David Fairchild - ...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and s

...the need for a garden of rare palms and vines and ornamental trees and shrubs which would be near enough to a growing city to form a quiet place where children with their elders could peer, as it were, into those fascinating jungles and palm glades of the tropics which have for generations stimulated the imaginations of American youth.

- David Fairchild

topic: Children, Garden, Cities, Elders, Horticulture, Quiet Place, American Youth, Tropics