XIV AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
February, 1911 
AHardy Flower Garden 
—What It Means To Me 
and May Mean to You 
TO ME:—I: means Inspiration, TO YOU:—It may mean Home, Rest, 
Gealth, Life—a surrender to a Recreation—a_ retreat where you for- 
“great fondness’? for Growing get the cares of the business world; a 
Things, where I have ‘found my- place of old associations and tender 
self” and come to the realization memories of other days. 
of the joys of an occupation that Perhaps an old-time Garden whose 
aslds returns not to be m-asured treasures planted by other hands still 
oy a standard of dollars. live, uniting the living Present with the 
First, there was a boy’s Garden dead Past, bridging a chasm of years. 
on a prairie farm; then a great city, | Perhaps but a tiny spot of brightness, 
with ‘fa nameless longing,” till one | surrounded by a desert of brick and 
day my doctor said: ‘‘Go back to the mortar. Maye your Garden is but a 
country and dig.” Finally, a man’s dream of the future, a new creation to be 
Garden that long since overflowed out yours in the making, when the House 
into the open fields—a glorious riot of You Live In will give place to the House 
color; an intoxication of floral delight, and Garden which together make the 
‘rom Peonies, Iris and Poppies. etc. complete home beautiful. 
“Farr’s Hardy Plants”—A Book 
as it has been to others. One writes: ‘‘Your catalogue is a joy—I have read "RA 
it through. You have put into it what most of the others so studiously leave out, | 
—a love for the flowers they offer. What impresses me most is the undertone of | 
sincerity throughout.” 
If you receive the book, you also may wish to write and tell me about YOUR 
garden. If I can help you I will be glad, for among my most prized tre sures are 
many such letters, whose tender sentiments, so beautifully expressed, have helped 
me feel that I have found a place in the esteem of the writers. 
Besides the wonderful collections of Irises and Peonies that have made Wyomis- 
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