Rebuilding The Garden 
W ONDER if in your childhood days you 
recall your “elders” reading the then 
famous book of E. P. Roe’s, called “Driven Back 
To Eden”? 
In it, he told how “he and his” found the genuine 
joys of life, an important part of which was gar¬ 
dening. 
Now, happily for you, along comes F. F. Rock¬ 
well and starts “Rebuilding The Garden of Eden.” 
To rebuild Eden may sound 
a bit like the work being car¬ 
ried on in restoring the 
Parthenon. Or even the dis¬ 
turbing of some poor mum¬ 
mified Pharaoh from his 4000 
years nap. 
But it’s neither. 
It’s simply this garden lover 
telling of how he found the 
modern Garden of Eden in 
his glass-enclosed garden, as 
built with his own hands. 
Just listen to these words of 
his own. 
“When I could go into that 
little sunshine house and slip 
off my overcoat and ear 
muffs; and smell the geran¬ 
iums, and see the first bright 
flowers opening; and then 
watch the crackly-crisp let¬ 
tuce stretching its broad 
leaves to get every ray; and 
feel the genial sunshine strik¬ 
ing the back of my neck and 
go soothingly down my spine 
—then I knew that here at 
last was the real Garden of 
Eden. 
“When I looked out through 
that fraction-of-an-inch of 
glass, that separated my cozy 
fragrant Eden Spot from the 
snow-filled world,—sparkling 
cold, even in the noon sun, 
—then I marvelled, always 
marvelled, how any one who 
loved flowers, the touch of 
plants, and the wholesome 
vigorant smell of fresh earth, could get along 
without his or her Garden of Eden—a Greenhouse. 
“That first little greenhouse of mine was built in 
late December. 
“I promptly dug up about everything that was 
diggable from outside, and toted them into the 
greenhouse. 
“Rhubarb and Asparagus; Strawberries; Clumps 
of Lily of The Valley; Hardy Roses; Iris; Hardy 
Pinks; Phlox; Violets; Peonies; even things from 
the woods, such as Wild Columbine, Cranes Bill, 
and Bloodroot. 
“Of course, that wasn’t real orthodox greenhouse 
procedure. 
“But I didn’t know any better, and neither did 
the plants, as they all started to grow just as if it 
were an honest God-made Spring they had found. 
of Eden 
“All of which prompts me to 
urge you to think of your 
greenhouse, not as the old- 
time hothouse, but a de¬ 
lightful sunflooded, glass-pro¬ 
tected garden for your favor¬ 
ite flowers. 
“Flowers you can have that 
will grow outdoors in your 
climate; also vines, shrubs 
and perennials; anything 
you want at most any time 
you want it. 
“Think of your Crystal Gar¬ 
den as a place to lire in, to 
relax in, to play in. 
“A Veritable ‘Garden of 
Eden.’” 
.And now, as for our part in 
all this, we make these “Gar- 
dens-of-Eden.” 
In truth, for over half a 
century we have been doing 
it. 
So it’s rather safe to assume 
we know how it ought to be 
done. 
For further facts about what 
can be grown in a greenhouse, 
get Mr. Rockwell’s book, 
called “Gardening Under 
Glass.” It’s published by 
Doubleday, Page & Co. Costs 
$3.50. Worth many times 
its cost. 
As for the greenhouse, we'll 
gladly send you a charming 
Willow Green covered book¬ 
let that gives you just the 
information you need. 
Tord. &r fWnham(o. 
Builders of Greenhouses and Conservatories 
EASTERN FACTORY 
Irvington, N. Y. 
IRVINGTON, N. Y. 
New York 
CLEVELAND 
407 Ulmer Blda. 
NEW YORK 
30 E. 42nd St. 
KANSAS CITY 
WESTERN FACTORY 
Des Plaines, III. 
PHILADELPHIA 
Land Title Bldg. 
CANADIAN FACTOR.Y 
St. Catharines, Ont. 
CHICAGO 
Continental Bank Bldg. 
BOSTON-II 
Little Bldg. 
DENVER, 
TORONTO 
