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MICROBES AND THE MICROBE-KILLER. 



expended many thousands of dollars in improvements 

 such as are seldom seen in the nursery business. 



In addition to flowers I had gone into fish culture. I 

 had five pools well stocked with German carp, and as 

 my health improved I felt myself young again, more 

 anxious than ever before to enjoy the pleasures of the 

 life I had prepared for myself, and more enthusiastic 

 also in my work. A steam pump supplied five hundred 

 gallons of water per minute, and my fountains were 

 filled with goldfish. The rosery contained a beautiful 

 collection of the finest flowers, and thousands of people 



WM. kadam's nursery (thirty acres). 



had come to admire it and to wander in amazement 

 among acres of pear trees, fruit trees, and vines of all 

 descriptions, and flowers without number growing 

 in the greatest luxuriance under the warm southern 

 sun. 



To a lover of Nature the delights of such surroundings 

 are more than it is easy to describe, and they are in- 

 creased when is added the feeling that they are one's own 

 production, the result of one's own conception and labor. 

 It is no easy matter to tear one's self from such sur- 



