OUR BIRTHDAY 



T is with a certain sense of satisfaction that I record Our 

 Garden Journal's second birthdaj^ It has alway s seemed 

 to me that birthdays are days that should be accorded their 

 deserved dignity, and I natnrally feel gratified on Our Garden 

 Journal having reached its second birthday. 



Birthday-time, I feel, is an excellent time to panse and con- 

 sider what has come to us on the highway. And there comes to 

 my mind letters received during the year relative to Our Garden 

 Journal not telling in print the names and addresses of firms 

 ^^'here certain seeds and plants mentioned in the various numbers 

 are obtainable. In a measure these letters are justifiable, but had 

 I given the names and addresses of firms, where all the novelties 

 I have mentioned A\ ere obtainable, I believe, and I believe you 

 believe (or at least I think so) that perliaps, after all, it would 

 seem somewliat in the nature of paid advertisements. HoAvever, 

 I feel it quite unnecessary to say that no amount of advertising- 

 can in any way influence the text pages of Our Garden Journal. 

 Therefore, if you find your seedsman or plantsman is unable to 

 supply you with any or all of the varieties I have spoken of, -or T 

 speak of, if you" will write Our Garden Journal the names and 

 addresses of the various firms who can supply the varieties you 

 desire will be sent .you. Naturally, as has heretofore been tlie 

 case, the supply of novelties usually has been exhausted within 

 a week or so after the issuance of each niimber of Our Garden 

 -Journal^ so I suggest that if there are any varieties you desire 

 which your usual supply house cannot provide you Avith, that you 

 write Our Garden Journal at once. 



ELINORE E. HARDE. 



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