THE MARY FRANCES GARDEN BOOK. 

 ^^^^ By Jane Eayre Fryer. 



n. ^ YOU desire your children to take an interest in garden- 

 Irv^ ^ ing and they have not shown a satisfying amount of en- 

 ILaM thusiasm, now is your opportunity, dear parents, to sow 

 the seed of the true gardener by introducing them to the "Mary 

 Frances Garden Book." It is so gayly illustrated, the text so 

 wisely sugar-coated, that children will, in reading it, absorb so 

 great an amount of garden medicine that they will never recover 

 from it, never! 



Any child who reads this book or has it read to them, from 

 beginning to end, is a gardener for life, and the bleak, cold Spring 

 months will no longer be endured with but little patience, A 

 set of really good garden tools, a generous number of packets of 

 seed and some bulbs will help the time to pass. 



I saw the effect of this garden book for children when two 

 little girls were so wrought up over my daily reading of a few 

 pages to them that then and there a little garden was made with 

 quick growing annuals, and there these children spent many 

 happy hours. Their plans for a next-Summer garden were made 



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