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greatest profusion, and insure not only a return for 

 the fruit, but a good income by the sale of offshoots. 

 So Patrick was directed to inform the nurseryman 

 that I wanted a new kind, just discovered and supe 

 rior to all that had preceded it. This request, though 

 natural enough to any man who had studied the work 

 referred to, must have seemed strange to the nursery 

 man, who was probably not literary, and who came 

 back with Patrick to see about it. 



He said he had several new varieties, but he was 

 not entirely satisfied that they were better than the 

 common ones. There w r as one, however, that prom 

 ised well, called the Bonheur Seedling ; but it had 

 not been tested thoroughly. By-the-by, what excel 

 lent scholars all market gardeners are. Their ordi 

 nary language is Greek and Latin, and their nearest 

 approach to that of common mortals, French. They 

 overwhelm you with incomprehensible terms that 

 early reminiscences assure you must be from one of 

 the dead languages, and call every-day fruits Duch- 

 esse d* Angouleme, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Belle Lu 

 crative^ Triomphe de Gand, and so forth. I was not 

 surprised, therefore, at hearing the new strawberry 

 called &quot; Bonheur Seedling,&quot; and rather took to the 

 name as an omen of good luck. Without more ado, 

 I ordered two thousand of the &quot; Bonheur Seedling,&quot; 



