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in fruit. The only thing that can be done at 

 present is to buy the seeds at twenty-five cents 

 per half dozen or so 



But as far as names are concerned, the vege- 

 tables get off very well. It is when we turn to 

 the flowers that our deepest sympathies are 

 aroused. Here is a poor little plant, six inches 

 high at the best, overwhelmed with " Kaulfussia 

 amelloides atroviolacea." What a wrong is 

 done to the pretty modest little flower ! I would 

 not put this name on a label over the seed, for 

 it would never dare come up. Imagine a lisp- 

 ing young lady asking a bashful young man to 

 go into the garden and make her a bouquet of 

 " Agrostemma," " Asperula azurea setosa," 

 " Dianthus Heddewigii flore pleno atropurpure- 

 us," " Phlox Drummondii Radowitzii Kerme- 

 sina striata," " Helichrysum brachyrrhinchum," 

 and a few more pretty little blossoms. And 

 yet, Mr. Vick and others gravely offer these 



