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should never yield pecuniary returns 

 much beyond expenditures he has set 

 an example valuable beyond dollars — 

 in rest, through work, in the nearness 

 to nature, and in the altruistic occupa- 

 tion of planting trees for future genera- 

 tions. 



These experiments have attracted 

 the attention of many people promin- 

 ent in science, literature and states- 

 manship. Merribrooke has been a re- 

 sort for many famous men. One is 



of Colloredo-Mannsfeld was so much 

 interested in Dr. Morris's work that, 

 after his return to Austria, he laid out 

 a new avenue through one of his towns 

 (Opocno), bordered the street with 

 hickories, and named it "Morris Ave- 

 nue." I lundreds of years hence people 

 may wonder what warrior it was 

 whose name is borne by the avenue, 

 to learn perhaps that it was only 

 an unassuming cultivator of nut- 



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THE ISLAND IN THE RIVER AT THE FOOT OF THE GARDEN. 



likely to meet Irving Bacheller, or 

 Ernest Thompson-Seton, or Dr. Wil- 

 liam J. Long in the bridle paths. Mr. 

 Cleveland enjoyed fishing in the 

 stream, and valued the quiet surround- 

 ings of the farmhouse, at times when 

 he was pondering over grave questions 

 of state. It is said that a dinner of 

 pork and beans and pumokin pie was 

 given to a Japanese Admiral who was 

 weary of elaborate entertainment 

 in the city, and who personally in- 

 structed the superintendent's wife in 

 the proper cooking of rice. The Prince 



During his trips abroad in attend- 

 ance on the meetings of various medi- 

 cal societies. Dr. Morris al^o visits the 

 horticultural exhibitions, and brings 

 back ideas quite as valuable as those 

 that relate more nearly to Ids profes- 

 sional work. His trips have thus a 

 double interest, lie is in correspond- 

 ence with hundreds of scientific men in 

 all parts of the world, and in this way 

 is enabled to obtain nut-trees and in- 

 formation about them which is not 

 commonly known to botanists nor to 

 horticulturists. 



