The Garden Magazine, April, li)2u 
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And So, After That 
They Had a Perpetual 
Garden of Roses 
After all, it is the little things that do the really big things for us. 
Sometimes it's just one little thing. 
Leastwise, that is the way it was with this particular instance, 
that we have a notion you would like particularly to know about. 
Of course, it would be a deal more definite if we could tell 
you names and the place. 
Something the owners said, however, held a suggestion that it 
would be happier for them, if we didn’t. So, let’s call them 
the Put-Offs. 
All of which brings us to the happening itself. 
The one little happening that made it happen to the Put-Offs. 
Like a lot of us, they had long talked of having a Glass Garden; 
even to sending for a catalogue, with a request for a price; 
which, in itself, did not at all deter them. 
Nothing really seemed to prevent them buying one; still they 
just didn’t. 
Then one day when Mrs. Put-Off was spending a week-end 
with her old schoolmate, a little dinner was planned. 
It fell to her lot to go down to the greenhouse and pick some 
roses for the table. 
Mind you, it was the middle of winter, snowy and blowy; 
although the picture of the house itself, shown here, was taken 
last September. 
With each rose she picked, there came a distinctly new pleas- 
ure. A care-free joyousness. 
When with armsful of the queenly flowers, she walked out into 
the greenhouse work room, her mind was all made up. 
She knew that nothing could repeat and keep repeating that 
joy for her, but a Glass Garden all their own. 
And so — so little a thing as picking a bunch of roses, has 
brought about so big a thing as a perpetual garden of roses. 
A garden of roses and other flowers for the Did-Its — -for you 
will agree, their first name straightway ceased to fit. 
As building just such perpetual Gardens of Glass is our busi- 
ness, you cannot exactly blame us for hoping that the telling of 
this happy happening will be just the little thing that will make 
a similar one happen to you. 
Which shall it be — -a catalogue — or talk it over together? 
Tord> 15urnham(o. 
Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories 
IRVINGTON 
N. Y. 
BOSTON, 1 1 
Little Bldg. 
NEW YORK 
42nd St. Building 
CLEVELAND 
2063 E. 4th St. 
Eastern Factory 
Irvington, N. Y. 
PHILADELPHIA CHICAGO 
Land Title Bldg. Continental Bk. Bldg. 
TORONTO MONTREAL 
Royal Bk. Bldg. Transportation Bldg. 
Western Factory Canadian Factory 
Des Plaines. 111. St. Catharines, Ont. 
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