ten] among the flowers 



wherever a strawberry bed has been, even twenty 

 years before — in gardens or in grass. They will do 

 no harm, but will glorify your property, while you 

 will be able to pick them by the armful. This is 

 the way to have all that you can want of this mag- 

 nificent flower, all that you can admire, and all that 

 you can give away. Besides, you can sell or give 

 away the bulbs by the hundred, and start an honest 

 tulip mania all around the town. If this chapter 

 does no other good than to teach you how to grow 

 tulips easily, and enough of them, it will be quite 

 enough to repay me for writing it. 



A good collection of roses is much more rare 

 than it ought to be. I am afraid that this is be- 

 cause growers confuse buyers with indiscriminate 

 praise of hundreds of sorts, most of which need 

 special culture. It is also in part due to the fact 

 that we cannot cure country people of the habit of 

 entertaining agents and buying their extraordinary 

 and impossible offerings. As a rule, these peri- 

 patetic peddlers are rogues. Their promises are 

 high colored, but the products are just the other 

 way. A good list of roses for a quiet country home 

 would be, of June flowering varieties, Crimson 

 Rambler, Cabbage, Mad. Plantier, Yellow Ram- 



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