Education
In 1852, Annie Linda Hayr moved to Troy, New York where she attended Troy Female Seminary.
In 1852, Annie Linda Hayr moved to Troy, New York where she attended Troy Female Seminary.
Born in Northamptonshire, England, to John Hayr on 1 January 1839. At Hillside, over the next fifty years Annie Jack raised 11 children while also developing and maintaining her garden. She wrote about her experiences in The Rural New Yorker under the title " A Woman"s Acre." The American horticulturalist L.H. Bailey referred to Jack"s garden as "one of the most original gardens I know" Her husband died in April, 1900.
Jack was the author of the column on flowers and fruit "Garden Talks" in the Montreal Daily Witness, and published the first Canadian gardening book, The Canadian Garden: A Pocket Help for the Amateur (1903, with a second edition in 1910 in Toronto).
This remained the only Canadian gardening book available until after World War I, when Dorothy Perkins published Canadian Gardening Book (1918). She contributed to the Canadian Horticulturalist and she also wrote stories and poems for various newspapers and magazines including "Women"s Work in New Channels," for Harper"s Young People.
In 1902 she published a volume on the life of the French Canadian habitant called The Little Organist of Saint Jerome, and Other Stories.