THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 1 3 



widespread interest in plants and in gardening there is so little interest in 

 Botany, at least in Botany as a profession. We may well devote our next 

 fifty years to this and allied problems. 



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