November, 1908 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



427 



A MINNESOTA FLOWER GARDEN 



By HENRIETTA P 



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' And flowers which fresh as Lapland roses are, 

 Lift their bold heads into the North's frore air, 

 And bloom most radiantly." 



—Shelley. 



fINNESOTA lies north of the forty-fifth 

 parallel, with a mean temperature of forty 

 degrees. It is commonly regarded, by our 

 Eastern friends at least, as a part of the 

 "Frozen North"; a region given up to bliz- 

 zards and ice palaces, where the mercury 

 seldom rises above zero, and is frequently 

 many degrees below. Who, then, would dream of seeing 

 the flowers and rare plants of the tropics, or at least of our 

 Southern States, in the full glory of a luxuriant growth and 

 magnificent flowering in a Minnesota flower garden? 



Perchance you are sceptical as to the reality of such a 

 garden. Well, then, come with me, and I will show it to 

 you, for I know the way. You walk along a woodsy path 

 for about a quarter of a mile from a Minnetonka Railroad 

 station, beneath fine old trees, survivals of the primeval 

 forest, and presently there is a "clearing," and you come 

 upon the summer home of Mr. W. O. Winston, a native 

 Virginian; hence the Southern garden at the North. 



The grounds embrace fifty- odd acres, but the garden 

 occupies only half of one. Groups of the fine old trees still 

 stand about it, like towering sentinels to guard the loveliness 













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The Duck Pond at the Foot of the Garden 



