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American whose daughter married a rather impoverished 

 young Englishman of very good connexions. He was, 

 however, scarcely important enough himself to attract 

 much attention : and the day before the wedding he was 

 nonplussed by his future mother-in-law, hitherto the most 

 silky and smiling of beings, taking him by the arm and 

 marching him round the displayed wedding presents, pausing 

 at every step to remark : " I do not see the present of your 

 uncle, Lord A. ! I do not see the present of your cousin, 

 Lady B. ! I do not see the present of your great aunt, the 

 Duchess of C.!"... 



We want to take the seedsman in similar fashion round 

 the greenhouse shelves : 



"Where are the pots of Mignonette ? " we will say. 

 " Where the serried ranks of Scarlet Verbena ? Where are 

 the potted Nicotianas ? " . . . 



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