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the arbutus, and one after another the ladies' slippers, the pink, 

 and the white and the yellow, the pink and white being varieties 

 of the same thing and the yellow a distinct species, and then 

 best of all that great showy ladies' slipper, which is almost as 

 good as a chrysanthemum, standing two or three feet high, 

 found so abundantly in the arbor vitae swamps above Houlton, 

 and found within a few minutes' ride of Waterville so I have 

 filled a tub to the great surprise of every one who never 

 imagined anything like that could be found within easy reach 

 of Waterville. Then that little dainty orchid, the calypso, or 

 the calypso spectabilis, that also, a rare, dainty, beautiful orchid, 

 grows in the cedar swamps, within a few minutes' drive of the 

 central part of the city of Waterville, and it grows also in the 

 vicinity of Oakland and other places in the State. 



So that we have with us, if we will but look for them, abund- 

 ant plants and flowers to reward all our search and all our study. 



I will not detain you with even the abstract of all that I had 

 thought to say, but simply say that I thank you for your atten- 

 tion at this time of the evening, and I believe that any one whose 

 heart is once opened to the sweet influences of nature will find 

 a growing fondness for everything that God has made, and will 

 find his own life enriched, his own thought enriched, his own 

 happiness enriched, will find it a great delight and pleasure to 

 become more and more intimate, as he may by careful study 

 and by actual observation with everything bright and beautiful 

 about him in nature. The very plants will preach to him 

 sermons of life and death and resurrection, will bring him hope 

 and cheer in hours of disappointment and sadness, and will 

 make him glad that he lives in a world so beautiful, glad that 

 the One that made this world so beautiful for us may make 

 another world even more beautiful for us in the life to come, 

 glad that there is to be a resurrection from death, glad that this 

 life does not end all, but that an immortality awaits us all, 

 prophesied so plainly in seed, in bulb, in plant, in the resurrec- 

 tion of all nature in the spring time, another step simply, sowing 

 in sadness and reaping in gladness. 



