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Every other evening cut all the blossoms that 

 begin to fade and you will be rewarded in the 

 morning with a few hundred more of the ravish- 

 ing beauties. It seems like a dream. 



P.S. — If you haven't time to go to all the 

 trouble indicated in the foregoing, have some of 

 Burbanks's Art Shirleys (which you can get 

 only from him), anyhow. Scatter the seeds 

 anywhere, and be sure to have them in your 

 mixed bed. They give me so much pleasure 

 that I have three successive sowings every 

 summer. Picked very early in the morning, 

 they make ravishing bouquets for the house 

 which will last several days if you stick an inch 

 of the stems in boiling water for half a minute 

 immediately after picking. 



