[Artemisia] A word about merchants & flowers

[Lady Flora]

Dearest Mistress Constance - 

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement.  We are humbly flattered.   

I also thank you for the information concerning roses and strawberries.  I
also know that planting garlic around the bases of your peach and almond
trees will help keep beetle and borers out of the wood and roots of the
trees.  The same is true for planting marigolds (the American kind, not the
English) along your vegetable garden paths.  The scent and taste of
marigolds is very unpleasant to a lot of pesky critters.

YIS
Lady Flora
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