THE PURPOSE 
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Garden In The Woods is a dream in the realization, a 
years long dream about a big Wild Garden and finding out 
why Wild Flowers will grow here and not there. It is a 
tract of beautiful woodland and meadow only nineteen 
miles from Boston, where I am bringing together all the 
Wild Flowers and Ferns hardy in this latitude and estab¬ 
lishing them in natural environments where they can 
easily be reached and enjoyed by the interested public. In 
other words it is a Wild Flower Sanctuary in which wild 
plants will be grown, their likes and dislikes discovered and 
the knowledge so gained eventually passed on in an effort 
to curb the wholesale destruction of our most beautiful 
natives. This is to be my contribution to conservation. 
Contributions of unusual or different plant material will 
be greatly prized and carefully preserved. 
It is also a Wild Flower Farm from which surpluses will 
be sold to those having proper environments in which to 
grow them and which it is hoped will eventually make the 
place self supporting. 
Sincerely yours, 
WILL C. CURTIS. 
