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very beautiful, but not quite so common as we might 

 wish ; we have to look for it. Thoreau says, after 



finding this calla 

 in a certain lo- 

 cality near Con- 

 cord : " Having 

 found this in one 

 place, I now find 

 it in another. 

 Many an object 

 is not seen, 

 though it falls within the range of 

 our visual ray, because it does not 

 come within the range of our intel- 

 lectual ray. So in the largest sense 

 we find only the world we look for." 

 „, ^ , This is in a great measure true re- 



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garding a search for certain wild 

 flowers. They are only to be seen on demand ! 

 Wild Sarsaparilla. The wild sarsaparilla, which nnist 

 Amiia iiudicauUs. not be mistaken for the true sarsa- 

 parilla of soda-water fame, is nevertheless often used 

 as a substitute for the officinal article. Its slender 

 roots, which run horizontally three or four feet in 

 every direction away from the stem, are as aromatic 

 as the mucilaginous twigs of the sassafras tree. But 

 every country boy knows all about sassafras and 



