This section is from the book "The Gardener's Monthly And Horticulturist V25", by Thomas Meehan. See also: Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long.
A lady receives a box of flowers which she ordered from a nurseryman, and finds therein a card telling her that though the flowers are very nice, she would have done better if she had gone to---------, for her purchases - naming a rival in business, of the other firm. The lady sends the card back to her florist, with a kind letter of admonition. All of these papers have been placed in our hands. The nurseryman thinks his rival has hired some express hand to write these cards and slip them in his boxes. The card is certainly written on just such paper as is in use at express offices, and the handwriting just such as is familiar to business men. It does look as if our correspondent's suspicion is correct. We should fancy, however, that no harm would result from such meanness. No honorable lady or gentleman, would take their trade away from a fair-dealing person, by such a transparent trick as that.
 
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