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THE GUIDK T< ) NATURE 



THE HOME AND THE LAWN ARE NEAR TO A REVELRY OF PICTURESQUE NATURE. 



The first year after planting there there were few blossoms, not more than 

 were two blossoms. They remained sixty, because the roots were destroyed 

 uncut and dropped their seed. The by cutting the tops with the sickle in- 

 second year there were tw r elve bios- stead of with shears. Last summer 

 soms ; the third year fifty, and the next presented a wonderful display of hun- 

 two hundred. The summer following dreds of blossoms in spite of the 



MR. AND MRS. GOTTHOLD MAY WELL BE FOND OF THEIR DEVOTED, BEAUTIFUL AND 



INTELLIGENT COLLIES. 



