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new ones. The standard varieties will remain about 

 as they are, with a slight advance. The new or rare 

 sorts of especial merit will keep up at the present high 

 rate, or even advance, for thousands of people will be 

 found who will have the very best, and the high priced 

 ones will be as sure an investment as a poor man can 

 make. An invalid lady can engage with success in this 

 industry. If you go into carnations or roses you will 

 need costly green houses. If you wish to raise Paeo- 

 nies, which will be just as profitable, the directions in 

 this book will give you just as good a chance as the 

 millionaire has. There is probably no industry so im- 

 portant and profitable that can be carried on with such 

 little expense as this. You may be poor, with only 

 a little home and a small garden. You have a baby 

 girl, and you look forward to the time when she will 

 enter on womanhood, and shudder as you think she 

 will have nothing with which to begin life. Buy a 

 genuine Baroness Schroder, or Lady Alexander Duff, 

 or Marguerite Gerard; one good, strong root, and let 

 it grow, and take care of it. One thousand in ten years. 

 How many in twenty years ? A thousand multiplied 

 by a thousand. You would in fifteen years have enough 

 to retire on. This is not counting chickens before they 

 are hatched. There are no broken or addled eggs 

 among them, and they will grow for the poor man as 

 well as the rich. ^^The business may be overdone in 

 twenty years ;" then all the flower business will be 

 done for, and there will be no more call for carnations 

 or roses. Festiva Maxima for more than half a cen- 



