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Chinese temples perched on distant sacred
mountains, + in wanterings through the
orchards, gardens, + cultivated fields of
that vast oriental country.

He sent in hundreds of shipments of living
cuttings + thousands of sacks filled
with seeds of the useful plants of the
countries through which he traveled,
with the result that there are now
growing in America fields + orchards +
avenues + hedges of Meyer's plants, which,
could he only have lived, would have
gladdened his heart + made him realize
in a tangible way what a great pioneer
work he was doing.

He came to this country a Hollander, a
gardener by profession, he became an
American citizen + he had given to this
land of his adoption a host of lasting
benefits."

Mary Green had been at a camp in
Maine, north of Bath, and told us of
the wonderful trees of that section _
[It?] seemed a nature love emblem is
awarded to all the girls who learn
ten sea things, twenty trees, thirty
flowers, + the summer stars and