Most of the Sequoias, however, are of so gigantic a size that the seedsmen have to look for the greater portion of their supplies to the Douglas, who soon learns he is no match for these freebooters.

He is wise enough, however, to cease working the instant he perceives them, and never fails to embrace every opportunity to recover his burs whenever they happen to be stored in any place accessible to him, and the busy seedsman often finds on returning to camp that the little Douglas has exhaustively spoiled the spoiler.

A visit to the seedsman's procured the necessary surreptitious poppy seed; and so now poor Sir Goldfish sleeps with the seed of sleep in his mouth, and the children watch his grave day by day, breathless for his resplendent resurrection.

Nurserymen, Seedsmen, AND Landscape Gardeners MILFORD NURSERIES, MILFORD, Near GODALMING.

May be obtained from the principal Nurserymen, Seedsmen, Florists, and Chemists, or direct of Wm.

" "We'll send for some seedsmen's catalogues and order a lot.

They were prudent about planting directly in the garden seeds which did not require forcing in the house, for they did not want them to be nipped, but they put them in the ground just as early as any of the seedsmen recommended, though they always saved a part of their supply so that they might have enough for a second sowing if a frost should come.

They had gathered together all the seedsmen's catalogues that had been sent them and they had also accumulated a pile of garden magazines.

I suppose these small ones must be the original pinks that the seedsmen have burbanked into the big double ones.

"That's because the seedsmen sell to people all over the countrypeople 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.

"There are some new kinds that will blossom the first year, the seedsmen promise.

A seedsman had given them a liberal supply of seeds to sell on commission, agreeing to take back all that were not sold and to contribute one per cent.

There stands the stone "Erected by James Russell, seedsman, Ayr, in memory of his children,"three little boys, James, and Thomas, and John, all snatched away from him in the space of three successive summer-days, and lying under the matted grass in the shadow of the old witch-haunted walls.

It was Burns's Alloway Kirk we paid for, and we find we have bought a share in the griefs of James Russell, seedsman; for is not the stone that tells this blinding sorrow of real life the true centre of the picture, and not the roofless pile which reminds us of an idle legend?

First, of course, the modern farmer paid his landlord (1); next he paid the seedsman (2); then the manure manufacturer (3); the implement manufacturer (4); the auctioneer (5); the railroad, for transit (6); the banker, for short loans (7); the lawyer or whoever advanced half his original capital (8); the schoolmaster (9).

It was the same with the artificial manure merchant and with the seedsman.

Now the seedsman was an important person, and a grand shop might be found, often several shops, in every market town, the owners of which shops must likewise live upon the farmer.

The seedsman requires permission to somewhat shift his stall; wherever is the secretary?

A respectable seedsman who lived in Pall-Mall was the first who prepared it in this state for sale.

Thus Briant, in his Flora Diaetetica, enumerates fourteen varieties, a few only of which bear the same name as those now in the list of the London seedsmen.