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raise a thousand seedlings, and there will he no two 

 exactly alike. 



What shall be done with the thousands of rejected 

 ones ? We have too many named ones already, about 

 two thousand. Shall wei throw them away? By no 

 means. If you had never seen a Paeony and were intro- 

 duced to the thousand left behind, you would call them 

 fine flowers, and so they are. In the hosts of these 

 common, ones I never saw a really poor one. They 

 are all good, but there are the better and the best. I 

 would say keep them. They can be used for parks 

 and in masses. Put them on your cheap list and clas- 

 sify them in colors. There are many people who in- 

 sist that a "piny" is a "piny,'' and that is all there 

 is of it, and they will insist that you keep a "bargain 

 counter," for they think they are terribly cheated if 

 they have to pay more than twenty-five cents for a 

 "piny." They are much like the young darkey who, 

 by mistake, got a license to marry Lucinda, when he 

 had agTeed to marry Katie. It would cost him some- 

 thing to get a new license. He proved equal to the 

 occasion, "Dere ain't no $1.75 difference between dem 

 two niggers, and I'll just marry Lucinda." 



W^e are glad to note cheering success in originating; 

 new varieties in America. We need to go in on a larger 

 scale. Mr. Kelway, of England, and Mr. Terry, of 

 Iowa, have given us over 100 each. The main differ- 

 ence between them is, Kelway has used the most ink. 

 I think Terry has never photographed one of his grand 

 creations. We are happy, however, to present some 



