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plant and in brightness of color, until 

 the back row flamed up with the grand, 

 gaudy Gladiolas. It was truly a 

 transformation scene. Each plant pos- 

 sessed a beauty of its own, but, in the 

 proper combination, eacli plant helped 

 add to the beauty of those near it. 

 Twenty minutes of work — and it did not 

 seem possible that I was gazing at the 

 same lot of flowers. What I especially 

 admired was the ^rt^^with which all of 



this was done. There was no trying 

 for effect to see if it would look well 

 this way or that way. Mr. Grainger 

 simply said: 'Put this pot there, put 

 this one over in that corner, raise up 

 that Coxcomb a little higher, " etc., and 

 when the changes had all been made, 

 he gave it one comprehensive glance, 

 and we walked on. 



Flint, Mich., Sept. 19, 1905. 



ialle Yotir Btssiness a 



R. G. AIKIN. 



FRIEND HUTCHINSON, it seems 

 you are still harping on the string 

 that sings the tune of more bees and 

 out-apiaries. I wonder if you, or any 

 of your readers, really know why we 

 ought to keep more bees, or why we 

 ought to enlarge in any kind of 

 business. 



don't have the eggs all in one 



BASKET. 



Away back in the early volumes of 

 the Review, when you had specialism 

 as one of the topics, I argued that 

 when one could not afford to risk his 

 life in one thing, that is, if a man was 

 poor, and could have only a small 

 business, and must have tlie income 

 from his labor month by month to live 

 upon, it was best to have the eggs 

 divided so that in case one basket fell 

 he did not lose all. I still consider 

 that good advice; but I still advise just 

 as I did then, that every one should 

 strive to excel in some one line and 

 make that his specialty. The poor man 

 with children to feed, and nothing 

 ahead to put into a business that he 

 can afford to miss its annual income, 



takes a very heavy risk that may 

 cause him to lose his all. 



As business is carried on these times, 

 so long as there must be a change of 

 product between distant parts of the 

 country, there must be middlemen and 

 transportation that seriously effect 

 every producer more or less, and is 

 hardest by all means, on the poorer 

 and those of limited means and limited 

 jiroduction. 



KNOW something OE EVERYTHING AND 

 EVEKYTHING OK SOME ONE THING. 

 All things considered, when a man 

 has chosen a line of business that shall 

 be his specialty, and that in which he 

 proposes to excel, or become more than 

 ordinarily ]iroficient, the wise business 

 policy is to enlarge in that one thing, 

 possibly dropping all else, that he may 

 give his entire time and attention to 

 his specialty. I say give his entire 

 time, but I do not mean that he is to 

 think of nothing else, or to do nothing 

 else; man is so constituted that if he 

 does not use all of his faculties and 

 powers he will surely become one- 

 sided and weak, both mentally and 



