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The second post was on the table, and the girl stopped short in the midst of a message from the seedsman, for a deep black-edged envelope, addressed to herself, caught her eye. Mrs. Markham observed her with furtive anxiety.

"But they don't always tell," objected Della, who had been looking over several. "That's because the seedsmen sell to people all over the country people living in all sorts of climates and with all sorts of soils. The best way is to ask the seedsman where you buy your seeds to indicate on the package or in a letter what the sowing time should be for our part of the world."

The exploration of the Sikhim Himalaya by the accomplished botanist, Hooker recorded in a book of travels not inferior to that of the great Humboldt had drawn attention to the rich and varied flora of these mountains; and in consequence of this, the enterprising "seedsman" who had given Karl Linden temporary employment in his garden, promoted him to a higher and more agreeable field of labour, by sending him as a "plant-hunter" to the Thibetan Himalayas.

It is ours to chronicle the story of an humble expedition of this kind the adventures of a young plant-hunter, the employe of an enterprising "seedsman" well-known in the world's metropolis. Our scene lies in the very heart of the Himalayas in that district of them least explored by English travellers, though not the most distant from the Anglo-Indian capital, Calcutta.

For instance, we had in our garden plenty of onions three inches in diameter from these little sets, while the seed, sown at the same time, will not yield good bulbs before August. There is but little need of raising these sets, for it is rather difficult to keep them in good condition over the winter. Any seedsman will furnish them, and they are usually on sale at country stores.

The fields had been left uncultivated, weeds and gaudy flowers sprung up, or where a few wheat-fields shewed signs of the living hopes of the husbandman, the work had been left halfway, the ploughman had died beside the plough; the horses had deserted the furrow, and no seedsman had approached the dead; the cattle unattended wandered over the fields and through the lanes; the tame inhabitants of the poultry yard, baulked of their daily food, had become wild young lambs were dropt in flower-gardens, and the cow stalled in the hall of pleasure.

'It was a long while before the story of what they had gone through was known, but it was talked of in time, and they themselves laugh over it now; though what Jane got for her pains was no great bargain after all. 'Tis true she saved her name. 'Was that the same Andrey who went to the squire's house as one of the Christmas fiddlers? asked the seedsman. 'No, no, replied Mr.

Quitting this situation he lived for some years as gardener in several considerable families: after which he established himself in London as a seedsman; and has ever since followed that business with unremitting diligence and success.

Or he may contract with a seedsman to grow seed of the new variety for sale to the trade. It may be said, further, that new varieties may be produced by placing the pollen from the flowers of one plant upon the pistils in the flowers of another and then covering the plant with fine gauze to keep insects out.

The private and personal motive of the seedsman in procuring and using these tools may be avarice, ambition, a religious belief in the saving efficacy of nursery keeping or a simple passion for bettering flowers, that does not affect the definite final purpose of his outfit of tools.