34 THE GOLD MINE 



sitting room and a $25 mirror is the thing and the 

 chamber suits must all be first class. 



Now the outdoor furnishing will cost something. A 

 beautiful silver spruce is $2.00, a silver cedar about the 

 same, choice tree lilacs are scarce and cannot be bought 

 for a song, choice sjringas and spires will be Avorth 

 25 to 50 cents apiece. Tulips will be $2 or $3 per 100. 

 You should have as many as that. You can get lots of 

 paconies for $10 per 100, but you had better pay $1 each 

 for a few choice ones. Remember you cannot get some- 

 thing for nothing. Do keep away from the bargain coun- 

 ter. There is nothing so expensive as cheap, poorly han- 

 dled nursery stock. You should begin right. You go into 

 that new house and home, and the moment you enter it 

 it begins to depreciate in value. Use your carpets and 

 furniture a year and they become second hand goods. 

 But it is not so with youT front yard. Every tree, 

 shrub and flower you plant is at work developing your 

 gold mine. You lay out $50 and it soon grows to $100. 

 If you want to raise poultry to sell, it is cheaper to pay 

 $2 per dozen for a choice strain of Plymouth Rocks or 

 Brown Leghorns than to pay 25 cents a dozen for eggs 

 from common fowls. You can get all the old fashioned 

 lilacs you want for 5 cents apiece, but you cannot get the 

 best kinds for that. You can get a common soft maple 

 for 25 cents, and it will grow to -be a tree. You will 

 have to pay $2 for a Schwedlerii purple leafed maple 

 whose crown in springtime will seem like a brilliant, 

 mammoth paeony outlined against the sky, but the lat- 

 ter will pay the best in the long run. 



