AUGLAIZE GARDENS 
VAN WERT, OHIO 
letter as long or as short as you like. 
To everybody who writes us such 
a letter by October 15 we’ll send in 
return a Walter Faxon division at 
planting time. 
Get busy, mail man. 
Forty acres of fields and woods, 
painstakingly planted, landscaped and 
beautified. That’s Auglaize Gardens. 
Would you like to know something 
about our place? If so, read on. If 
you’re not interested, skip to the next 
article. 
Quite a few years ago we became 
interested in Peonies and Oriental 
Poppies. We bought stock from the 
best growers of the country and plant¬ 
ed it in a leased field along the Little 
Auglaize river, 10 miles from Van 
Wert. 
Hence the name, Auglaize Gardens. 
Soon after we got to the place 
where we could offer stock for sale, 
we began to look for a permanent lo¬ 
cation. Finally we purchased 40 acres 
along the Lincoln highway, two and 
one-half miles east of Van Wert. 
Then came the job of changing a 
farm into a garden. One of the rea¬ 
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