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will find that they are either fading or revived 

 with salt and will not keep. That they are so 

 peddled, shows that everyone wants flowers, 

 those angels without souls. Even common 

 flowers will bring good profits and are easily 

 grown. We have only to supply a want to find 

 our place in life. 



Sweet peas, a favorite flower with many, may 

 be grown out of doors in the summer where the 

 soil is of good depth and quality. Mayblos- 

 soms, autumn leaves on the branch, and even 

 goldenrod are brought into town and sold at 

 good prices. 



Bachelor buttons, cosmos, and even nastur- 

 tiums, which you can't keep from growing, if 

 you just stick the seed in the ground, or lilies 

 of the valley, hardly to be got rid of when once 

 started, all find a market, if fresh. And the 

 best of it is that one does not even need a green- 

 house to grow them and many other dear fa- 

 miliar garden blossoms. 



No soil, however hard or apparently barren, 

 is too poor for flowers. Eben Rexf ord, in " Four 

 Seasons in a Garden," says that the ground of a 



