--=5/6=, =7/6=,
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=25= " " " " " =5/6=
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=25= " " " " " =7/6=

For Collections of Half-hardy Annuals or Perennials, and Seeds of Plants
for Rockwork, &c., see BARR'S SEED GUIDE, _free on application_.

=BARR'S= Seed Guide, containing many useful notes on culture, which will
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=BARR'S= Catalogue of Hardy Perennials and Alpines, Ready in February,
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=BARR'S= Catalogue of Bulbs and Tubers for Spring Planting, Ready in
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=BARR'S= List of Autumn-flowering Bulbs, Ready 1st July, Free.

=BARR'S= Catalogue of Beautiful Daffodils, Ready in August, Free.

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11, 12 & 13, KING ST.,
COVENT GARDEN, LONDON
Nurseries--Long Ditton, Near Surbiton, Surrey.

[Sidenote: Corpulency and the Cure.]

"HOW STOUT YOU ARE GETTING."

There is too often a scarcely veiled reproach in that exclamation: "How
stout you are getting!" At any rate, the corpulent one is generally
sensitive on that point, and perhaps feels a reproach where none is
intended. Certain it is that to lose the _svelte_ symmetry of youth, to
broaden out, to "swell wisibly," as Sam Weller has it, and finally to
become "fat and scant of breath," is a process at once humiliating and
distressing, especially to those who possess that keen appreciation of
personal appearance which is a part of what is termed good breeding. There
is now, however, no excuse for those who have resigned themselves to carry
to the grave the rotund proportions of a Falstaff. The perusal of a little
book entitled "Corpulency and the Cure," by F. CECIL RUSSELL, has afforded
us not a little interest and instruction on a subject that has hitherto
received but superficial attention from the medical profession. Mr.
Russell has made the cure of obesity his life's study, and judging from
the record of his achievements--over a thousand grateful letters from his
patients a