The Local Nursery Nurserymen generally are not finding times easy.
The small local nursery, with a trade at the mercy of a fluctuating popu- lation, faces the winter with hard prospects. How many other- wise keen gardeners, who spend hours over catalogues, ever pay the local nursery a visit? Personally I never yet paid a nursery man a visit without receiving a great deal of courtesy, help and pleasure; or without picking up one, sometimes half a dozen, of those invaluable gardening wrinldes which no books, and sometimes not even experience, can teach. The nursery- man's last gamble of the year, his chrysanthemums, are now in their glory. It is probably the richest single flower harvest of the year. I would urge every gardener to find his local grower, pay a call and look at this magnificence; to take down a dozen names, place a provisional order for spring cuttings and try his own hand next summer. Or he might give an order for flowers now—" for honest," a nurseryman said to me recently, "I'd be glad to sell you anything."
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