Fi»®m PETES. MEMDERSOM 



C0O. ^m'W YOMIi 



A Visit to the Home and Garden 



oi Jotin Jtlowarci x ayne "home, sweet home" 



Written Especially for this Catalogue by Mary Lydia Carpenter 

 SEE REPRODUCTION OF OIL PAINTING ON THE BACK COVER OF THIS CATALOGUE 



A COUNTRY road, now wooded and again giving 

 glimpses of the blue waters of the Atlantic; now 

 showing green meadows stretching to right and left, 

 reaching to far blue hills! I note with pleasure each changing 

 phase of the road!! At last the old house, covered with 

 wistaria, its white-curtained windows greeting me with kind 

 eyes; and when the white front door, embellished with a 

 brass laiocker opens, and I pass the threshold, it seems to 

 embrace me and bid me stay within its quiet peace. 



So this is the adorable httle house that inspired John 

 Howard Payne to write his immortal song; the house 

 where he spent his boy- 

 hood days. For two hun- 

 dred and ninety years/ it 

 has been a home; its hand- 

 he\^^l timbers held to- 

 gether by wooden spikes, 

 and its sturdy shingles 

 nailed with hand-'vsTOUght 

 nails, a permanent mem- 

 orial to the sacred love of 

 home which is the corner- 

 stone of the nation. At 

 the back of the house I 

 note the site of the old 

 garden. Probably in the 

 early days the flowers 

 shared it with the vege- 

 tables; but- now the latter 

 are banished and the 

 flowers have full posses- 

 sion.~ It is June, and there 

 is an abundance of roses; 

 sweet brier, too, and moss 

 roses. Pansies lift their 

 bright faces from borders 

 of sweet alyssum, dusty 

 miller, marvel-of-peru, co- 

 leus, forget-me-nots and 

 mignonette. Iris, lemon lilies and ribbon grasses nod in the 

 soft breezes. Peonies, red, wliite, and pink, sway gracefully 

 above their rich green leaves. A little later the garden lilies, 

 amaryllis, tuberoses, and other sweet-smelUng things, holly- 

 hocks, foxgloves, sweet peas, gladiolus, lady slippers and gay 

 poppies will make the garden a riot of beauty. Then later 

 flowers; nasturtiums chmbing the fence to peep at the road; 

 dainty cosmos, sturdy zinnias, crimson woolflowers, asters, 

 white, pink, lavender and purple, followed by everlasting 

 flowers, chrysanthemums and autumn foliage. I can imagine 

 winter laying new beauty over this garden. The apple tree, 

 the tall lilacs, the rose bushes and the small shrubs will be all 

 decked out in diamonds and ermine almost too fair to seem real 

 in their white purity; and nestling amid the whiteness the 

 old house glowing with the warmth and welcome of home. 



Then what must it be when spring comes and calls the 

 sleeping flowers. The crocuses are the first to answer the call. 

 Then the snowdrops shake their white bells, and the golden 

 daffodils answer; the hyacinth too, comes forth, and the tulips 

 vie with one another in brilliance. Soon the first yellow rose 

 opens to the sun, and this is the signal that summer has come. 

 So the year goes round. 



The charming "Home, Sweet Home" House in Washington, D. C, erected by 

 the General Federation of Women's Clubs; designed by Donn Barber after John 

 Howard Payne's famous house, and dedicated by President Harding on June 

 Fourth as,a National Demonstration House in the "Better Homes in America" 

 movement. The original house is pictured on the back cover of this catalogue. 



The sketch on this page is one of the replica of the house of 

 John Howard Payne, author of "Home, Sweet Home," which 

 was erected recently near the White House at Washington. 



This modernized ver- 

 sion of "Home, Sweet 

 Home" is the permanent 

 headquarters of the Gen- 

 eral Federation of Wom- 

 en's Clubs, and was built 

 to further the aims of the 

 Better Homes in America 

 Campaign. It was con- 

 structed under the super- 

 vision of Donn Barber, the 

 well-known architect. 



It was officially opened 

 on June 4th, 1923, by 

 President Harding, ground 

 having been broken for it 

 several weeks before by 

 Herbert Hoover. 



The general plan and 

 dimensions of the original 

 have been closely followed 

 except that a window has 

 been added onto the front 

 both upstairs and down, 

 making the entrance hall 

 exactly in the center of 

 the building. Also con- 

 crete blocks stuccoed, and 

 a black slate roof have been used instead of shingles. 



Our Back Cover 



We show on the back cover of this catalogue a picture 

 painted specially for us of the original "Home, Sweet Home" 

 at Easthampton, L. I., now owned by Mr. G. H. Buik. 

 This beautiful old home was built in 1660 in the style 

 characteristic of the period and in easily available materials — 

 cypress shingles covering a wooden frame. Donn Barber 

 describes it as "A shnple shed-roofed two-gable house, 

 rectangular in plan, with a small eU at one side of the rear — 

 dignified, direct and practical." 



The charm of the old garden indicated in our picture can- 

 not, of course, be duplicated in the Washington copy, but 

 quite suitable plantings have been made around it. 



A GARDEN BEAUTIFUL ^^^duced^^ith HENDERSON'S FAMOUS FLOWER SEEDS 



SEE PAGES 84 TO 129 



