It seemed to many to be the essence of what the Garden Club 
OF America stands for, the sort of exhibit toward which we should 
aim in the flower shows. 
On a whole, the Garden Club exhibits were quite free from the 
professional influence — Mr Fairchild's marvelous Connecticut Winter 
Garden is a case in point — most original in conception and minutely- 
carried out. It must have taken months to collect, plan, mould this 
exquisitely dainty table-garden of native plants. The dimensions 
were about 2 feet by 4 feet. It was composed of deHcate seedHng 
Cedars and Hemlocks; Mosses, Lichens, Laurel and other Ever- 
green pigmies which can be found in our woods in Winter. The rocks 
used were particularly beautiful and were chosen with great care 
and placed in correct relation to the miniature landscape. In a 
flower show it could receive no more than the silver medal for a 
novelty as there were no flowers in it. But had there been a prize 
offered for a Japanese arrangement or a miniature garden it would 
have won much more. 
A Garden nsr an Aerie 
TO A. R. Y. 
I stand where the great deep o'erwhelmeth me, 
Where spuming mountains throw their blinding spray, 
Where false, half simken, cruel ledges lay, 
Primeval monsters, threatening the lee. 
Through the dark hills behind no pass I see, 
Liu-ed by the scented pine and perfimied bay 
No path I find, for blocked is every way, 
And I am wrapped in fearsome mystery. 
I turn, surroimded by a vine clad wall 
I see a garden in a glacier bed, 
Transformed by wizard cunning and by art. 
Thyme, spike and umbel and the wild bird call 
Beguile the senses, still the troubled heart, 
As I through the enchanted spot am led. 
Augtist, 191 3, 
Pemaquid Harbor John H. Loman 
{Mrs. Yorke's Seashore Garde n.) 
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