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the springtime comes and their garden instincts begin 
to bud; the preacher, the merchant, the lawyer, the 
doctor and the insurance man, all fall the easiest of vic- 
tims into the net of the first horticultural swindler that 
comes along; the veriest rustic of the country, is less 
apt to be caught. Itis wonderful the amount of credulity 
displayed by intelligent people on many matters pre- 
taining to horticulture as told by vendors of some 
things in that line; that they would laugh at if related 
in connection with any other matter They will buy 
Chinese Lily bulb that will grow to be a beautiful vine, 
and produce blooms of the most delicious fragrance in 
ten days, if placed only in a jaref water. A vendor of 
these bulbs has donea good business in this community 
recently, as the number of glass jars to be seen in win- 
dows attest containing these precious bulbs. The only 
fault with the vendor of this wonderful bulb is that he 
sold them too cheap; only asking a nick le a piece when 
he could have easily got twice the amount. They will 
buy a Clematis that will grow all over his house the first 
summer and have countless beautiful blossoms upon it. 
When any one familiar with these plans know they 
don’t grow with the rapidity of the Cobea of the Even- 
ing Glory, nor no they flaver abundantly the first sea- 
son after planting. They are plants that take time to 
produce their great beauty. The city experience with 
impostures in other lines helps nothing to the industri- 
ous merchant when he is to be met at his Suburban 
home by a faker with some extraordinary plant or bulb 
to offer. Their knowledge on these things are limited 
and thus they buy to ornament their homes with the 
freaks of the floral tribe when the purchase of a really 
desirable plant would not be thought of. 
There is much humbugging in the way of secrets in 
