116 FIVE ACRES TOO MUCH. 



place beside the tender production of the green 

 house ; and the refined habitue of the ballroom is 

 found to be twin sister to the wild inhabitant of the 

 open field or native forest. 



After some thought and careful consultation with 

 the price-lists of all the seed-stores in the city, lest 

 the utmost advantage should not be taken of the 

 market, a list including the following principal vari 

 eties was selected: roses, pinks, carnations, lilies, 

 fleur-de-lys, jasmines, peonies, verbenas, daisies, fuch 

 sias, heliotropes, tulips, dahlias, crocuses, tube-roses, 

 forget-me-nots, jonquils, wall -flowers, gillyflowers, 

 mignonnette, fox -gloves, and china - asters. There 

 were many others, but this selection is sufficient to 

 show that the garden was to be well stocked. It is 

 to be regretted that midsummer is not the most ap 

 propriate time to plant flowers, and that many of 

 them require to be set out in earliest spring, or 

 even the year before they are expected to blossom. 

 Drought is especially unfavorable to the sowing of 

 seeds or transplanting of roots, and the drought that 

 had already begun to distinguish this midsummer 

 positively forbade immediate action. 



It is my impression that in early youth I remem 

 ber reading of an ancient Roman who, having lost a 

 valuable ring overboard at sea, subsequently caught 



