“WILDHURST” 
A NEW YORK BUSINESS MAN’S FARM 
THE ENTRANCE TO THE FARM 
By L. W. BROWNELL 
S ITUATED in the Hackensack Valley, some 
twenty odd miles from New York and within 
easy access, by train, of that city, lies one of the 
most charming country homes that it has been the 
writer’s good fortune to visit. 
It is owned by a New York business man, who 
travels to and from the city almost daily and who 
considers the journey no hardship, or too much to 
pay for the pleasures and comfort which he derives 
from living in the country. 
Why many more people do not live in this way is a 
source of wonderment, for it is only by escaping the 
sordid life of a great city that one can really live as it 
was intended man should. In the country, life is 
fuller, more rounded and perfect, filled with a never 
ending succession of new and healthy interests; 
while in the city it is necessarily narrow, limited as it 
is by the everlasting brick walls and asphalt pave¬ 
ments. Of late years, however, many have had their 
eyes opened to the beauties and pleasures of country 
life and numbers of those who once thought the city 
the only place in which to live have become converted 
and are gladly calling themselves country residents. 
The country which lies between the upper end of 
the Palisades and the Ramapo Mountains is not 
only beautiful, but extremely fertile. The towns 
are all small, set here and there among the farm lands. 
The view in all directions from any eminence shows 
a rolling country dotted vv ith houses and interspersed 
by patches of woodland, and field after field of 
standing crops, for the farmer of this section often 
raises two or even three crops from the same piece 
of land, and patches of bare ground are rare. It is 
also a good fruit growing section and orchards of 
peach, apple and pear trees are plentiful. 
In the midst of this lies “ Wildhurst, ” and of all 
situations of this charming section of the country its 
site is the most beautiful. 
This farm is not a plaything or merely the coun¬ 
try place of a man whose entire interests are centered 
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