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And so we might go on, but time goes too. Some 

 persons delight in flowers and make money by them. 

 From 5,000 to 6,000 worth a day are sold in 

 London, or 30,000 worth a week. But apart from 

 that, nothing better indicates the presence of thought, 

 thrift, refinement, and love of home than flowers, few 

 or many, where they can be grown about the dwell- 



Fia. 37. GATHERING AND WEIGHING STRAWBERRIES NEAR SWANLEY, KENT. 



ings of the people. In the so-called "paradise of 

 small holdings " in Belgium the homes are flowerless 

 and miserable-looking ; men, women, children and 

 dogs, yoked to barrows, slave on the land from dawn 

 till dark, in a way we should not like to see around 

 the village homes of England. 



Another word about fruit, to introduce a busy scene 



