FLOWERS IN SEASON 



take the greatest joy : It Is In the producing. We 

 owe dally thanks to Adam for our garden prac- 

 tise and our habit of work. A man who has 

 made things grow has been pleasantly and 

 healthfully occupied, his Imagination has been 

 enlarged, but he does not believe In print to the 

 same extent as before he began to read floral cat- 

 alogues. Still, there is no doubt that the people 

 who write catalogues, and more particularly, 

 illustrate them, wish that flowers did grow just 

 as they do on their pages. Why shouldn't they 

 wish It? As compared with usual blossoms of 

 the same names, theirs are as watermelons to 

 mangel-wurzels. 



In choosing flowers for the little garden you 

 will pick out enough at the beginning to fill some- 

 thing less than three acres. The array you con- 

 template is as magnificent as any in the demesnes 

 of royalty. But looking out upon the space at 

 your disposal, and the figures that represent your 

 bank-account, you sigh regretfully, run the blue 

 pencil through your order and begin the practise 

 of self-abnegation, which is alleged by those ad- 

 dicted to it to be good for one's morals. 



Up here In the temperate zone we can not 

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