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of the results. This being true, how can one 

 look over their tempting catalogues and deny 

 himself the innumerable good dinners suggested, 

 or forbear the chance of robbing life of its mon- 

 otony by surrounding one's path by all the colors 

 of the rainbow. Mr. Vick can insure that every 

 breeze through your open windows shall be like 

 the " gales of Araby the blest." 



Going into a seed store is like a ramble 

 through Dodd & Mead's, Randolph's, or Scrib- 

 ner's. The books you take up are so sugges- 

 tive of good things and good times. You know 

 you cannot read them all, but you look around 

 as the gourmand gloats over a sumptuous feast, 

 devouring with his eyes that which he sighingly 

 acknowledges as far too much for his capacity. 

 So the sample boxes and bins of seeds have for 

 the amateur gardener a strange fascination. He 

 stands over and daintily fingers them ; compares 

 one variety with another, wondering at the end- 



