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advice as to the resumption of specie payment — 

 to organize ! In other words, to get right down 

 to business and give the proposed society a start 

 by bringing flower-loving people together, and 

 beginning to work without wasting time on un- 

 necessary details. If you make use of much 

 " red tape " you will kill the undertaking at the 

 outset. Simply form your society and appoint 

 your committees, and you will find that the 

 various matters which perplex you when looked 

 at in the whole will readily adjust themselves to 

 the conditions that arise as the society goes on 

 with its work. Put theories aside, and do some- 

 thing ^ and you will find very little difficulty in 

 making your society successful if you can secure 

 a dozen really interested persons as members. 

 I would be glad to know that such a society ex- 

 isted in every community. 



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I would advise my readers never to have any- 

 thing to do with plant-peddlers. Of course it is 

 possible for the man who goes about the country 

 with plants for sale to be as honest as any other 

 man, but we see so few indications of the posses- 

 sion of honest principles by the majority of these 

 men that we have come to consider them all 



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