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tS the love of flowers is innate in children, we shall endeavor to bring into notice some of the simple and pretty 

 things which can be giown by them without much trouble, and tend not only to make the garden cheerful, but 

 foster in the child-mind the love of home and the beautiful in nature. The newest seeds and plants will not 

 give them half the pleasure they can obtain from such old favorites as Candytuft, Poppies, Marigolds and Zinnias, 

 from which tiiey can gather an abundance of bloom and thereby receive compensation for their labor. 



" Spring has come again, and I have nothing for my garden. My tools are 

 lost, and tiie mice have eaten all the seed I had left. I don't break all my things, 

 but I lose them somewhere and don't know where to look for them. Tom says 

 I make him ma<l because I hai-e to use his tools when I can't find mine, and I 

 forget to clean them and put them away, and he says he is going to tell father; 

 but I know he won't, because he don't stay mad long with me and he'll forget 

 all about it. I'm going to ask father to buy me some of Mr. Dreer's tools and 

 seeds, because all my seeds that came from him grew first-rate and the tools 

 did not break. I Imd one of his little seed frames last year and I put it in the 

 kitchen window and filled it with seed, which came up tliick, but the plants all 

 died because I forgot to water them. Wasn't that too bad? But I'm going to 

 try again this year and have my plants early and not forget to water them." 



THE BEST VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



We shall send out in our children's packages just as large a quantity and the 

 same quality as in our regular packets, and shall, as far as possible, do our 

 part to make their gardens pretty and successful. Directions for growing each 

 kind are printed on 

 the packets, and on 

 pages 5 and 6 will be 

 found all the informa- 

 tion necessary for suc- 

 cessfully raising their 

 seeds. 

 Collection No. 1. Scarlet Turnip Radish, Boston 



Market Lettuce, Bastian's Turnip Beet, Danvers Carrot, 



Nichols' Cucumber, Paragon Tomato. 25 cts. 



Collection No. 2. Golden Wax Beans, Eclipse Beet, 



Wakefield Cabbage, Early Horn Carrot, Cory Corn, Nieh- 



■ols' Cucumber, Boston Market Lettuce, Long Scarlet Radish, 



Hanson Lettuce, Ojjtimus Tomato. 50 cts. 



Collection No. 3. Golden Wax Beans, Bastian's Tur- 

 nip Beet, Early Summer Cabbage, Danvers Carrot, Stabler's 



Extra Early Corn, White Spine Cucumber, Black Seeded 



Simpson Lettuce, Salamander Lettuce, Baltimore Musk 



Melon, Strasburg Onion, Lightning Peas, Telephone Peas, 



Wood's Early Frame Radish, Scarlet Turnip Radish, Long 



Standing Spinach, Brazilian Sugar Squash, Mikado Tomato, 



Thyme, Sage. .?] .00. 



Collection No. 4. Red Valentine Beans, Golden Wax 



Beans, Bastian's Turnip Beet, Early Wakefield Cabbage, 



Early Half-Long Carrot, Albany Corn, Cory Corn, Nichols' 



Cucumber, Boston Market Lettuce, Silver Ball Lettuce, Bay 



View Melon, Silver Skin Onion, Dreer's Eureka Peas, 



American Wonder Peas, Scarlet Turnip Radish, Long Scar- 

 let Radish, Long Standing Sfiinach, Brazilian Sugar 



Squash, Red Mikado Tomato, Sage, Thyme, Sweet Mar- 

 joram, Summer Savory. .$1.50. 

 (150) 



' My Beans are Growing Splendid.' 



