HIS RULING PASSION.
"The man who doesn't advertise is lost," is an axiom in which a certain seedsman has evidently a profound belief.
This gentleman, if not absolutely mean, is terribly close in his habits, but when asked by some ladies who were arranging a flower service at a local place of worship to contribute some blooms for decorative purposes he, rather to their surprise, replied that he would be very pleased to give them on condition that the scheme of arrangement was left to himself. To this the ladies willingly agreed, and left the key of the church with the seedsman, who promised to cut and arrange the flowers on the Simday morning. He kept his word. His were by far the best blooms in the church. But the text he had chosen was, in the opinion of the worshippers .generally, and of the begging ladies in particular, hardly so appropriate to the place and occasion as it might have been. In white roses on a scarlet geranium background were the words: "Try Simmond's Penny Seed Packets."
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 2
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178HIS RULING PASSION. Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4, 5 January 1903, Page 2
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