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five, six, or seven; then, you have got all those resources of your own, 

 intelligence and all those things which God has so richly provided right 

 at your hands that don't cost anything — you can have one of the most 

 beautiful homes outdoors you ever saw, and it would all belong to you, 

 too. Remember, I said beauty is wealth — why, one single carnation sold 

 for .$30,000, and that was the beginning of its history. Then, there is the 

 peony; there is money in the growing of these. We have heard of the 

 wealth of India and the treasures of the mine. They are nothing com- 

 pared with the wealth and riches that is all around us. You have heard 

 of that carpet of jewels made of sapphires, rubies and all the treasures 

 of India gathered together in one magnificent -carpet. You can have a 

 carpet far richer in beauty that that — yes, millions of people can have 

 it. It may not wear as long, perhaps, but while it lasts, oh, how beau- 

 tiful! 



Just think of it, beauty is woman's anyway. She suffers and she 

 pines for it, and sometimes she even dies for the lack of it. I met a 

 lady in Minnesota a few days ago. She was telling me of the desolation 

 of that way off Dakota farm where she nearly died. But her husband 

 went into the nursery business on a small scale and began to get flowers 

 and that woman has been dwelling in Elysium ever since. She has be- 

 come ten years younger. They kept .adding little more and little more 

 to their business. 



Suppose you have a humble home. You might better go to work and 

 adorn it than to wait for a larger one. Suppose, for instance, you get 

 peonies. They continue a long while in bloom. We have many varieties. 

 For some we have paid $5 and even SIO. They multiply very fast and 

 from a small planting in ten years there ought to be something like a 

 thousand. 



Then, there is the syringa and the honeysuckle. There is one which 

 is a marvelous plant from Manchuria. It is very vigorous and grows up 

 straight and is compact. Suppose you have a flower garden and 'surround 

 it with varieties of honeysuckle. There are many beautiful flowers that 

 will grow readily with very little care. 



Then, there are those phloxes. I have spent many years in the grow- 

 ing of phloxes and have published a work on phloxes so that if any man, 

 woman or child cares to they can produce even finer ones than I have. 

 I have succeeded in getting thirty different varieties. I have made in- 

 structions so plain in this manual than any child, even, if direction^ 

 are followed, can grow them with success. The children are delighted 

 with the beauty of those creations of their own. One gentleman said that 

 from some seedlings there was one flower he would not take 310, and that 

 from another he was selling at 50 cents apiece. With a little care and 

 research you will get at the fountain head. 



This study is one of the most beautiful experiences that you can 

 have and you don't know when to stop. You are in the very land of 

 Elysium, the land of delight. Commence raising phlox and when you 



