AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



Of course it would be difficult to make lan- 

 guage stronger than this, and what does it mean ? 

 It means that if I send these gentlemen I2.50 for 

 a dozen choice Gladiolus bulbs, and they think 

 best to send me common bulbs or even plain 

 ordinary onions in their place, under the terms 

 of the sale I can have no redress whatever. 



These seedsmen may, and do, make the most 

 extravagant claims for their goods, yet they tell 

 you at the same time that they will not and do 

 net warrant one single word of it to be true. 

 You are to understand, also, that these terms are 

 not mere matters of form. I ordered from a repu- 

 table house an ounce of the seed of the early sum- 

 mer-blooming Cosmos, and the package which they 

 forwarded to me, to the best of my knowledge, 

 did not contain a single seed of the variety I had 

 paid for. All were of the common, cheaper, late- 

 blooming variety, absolutely worthless to me. I 

 reported the matter to the dealers, but they have 

 never offered to return the money I had paid 

 to them. 



It is only fair to say that all seedsmen do not 

 attempt to run their business on such extraordi- 

 nary terms. Here is what one grower says: "We 

 guarantee that all seeds are First-Class, True, and 



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