The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . Onion,Lettuce,Radish,Sweet Feas^Etc. Correspondenc* There is no optimist like the seeds-man, for no bagman has such storesto unfold. We are not asked to buylightning-conductors or insurance poli-cies against days of woe, but to buybanners for a well-assured season ofjoy. For we find no room in a realseed list for those lugubrious pagessome unknowing merchants give us ofslug poisons, aphide brushes and otherapparatus of strife. We buy suchthings of the ironmonger or chemist,and we prepare for the reading, of/theflower lists that
The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade . Onion,Lettuce,Radish,Sweet Feas^Etc. Correspondenc* There is no optimist like the seeds-man, for no bagman has such storesto unfold. We are not asked to buylightning-conductors or insurance poli-cies against days of woe, but to buybanners for a well-assured season ofjoy. For we find no room in a realseed list for those lugubrious pagessome unknowing merchants give us ofslug poisons, aphide brushes and otherapparatus of strife. We buy suchthings of the ironmonger or chemist,and we prepare for the reading, of/theflower lists that contain them by tear-ing them out. It is impossible to learn from thesebright pages what are the favorite flow-ers of him who prepared them. Heseems to reserve the superlatives ofpraise for each of them, though onclose attention his words ate but plainstatements of the uijique merits ofeach. Every genus Of-flowers and al-most every species has its method offlowering, its texture of petal, its qual-ity of color, and even its own tintsthat no other group shares. There isevery kind of lateral difference, but nomore
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