. Let's make a flower garden. Floriculture. K!!)S^^ TT'VER since I was a little girl I've hoped each •*—^ spring some nice old uncle from India would send me fifty dollars accompanied by a gruesome threat, such as: " If you use one cent of this money for anything but roses, the first night the east wind blows, a blackbird will come along and nip off your nose!" But as it hasn't really happened yet, I have to pretend along the last part of April or first of May that it is about to happen, and start to work with pencil and greediness to select the fifty dollars' worth. As the days go b
. Let's make a flower garden. Floriculture. K!!)S^^ TT'VER since I was a little girl I've hoped each •*—^ spring some nice old uncle from India would send me fifty dollars accompanied by a gruesome threat, such as: " If you use one cent of this money for anything but roses, the first night the east wind blows, a blackbird will come along and nip off your nose!" But as it hasn't really happened yet, I have to pretend along the last part of April or first of May that it is about to happen, and start to work with pencil and greediness to select the fifty dollars' worth. As the days go by, merging joyous make- beUeve into saddening reality, my list is lopped, rose by rose, until some desperate night I finally make a neat list of the can't-possibly-be-lived-without roses (numbering perhaps only fifteen) and meekly send it off to the rosarian. It is so hard to advise another just what roses to 69. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original VerBeck, Hanna (Rion) Mrs. 1875-. New York, McBride, Nast & company
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