89.--_The Primrose Puzzle._

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Select the name of any flower that you think suitable, and that contains

eight letters. Touch one of the primroses with your pencil and jump over

one of the adjoining flowers to another, on which you mark the first

letter of your word. Then touch another vacant flower, and again jump

over one in another direction, and write down the second letter. Continue

this (taking the letters in their proper order) until all the letters

have been written down, and the original word can be correctly read round

the garland. You must always touch an unoccupied flower, but the flower

jumped over may be occupied or not. The name of a tree may also be

selected. Only English words may be used.

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