The Garden Magazine, April, 1920 



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And So, After That 



They Had a Perpetual 



Garden of Roses 



After all, it is the little things that do the really big things for us. 



Sometimes it's just one little thing. 



Leastwise, that is the way it was with this particular instance, 



that we have a notion you would like particularly to know about. 



Of course, it would be a deal more definite if we could tell 



you names and the place. 



Something the owners said, however, held a suggestion that it 



would be happier for them, if we didn't. So, let's call them 



the Put-Offs. 



All of which brings us to the happening itself. 



The one little happening that made it happen to the Put-Offs. 



Like a lot of us, they had long talked of having a Glass Garden; 



even to sending for a catalogue, with a request for a price; 



which, in itself, did not at all deter them. 



Nothing really seemed to prevent them buying one; still they 



just didn't. 



Then one day when Mrs. Put-Off was spending a week-end 



with her old schoolmate, a little dinner was planned. 



It fell to her lot to go down to the greenhouse and pick some 



roses for the table. 



Mind you, it was the middle of winter, snowy and blowy; 

 although the picture of the house itself, shown here, was taken 

 last September. 



With each rose she picked, there came a distinctly new pleas- 

 ure. A care-free joyousness. 



When with armsful of the queenly flowers, she walked out into 

 the greenhouse work room, her mind was all made up. 

 She knew that nothing could repeat and keep repeating that 

 joy for her, but a Glass Garden all their own. 



And so — so little a thing as picking a bunch of roses, has 

 brought about so big a thing as a perpetual garden of roses. 

 A garden of roses and other flowers for the Did-Its — for you 

 will agree, their first name straightway ceased to fit. 



As building just such perpetual Gardens of Glass is our busi- 

 ness, you cannot exactly blame us for hoping that the telling of 

 this happy happening will be just the little thing that will make 

 a similar one happen to you. 



Which shall it be — a catalogue — or talk it over together? 



ord,& IJtirnham^o. 



Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories 



NEW YORK PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 



42nd St. Building Land Title Bldg. Continental Bk. Bldg. 



CLEVELAND TORONTO MONTREAL 



2063 E. 4th St. Royal Bk. Bldg. Transportation Bldg. 



Eastern Factory Western Factory Canadian Factory 



Irvington, N. Y. Des Plaines, 111. St. Catharines, Ont. 





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