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there is no call for them. He is mistaken. The (-alls last 

 spring took most of the stock, and what is left doubled in 

 value. If there was no call it is his business to make one. 

 That is what he is. here for. 



It is a shame to let the average Tom, Dick and Harry run 

 the nursery business and set the pace for the gi'andest calling 

 on earth and raise only what they call for. Horticulture 

 should have a higher mission than to secure the dollar, and 

 yet there are dollars in decency, refinement and improve- 

 ment. Let your motto be, "Beauty is wealth, therefore raise 

 a lot of it and be rich." 



Don't be the tail of the kite. Be the kite itself and let oth- 

 ers do the wagging to keep up with you. 



Too often the nurseryman waits for others to write things 

 up and create an interest ; then after a while he follows on to 

 reap where others have sown, often buying the cheapest and 

 selling at the prices which belong to the best. 



Seedsmen and florists are often at fault. I know of one 

 firm who buys peonies at from 5 to 10 cents apiece and then 

 push them up to |1, the price of choice ones. 



On the grounds of every nursery in these days of progress 

 there should be the finest collection of ornamentals and per- 

 ennials the world affords which are adapted to the soil and 

 climatic conditions. The nurseryman should stay with them, 

 get acquainted with them himself, have his salesman under- 

 stand them. They should be grown where the visiting neigh- 

 bors can see them. 



Perennials have come to stay. We, in springtime, find the 

 west is located at the busy end of the world. We are in the 

 center of a maelstrom where tremendous activities are surg- 

 ing all around us. We can not bother with annuals. We 

 must have perennials— something that will stay planted. 



REST FOB THE TIBED WIFE, 



PfovldencG has kindly marshaled for us a procession ot 

 beauty reaching from early springtime until the hard frostp 



