fa<5t that they are unHke any other green foliaged 

 plant is in itself a lure to those of us who love 

 to colledt garden jewels. 



^ Realizing, and 1 know you do realize, what a 

 wealth of treasure we have to draw upon, there can 

 be no reason for any garden being commonplace 

 or void of beautiful varieties. When we consider 

 how easy it is to have a beautiful garden, how 

 easily it is maintained all through the months 

 from early Spring to fro^t, we should indeed value 

 and see that our floral beauties are properly 

 planted and conscientiously cared for. 

 ^ Gardening is now so finished an art, an art of 

 which every phase is ^udied with such minute care, 

 with such deep intere^ and intelligence, that 

 "the haphazard garden" has become a relic of 

 the pa^t. And the intense intere^ in gardening 

 exiting to-day, is not surprising, when we appre- 

 ciate and know, as we do, the sincerity of what 

 has been written years ago, a great many years 

 ago, that " The cultivation of flowers is of all 

 the amusements of mankind the one to be seledted 

 and approved as the mo^ innocent in itself, and 

 mo^ perfectly devoid of injury or annoyance to 

 others; the employment is not only conducive to 



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