IT SEEM.^ TO MLIE 



T seems to me if we do not wish to be sub- 

 jected again and again to the disappointments 

 we have experienced this Spring because of 

 a shortage of roses, which as you probably 

 know is due to the enactment of the law 

 prohibiting their importation it behooves us 

 Amateur Gardeners to be up and doing. 

 This law might not have worked so much — / think I can say 

 hardship — had we Gardeners been able well in advance to 

 prepare for the inevitable shortage of many of the more fav- 

 ored varieties. Naturally it is not only roses that have been 

 difficult to obtain, but many other desirable garden beautify- 

 ing plants. The remedy? Well, it seems to me that it might 



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