TEN] AMONG THE FLOWERS 
wherever a strawberry bed has been, even twenty 
years before — in gardens or in grass. They will do 
no harm, but will glorify your property, while you 
will be able to pick them by the armful. This is 
the way to have all that you can want of this mag- 
nificent flower, all that you can admire, and all that 
you can give away. Besides, you can sell or give 
away the bulbs by the hundred, and start an honest 
tulip mania all around the town. If this chapter 
does no other good than to teach you how to grow 
tulips easily, and enough of them, it will be quite 
enough to repay me for writing it. 
A good collection of roses is much more rare 
than it ought to be. I am afraid that this is be- 
cause growers confuse buyers with indiscriminate 
praise of hundreds of sorts, most of which need 
special culture. It is also in part due to the fact 
that we cannot cure country people of the habit of 
entertaining agents and buying their extraordinary 
and impossible offerings. As a rule, these peri- 
patetic peddlers are rogues. Their promises are 
high colored, but the products are just the other 
way. A good list of roses for a quiet country home 
would be, of June flowering varieties, Crimson 
Rambler, Cabbage, Mad. Plantier, Yellow Ram- 
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