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As a market flower, its great disadvantage is that, coming all at 

 once from almost all quarters, it gluts the markets and does not realise 

 its full value. But it always sells. Everybody has a soft spot for 

 it, and if nothing else would sell it, then it would be bought for its 

 exquisite scent. In provincial towns, where gluts are very unusual, 

 better prices are obtained than those of large central markets ; 

 but these are usually supplied from outlying villages and districts, 

 especially since the canny villager has ascertained that they have 

 a market value. His fathers would have scoffed at the idea, but 

 the villager to-day (like his father) is what circumstances have 

 made him. 



