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elude a root of M. Jules Elie, for if he secures a root of 
good, clean stock it will probably give him a greater 
surprise than any other variety. Unfortunately there 
is a lot of worthless stock of this variety in the country 
so that it would be wise to select this variety from some 
grower’s garden while the plant is in bloom. If a new 
variety should be grown from seed with as much merit 
and individuality as M. Jules Elie, I am sure that 
$1,000.00 would be a very moderate price to pay for it. 
In purchasing these varieties he will find the prices 
so reasonable on all of them except Primevere that he 
can afford to purchase a full-sized one or two-year-old 
root, which should have four or more eyes, but the 
yellow variety will probably be quoted at $5.00 or more 
for a full-sized root. As a beginner he may not care 
to pay so much for one variety, in which case he will 
be perfectly justified in asking the grower to make him 
a price on a division with one or two eyes, which he can 
probably purchase for about a third of the price of the 
whole root. This division, if cut from a strong, healthy 
root, as all divisions should be, will, according to ex¬ 
perience in my garden, be just as large in three or four 
years as any other three or four-year-old plant of the 
same variety, even if the other plant started with six 
or a dozen eyes. 
Two or three years ago the growers were afraid 
to sell divisions but we are all wiser now, for as Mr. 
Farr says, “A strong root with one eye often is in¬ 
finitely better than a weak one with many.” T. C. 
Thurlow’s Sons give their approval to divisions by say¬ 
ing, “Undoubtedly they will eventually bloom as well 
as larger plants, just as a colt will eventually do as 
much work as a fully grown horse, but we must wait 
