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prices are still about correct, but the maximum prices have 

 jumped almost out of sight. Every year there are more 

 and more very wealthy people who will pay nearly any 

 price for the very best. The world seems to be dividing into 

 those who have to count their pennies and those who couldn't 

 count their thousands. Of course, where war has prohibited 

 the importation of the strong bulbs and roots needed for 

 forcing flowers, the prices are about what any one who has 

 any chooses to ask. Monopoly can always get its own price. 



This New Edition does not attempt to bring prices quoted 

 up to date. In these times not even a stock exchange tele- 

 graph ticker can do that. Prices of goods in general have 

 advanced at least 80 per cent. By the day that this book is 

 off the press they may have decreased, or more likely ad- 

 vanced some more. The next day they may slump. Prices 

 of labor advance more slowly and do not slump so fast. 

 Wages of men gardeners have risen perhaps 50 per cent in the 

 last ten years, but women and children have learned to do 

 much of the work. They do the work cheaper because 

 most of them have some one on whom they can partly depend 

 for support. 



Similarly, when an example of total product given in the 

 earlier edition is still typical and has stood investigation, it 

 is not discarded in favor of a more modern instance. 



It would have been easy to have revised all the figures, 

 but of little advantage to our readers. For example, it is 

 encouraging to the citizen to know that the average wheat 



'There is a chance for big money growing those vigorous stocks at 

 home. Many a woman could learn to do it in her room. Don't 

 try to sell the bulbs, grow the lilies and sell those ; a few at ten dol- 

 lars per dozen will go a great way. When you know all about it, 

 then go to the country to do it on a commercial scale. Wait till you 

 have learned : it won't take all your time. 



