One of the hillside gardens at "The Terrace 
The Terraces— An Introduction 
When a boy of iS, I Ijcgan to do "a man's work in I lu- world" as a school 
teacher. I had ah-cady begun the collection of Ihe wihl plants, bulbs and 
seeds of my home region for an eastern I'lrm, which firsl icalized ihe trade 
possil)ilities of the native American plants. During the next nine \cars, my 
vacations were given up to botanizing and collecting, my trips became longer, 
my customers more numerous and my gardening experience wider. In 1888, 
