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In getting' a refusal, you should have 
a binder. This is a simple document for 
the owner or agent to sign in which he 
acknowledges the payment of a small sum 
(perhaps from five to twenty dollars, as 
the case may be) for which consideration 
he agrees to give a refusal of the prop¬ 
erty in question for a specified time and 
that in case you decide to take the prop- 
ertv at the end of said time the deposit 
shall be considered as a part of the pur¬ 
chase price. Do not, however, commit 
vourself in writing or otherwise to the 
price asked, as you may find before you 
are through with your investigations that 
such is too high. 
While your lawyer is drawing up the 
deed, try and ascertain from the abutting 
property holders if the existing bounds 
are right; if so, they should be willing to 
sign a plan, and it would be well to get a 
surveyor to make a simple outline plot 
and get the abutters to sign it, to the effect 
that the bounds as shown on the plan 
where abutting their property are correct. 
Use a dark ink for signature and sign the 
list yourself to show your good faith. 
Take a couple of blueprints and file the 
original tracing in the proper place with 
the record of the deed. Having done this 
job thoroughly is the best start toward a 
home. 
And now you are ready to take up the 
more serious consideration of practical 
restoration as a property holder. 
A Garden of Annuals 
{Continued from page 32) 
other and many of them are supremely 
beautiful. If the “stand” is even tolerably 
good, it is astonishing how much garden 
space five cents’ worth of flower seed can 
be made to cover with lovely bloom. Try 
it, say, with the white petunia or the 
African marigold and see what a wonder¬ 
worker a single nickel may be. Not that 
the nickel should be regarded as the basis 
for buying annuals. Novelties and the 
better strains of favorite kinds frequently 
cost a dime. They are cheap at that; so 
are the fancy offerings at a quarter a 
package. Generally speaking, the best 
seed should never be regarded as too good. 
In the end it is the cheapest and, as a rule, 
when named varieties or separate colors 
are desired it is necessary to go above the 
minimum price. 
While the cost in money is not. or need 
not be, much to reckon with, the cost in 
pains is considerable. The time spent in 
this labor of love may be reduced to mo¬ 
ments of leisure that are not missed, but 
there must be a liberal expenditure of in¬ 
telligence. Easy as it looks to be, and is, 
the garden of annuals has to be thought 
out like any other garden — planned, plant¬ 
ed and cultivated with the same degree of 
common sense; which is the prime essen¬ 
tial in the cultivation of flowers. 
The planning will be found least irk¬ 
some if done betimes and on cross-ruled 
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