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carefully coloured the illustrations in his catalogues, 

 the real flower standing in a glass before him, and 

 the names of the paints he employed set down, so 

 that he might more fitly describe the true colours 

 of the flower in the next catalogue compiled. They 

 were not always beautiful results he produced, but 

 there was something quaintly beautiful and withal 

 pathetic about them and him. 



Other growers there are whose tastes are 

 scientific, or perhaps for photography or the 

 microscope. These, too, are turned to account ; 

 exquisite photographs of flowers illustrate the 

 bulb lists ; patient examination of pollen and plant 

 parasites, careful and systematic experiments with 

 soils and fertilisers, give help and enlightenment 

 in the growing and varying of the bulbs. Others 

 there may be who have had some thought of 

 another profession before family circumstances 

 gave them to this life, but they are not the worse 

 growers on that account. They would not enlarge 

 leisure to practise arms if their tastes were military, 

 or to read theology if their leaning was towards the 

 ministry ; but they would be content to do their 

 duty truly and honestly, serve God and love their 

 neighbour, and give to the work they had under- 

 taken the whole of themselves. 



