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with all respect, and they will pay you 

 well. 



There are many common garden bulbs 

 and tubers, quite hardy, that may be left un- 

 stirred from year to year — indeed do best 

 so. The daffodil, of blessed childhood me- 

 mory, with the Poet's narcissus and Orange 

 Phonis of the same family, and Double 

 White and Incomparable. Then there are 

 peonies — great masses of colour or of white- 

 ness ; and dicentra ; and amaryllis longi- 

 flora, a very fine hardy bulb. In fact, / 

 always want every thing I can get ! — and 

 some that I can not. 



