HARMEL PEONY CO., BERLIN, MD. 

Jo. Our Customer Friends: 
Just a few lines to say that we greatly appreciate 
the very fine business which has come to us during the 
past thirty years, and to assure you that it is our sincere 
desire to continue to merit the confidence and patronage 
of our customers. 
During these very trying times, most of us turn to 
our gardens for solace, and we anticipate that more 
flowers will be planted and taken care of than ever before. 
Without comment, we pass along to you a bit of 
encouraging advice:— 
YOUTH 
(Copied from American Peony Society Bulletin) 
YOUTH is not a time of life—it is a state of mind. 
It is not a matter of red lips and supple knees; it is a 
temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor 
of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. 
YOUTH is the predominance of courage over timidity, 
the love of adventure over the life of ease. No one grows 
old by merely living a number of years; they grow old 
only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the 
skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. 
Worry, doubt, fear, and despair—these are the long 
years that bow the head and turn the youthful spirit back 
to dust. Whether sixteen or sixty, there is in every 
being’s heart the love of wonder, the sweet amazement 
of the stars, the unfailing, childlike appetite for what 
next, and the joy of the game of life. 
You are as young as your faith, as young as your 
self-confidence; you are as old as your despair. In that 
central place of your heart there is a wireless station; so 
long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, cour- 
age, grandeur and power from the earth, from _men, and 
from the infinite, so long are you young. When the 
wires are down—and all the central place of your heart 
is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of 
cynicism—then you are grown old indeed.—(Author un- 
known, Western Life News.) 
Cordially yours 
HARMEL PEONY COMPANY. 

