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GARDENING BY MYSELF. 



but I have come nearer to it with these 

 seedlings than with any I ever had. And 

 they do their best. 



DAHLIA RINGS. 



I beHeve it is one of the characteristics 

 of Fairyland, that things start up in unex- 

 pected ways and places. One does not ex- 

 pect to pluck kindness from a frozen gera- 

 nium, nor to have interest and sympathy 



