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must know the merits of all new and old varieties, 
and be as progressive as is the successful man in any 
other line of business. I know of nothing so inter¬ 
esting as watching the growth and development of 
some new and improved variety that has been recom¬ 
mended to the gardening public in the most glowing 
terms, and often in glowing colors on a beautiful col¬ 
ored plate. Although I have been “ taken in ” fully 
as often as the average gardener of my experience, I 
have been many times repaid all trouble and outlay 
by the numerous successes that I have met with and 
the great improvement in some of the varieties 
grown. Sometimes I have made quite a nice little 
sum out of these novelties, when I have been able to 
sell the selected seed of the new variety to some other 
seedsman or to my neighbors. In these new varieties, 
more than in any others, do you need to order early, 
or, instead of the seed that you desire and which is 
to make reputation and money for you, “ being some¬ 
thing superior to anything ever grown before,” you 
may get one of those provoking little slips stating 
that the seedsman “ regrets to inform you that, owing 
to the great demand, the supply is exhausted for this 
season, and hopes that the substituted kind will do 
as well.” 
HOTBEDS AND COLD FRAMES. 
With a garden of this size I would have hotbeds, 
cold frames and rich seed beds of fine light soil; 
these I would not have in the garden itself unless 
that be the most convenient place. W T here there is 
time to attend to them, they will be a measure of 
