THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
303 
GARDENS WITH A DUAL PURPOSE 
In Connection with the J. Horace McFarland Co., Harrisburg, Pa. 
In these days we freijiiently hear that business houses 
have assumed new fields of aetivity which at first appear 
entirely irrelevant. 
Such a departure made itself evident upon the evening 
of .lune 11, when the employees of the Mount Pleasant 
Press were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. .). 
llorac(‘ McFarland, in the suburbs of Harrisburg. Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
The affair took place in tln^ garden of “Breeze Hill,” for 
it was here that Mr. McFarland made trial of two very 
secMlsman and nuFsiuyman knows th(‘ value of the pic¬ 
ture; in disposing of his stock, and he would as epiiekly 
think of giving up adve'rtising as to omit illustrations. 
Furthermore*, he; insists that nature shall ne)l he fe)ire*d 
te) maseiue'raele* uneh'r an ameiunt e»f fruit and hlossoni far 
greater than a “suburbanite;’s” wildest mielwinte'r pipe 
dream. To satisfy the dernanel feir ae*curate and valiiahh; 
pictures, carefully traine'el [ilmleigrapheis make* leeng je)ni- 
neys, often loaching their elestinatiein at an unfavorable 
time. A northern arti.st eannot ste*p eeut to the* oi-angc 
The Flower Garden at “Breeze Hill,” Home of ./. Horace McFarland. 
elefinite ideas, which were apparent upon that evening 
anel w hich are being w orked out at the pre.sent time. 
Of course the first purpose of every garden is to be 
beautiful, and without doubt that ideal has been thor¬ 
oughly accomplished. Thousands of blossoms appear 
('verywhere, and theii’ arrangement in semi-formal style, 
with little grass paths, is delightful. Even the inten¬ 
sively cultivated fruits and vegetables offer an appeal to 
the practical mind. 
The second purpost* is more serious and mojc closely 
united with the work of the Mount Pleasant Press. Every 
grove of an evening to see how tin* Lm* (lim (longs <ir(* 
ripening; nor can he at the same time snap tin* new vai- 
iety of Darwu’n tulips just at their jirinn*, in tin* north. 
whole regiment of workers could not a(h*(pjately cover 
the field. In such a dilemma it is (*asier to bring tin* 
country to the man, foi' although Floiida's climat«* w ill 
not come to Pennsylvania, a veiy lai’ge numh«*r of ])la<‘(*s 
may be duplicated and the eori’esponding trips avoided. 
In the Breeze Hill gardens in*arly ideal conditions (*xist. 
Each variety of plant is consult(*d for its own particular 
kind of environment, r<*sulting in an «*xceedingly pros- 
