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in the borders in the house. You must do the same. You 

 thereby save the expense of the pots and the labor of potting. 

 I must charge you forty cents each for them. You had 

 best not fake a great many, but let it go till next year. In 

 the spring you can have all you want for six cents each." 



" I will take a hundred, at any rate. If the ten buds 

 that are on them now bring four cents each, I shall get my 

 money back." 



"You will do more than that, I am sure." But come 

 into the plant-house and see my heliotrope." 



Going into the plant-house (which is the name of the style 

 of house we had seen at Mr. Clockwell's, and also the style in 

 which I was building my own), he showed me a quantity of 

 young heliotrope plants in three-inch pots. 



" These are quite small, in fact mere rooted cuttings; yet 

 I advise you to take them. They will not flower so soon as 

 larger ones, but you can have them very cheap, not more 

 than ten dollars a hundred, if you take several hundred. 

 There are few flowers that will give you a better return. 

 There are some larger ones in six-inch pots. They are just 

 showing flower. They are worth sixteen dollars a hundred. ' ' 



" Then I will compromise and take part of each, one. 

 hundred at sixteen and three hundred at ten dollars." 



After again thanking him for his kindness, I started 

 to walk to Mr. Clockwell's. I had brought some luncheon 

 in my pocket, and, taking it out, ate it on the road as I 

 walked along. A more delightful lunch I never had. The 



