Old Flower Favorites 



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money plants was not equal in value to the great 

 copper cents of the village store ; and when he 

 asked gleefully for a loaf of bread or a quart of 



Box Walk in Garden of Frederick J. Kingsbury, Esq. 

 Waterbury, Connecticut. 



molasses, was just as apt to offer the shining seed 

 valves in payment as he was to give the coin ot 

 the land; and it must be added that his belief re- 

 ceived apparent confirmation in the fact that he usu- 

 ally got the bread whether he gave seeds or cents. 



