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J. Horace McFarland

Vintage photo of J. Horace McFarland looking over a garden with pagoda in background

The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard of: J. Horace McFarland

October 15, 2024 at 12:30 pm

He had a great appreciation for roses, ink, and paper. He lavished as much attention on national parks in the U.S. as he did on his own garden. If you don’t recognize the name J. Horace McFarland, you’re not alone. He might be the most famous man you’ve never heard of. McFarland (1859 – 1948) […]

Vintage photo of woman holding a garden rake while opening gate in white picket fence surrounding a vegetable garden

Preserving Our Garden Heritage One Pixel at a Time

April 8, 2016 at 6:51 pm

What better way to celebrate National Garden Month in April than to spend some time enjoying historic garden images from the J. Horace McFarland Company Collection!  Thanks to a Smithsonian preservation grant, thousands of images from this collection at the Archives of American Gardens (AAG) were digitized recently and are now available online through the […]