the world. 



The only drawback to originality in green- 

 house design is that the cost runs up very 

 quickly as soon as you leave behind the 

 standard sizes of greenhouse material. Yet 

 a winter garden like Mrs. Stewart's can be 



Why is tnis ga.aen so fascinating? (An explanation is attempted on page 234) A garden where gardens were thought impossible. The hedge stops ocean winds 



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