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I Stand for Saner, Happier 

 Living, and More Prosperity 



Certain elements in modern life make people old before their time. 

 Making a living or keeping up the business pace lias been likened to 

 a huge monster which consumes great numbers of us every year. City 

 folk-;, and those in lines of trade are worn out the quickest, but far- 

 mers have their struggles, too. 



You can get away from 

 the Rush and Struggle 



Wherever you live, whatever you do, you can leave this condilion 

 behind. The nightmare of rush and struggle does not follow those 

 who get back to the soil and practice intensive cultivation growing 

 berries. With five acres you can be independent, with twice that or 

 more you can become rich; or with one or two acres you can find 

 relaxation, and re-create what the monster already has consumed. 



It seems to me that the solutions of the high cost of living problem, 

 the health problem, the independence problem, the effective recrea- 

 tion problem all lie in planting more berry farms. In growing berries 

 there's money to be made, there's health and enjoyment to be had, 

 and there's work you can be proud of. You don't need to go far away, 

 you don't have to cut loose entirely from your other work. 



Learn the Facts from My 

 Many Years of Study 



I've studied this situation for a good many years; I have been pro- 

 ducing and testing berries of every kind; the results are summed up 

 in the Berrydale Berry Book for this year. In it I've told what are 

 the best berries to plant; have described among others, the Himalaya 

 Berry, that perennial resembling blackberries, but bearing fruit on 

 old and new wood like a fruit tree. This description and the talk on a 

 rive-acre berry farm are worth getting. The book is free. Send your 

 address now, before you lose my address. 



A. MITTING, Manager 



BERRYDALE EXPERIMENT GARDENS 



GARDEN AVE. HOLLAND, MICH. 



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Let Me Help Build You 

 a "Fairyland" Garden 



One of my customers describes Farr's Iris "Wyomissingr" 

 as " blooming in every fairy color " — a happy phrase and an 

 ideal description. Wyomissingr Nurseries are a veritable fairy- 

 land tome — an enchanted spot wherein I constantly find new 

 joys and where life, to me and to my dear ones takes on new 

 brightness and glory every day as new flower-wonders unfcld 



A Well-known Author Writes of My Work: 



"At Wyomissingr Nurseries Mr. Farr grows Irises, Phloxes, 

 and Hardy Plant Specialties, of greater variety and magnifi- 

 cence than are to be found anywhere else in the world. Ber- 

 trand H. Farr is a man of the Henry David Thoreau type: 

 only where Thoreau was content to admire and describe, Mr. 

 Farr must evolve and make the beautiful even more beauti- 

 ful. Mr. Farr, like Thoreau, does live in a fairyland." 



"Farr's Hardy Plants"— a Book That Will Delight Your Heart 



and convert you to a more passionate love for the growing 1 

 things. This book will help you make "fairyland" of your 

 own garden. I shall be glad to send you a copy. 



Bertrand H. Farr, Wyomissing Nurseries 



643-D Penn Street Reading, Pennsylvania 



Have you a dark or shady corner in your garden ? 



Tuberous Rooted Begonias 



will flourish there and brighten it with 

 a gorgeous glow of bloom all through 

 Summer and far into Autumn. If 

 you want Early Flowers start the 

 bulbs now in the house in moss fibre. 



We send with every purchase 



" Full directions how to start 

 Begonias in the house" 



Single flowering in separate colors. White, rose, scarlet, apple blossom, Each 12 100 



yellow, orange, salmon 06 .50 4.00 



All colors mixed 05 .45 3 .00 



Double flowering look like Camellias or Balsams — Very floriferous. 



In separate colors. White, scarlet, crimson, rose, yellow, salmon 10 1.00 6.00 



All colors mixed 10 .75 5.00 



Rare Sorts of Begonias 



The exquisite Butterfly Begonia. Colors scarlet, orange, pink spotted 



white 15 1.50 10.00 



Giant Frilled Begonia. Immense single flowers, the petals elegantly 



fringed and frilled 20 2.00 15.00 



Begonia Lafayette. The most intense fiery scarlet double flowering Begonia 



in existence — form a mass of glowing colors from June till frost 20 2.00 15.00 



For a shady nook nothing compares in beauty with a background of tall ferns with the 

 magnificent colors of Begonias in foreground. 

 Begonias do equally well in open sunshine. 



Prices include delivery 



Our seed offer of February holds good for March. Send for our Ideal Garden Book for Spring 

 1912, 104 pages richly illustrated — Art Covers. Address 



H. H. BERGER & CO. 



70 WARREN ST. NEW YORK 



Field's Early June Tomato 



Earlier by a week than standard early kinds; as smooth and handsome as the best; as 

 solid and seedless as the latest improved varieties; more prolific than the heaviest yielder 

 I know of. My seed is produced by the originator — is absolutely pure and all will grow. 

 Field varieties and Field Seeds are uniformly of the very highest quality. 1 grow 

 my seeds so I /(now they are pure. I test them for germination, so I can absolutely 

 guarantee them to grow. 



I want you to get some "Field " Experience this Year 



I've told you how we do things, along with much general seed information, in my 1912 

 Annual Catalog. It describes Early June Tomato at length, gives the facts just as though 

 you and I were here talking, with a field of them before us. Corn, cabbage, potatoes, 

 onions, and other seeds are talked of in the same way. It is a book worth having. I've 

 put my best into it, just as I do into my seeds. Get your copy early by sending me 

 your name and address in tomorrow's mail. 



HENRY FIELD, PRESIDENT, Private Desk 101 



Henry Field Seed Company, Shenandoah, Iowa. 



