HOW TO BE RICH WITH A LITTLE LAND. 



are true to name but of common quality — 

 honest but poor. They came from poor plants 

 and will grow poor plants. 



Do you know what a first-rate seed is ? It 

 is bred up, just as a horse or cow or dog or 

 hen is. Vegetables and flowers are poor in 

 their natural state ; they are fair in their usual 

 state ; they are rich in the proper seedsman's 

 proving ground. And the richer they are the 

 more unstable they are ; they tend back, as 

 water runs down hill. 



A first-rate vegetable or flower seed goes 

 back to a lower grade as soon as it ceases to 

 feel the seedsman's care. This care is not 

 cultivation ; it is sorting out and breeding up. 



Caleb trusts no seedsman's seeds in the next 

 generation. He gathers no seeds himself; he 

 buys of his seedsman every year; and so does 

 Mrs. Jones. 



You see, the farmer's and gardener's first 

 anxiety is, not plows and harrows, but seeds. 

 Any plow will plow ; any harrow will harrow ; 

 but first-rate seeds he must have, or fail in his 

 crops. Most gardeners fail and don't know it. 



How did Caleb and Mrs. Jones pick out 

 their seedsman ? They saw an advertisement — 

 here it is : — 



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